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Section 112, The Public Elections Act, 2012
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(1) A person who– (a) forges or fraudulently defaces or knowingly
destroys the nomination papers of a
candidate or the list of endorsed candidates
of a political party;
(b) delivers to another person or authority to
whom nomination papers or lists of endorsed
candidates of political parties are required to
be delivered by this Act, a nomination paper
or list of endorsed candidates of a political
party knowing it to be forged;
(c) signs a nomination paper as a candidate in
more than one electoral area for the same
(d) signs a nomination paper consenting to be a
candidate at an election knowing that he is
ineligible to be or disqualified from being a
candidate at that election;
(e) forges or counterfeits or fraudulently defaces
or fraudulently destroys a ballot paper or an
official stamp or mark on a ballot paper;
(f) not being a person entitled to be in
possession of a ballot paper which has been
marked with an official stamp or mark has the
ballot paper in his possession;
(g) without lawful authority, supplies a ballot
paper to another person;
(h) fraudulently puts into a ballot box anything
other than the ballot paper which he is
authorised by law to put in it;
(i) without the authority of the Presiding Officer,
brings into or takes out of the polling station,
place of voting or place of election a ballot
paper;
(j) without lawful authority, destroys, takes,
opens or otherwise interferes with a ballot
box or packet or ballot papers then in use for
the purposes of the election;
(k) without lawful authority prints a ballot paper
or what purports to be or is capable of being
used as a ballot paper;
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Offences of
buying and
selling voter
cards.
Offences in
respect of
nomination
papers, ballot
papers, etc.
(l) without lawful authority removes election
material from a polling station before, during
or after an election;
(m) being authorised by the Electoral
Commission to print ballot papers prints more
than the number or quantity authorised by
the Commission;
(n) without lawful authority has in his
possession a ballot paper;
(o) without lawful authority destroys, takes,
opens, disposes of or otherwise interferes
with an election material in use or intended
to be used for the purposes of an election;
(p) for the purposes of an election,
manufactures, constructs, imports, has in his
possession, supplies or uses, or causes to
be manufactured, constructed, imported,
supplied or used, any appliance, device or
mechanism by which a ballot paper may be
extracted, affected or manipulated after
having been deposited in a ballot box during
polling at an election; or
(q) not being authorised to do so under this Act,
makes a mark on a ballot paper issued to a
person other than to himself,
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