Section 118, The Public Elections Act, 2012

(1) A person who, directly or indirectly in person orthrough another person on his behalf uses or threatens to use force, violence including sexual violence, restraint or material, physical or spiritual injury, harmful cultural practices, damage or loss, or any fraudulent device, trick or deception for the purpose of or on account of– (a) inducing or compelling a person to vote or not to vote for a particular candidate or political party at an election; Prevention of election by force, etc. Undue influence. No. 4 The Public Elections Act 2012 No. 4 The Public Elections Act 201270 71 (b) impeding or preventing the free exercise of the franchise of a voter; (c) inducing or compelling a person to refrain from becoming a candidate or to withdraw if he has become a candidate; or (d) impeding or preventing a person from being nominated as a candidate or from being registered as a voter, commits the offence of undue influence and is liable on conviction to a fine not less than three million leones or to imprisonment for a term not less than one year. (2) A person who induces, influences or procures any other person to vote in an election knowing that the person is not entitled to vote in that election commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not less than one million leones or to imprisonment for a term not less than one year. (3) A person who directly or indirectly by duress or intimidation impedes, prevents or threatens to impede or prevent a voter from voting commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not less than one million leones or to imprisonment for a term not less than one year. (4) A person who directly or indirectly by duress, intimidation or otherwise compels or induces a voter who has already voted at an election– (a) to inform him or any other person of the name of the candidate or political party for which the voter voted; or (b) to display the ballot paper on which the voter has marked his vote, one million leones or to imprisonment for a term not less than one