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SECTION 288

(1) Section 122-1 of the Penal Code shall apply against any person who: - registers on electoral registers using a false identity or who, during his registration, conceals any of the ineligibilities provided for under this law; - through false statements or certificates, registers himself unduly on an electoral register or who, through the same means, unduly registers or cancels the name of a citizen ; - upon losing his right to vote, participates in the poll ; - votes, either by virtue of a false registration or by using the name and capacity of other registered voters; - votes several times, following multiple registrations ; - charged during an election with receiving and counting the vote of citizens, subtracts, adds or modifies the ballot papers or includes a name that is not registered ; - through false information, slanderous statements or any other fraudulent acts, cancels or diverts votes or causes one or several voters to abstain from the vote ; - before or after the poll, failing to comply with legislative or regulatory provisions or through any other fraudulent act, violates secrecy of the poll, prejudices its fairness, breaches the conduct of the poll and modifies the results thereof ; - is found guilty of fraudulent acts in the issuance or production of certificates of registration or striking off from electoral registers ; - uses personal data contained in the electoral register for purposes other than elections ; - on polling day, with or without violence, is found to be the author or an accomplice of the stealing of a ballot box or any other election material. (2) Where the author of the offence or his accomplice is a public servant, in the sense of Section 131 of the Penal Code, he shall be liable to the penalties provided for under Section 141 of the Penal Code.
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