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CRIMINAL CODE 1899 - SECT 99

99 Voting if not entitled

(1) A person who votes at an election in the name of another person, including a dead or fictitious person, commits a misdemeanour.

Maximum penalty--2 years imprisonment.

(2) A person who votes at an election more often than the person is entitled to vote at the election commits a misdemeanour.

Maximum penalty--2 years imprisonment.

(3) A person who casts a vote at an election that the person knows the person is not entitled to cast commits a misdemeanour.

Maximum penalty--2 years imprisonment.

(4) A person who procures another person to vote at an election who, to the procurer's knowledge, is not entitled to vote at the election commits a misdemeanour.

Maximum penalty--2 years imprisonment.

(5) A person who, at an election for which voting is by post, attests the signature to a voting paper of a person who is, to the first person's knowledge, not entitled to vote at the election by way of the voting paper commits a misdemeanour.

Maximum penalty--2 years imprisonment.



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