ELECTORAL ACT 2004 (NO. 51 OF 2004) - SECT 186 Offences relating to voting
ELECTORAL ACT 2004 (NO. 51 OF 2004) - SECT 186
Offences relating to voting
(1) A person must not, at or in connection with an election, directly or indirectly, personally or by any other person on his or her behalf (a) destroy a nomination form or ballot paper except in accordance with section 150 ; or(b) forge a ballot paper or utter a ballot paper knowing it to be forged; or(c) forge a declaration required by this Act or utter such a declaration knowing it to be forged; or(d) without authority, remove a ballot paper from a polling place; or(e) fraudulently deposit a ballot paper, or a paper purporting to be a ballot paper, in a ballot box used at the election; or(f) without authority, supply a ballot paper to a person to enable a person to vote at the election; or(g) without authority, take, open, destroy or interfere with a ballot box, declaration vote envelope, postal vote declaration envelope or ballot paper used or to be used at the election; or(h) make a statement, or give an answer to a question, referred to in section 110 which the person knows is false or misleading; or(i) impersonate an elector for the purpose of voting at the election; or(j) vote more than once at the election; or(k) having voted at the election, apply for another ballot paper in respect of the election; or(l) apply to vote under this Act in the name of a fictitious person or in the name of any other person, whether living or dead; or(m) deposit more than one ballot paper in a ballot box that is being used for the purposes of the election; or(n) vote at the election after having voted at an election in respect of another division held contemporaneously with the first-mentioned election.(2) A person who contravenes or fails to comply with subsection (1) is guilty of a crime, punishable on indictment under the Criminal Code .(3) Notwithstanding section 389 of the Criminal Code , a person who is convicted of a crime under subsection (2) is liable to a penalty of a fine not exceeding 300 penalty units or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months, or both.