Acts and Regulations

E-3 - Elections Act

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Offences respecting corrupt practices
109Every person is guilty of a corrupt practice who does any of the following during an election:
(a) takes a ballot paper out of a polling station;
(b) without authority, intentionally destroys, takes, opens or otherwise interferes with a ballot box or a vote tabulation machine;
(c) without authority, intentionally destroys, takes or otherwise interferes with a list of electors;
(d) without authority, intentionally destroys, takes or otherwise interferes with equipment on which a list of electors or a record of who has voted is maintained or with the information on that equipment;
(e) being an election officer, places on a ballot paper a writing, number or mark with the intent that the elector to whom the ballot paper is to be or has been given may be identified by it; or
(f) attempts to commit any offence specified in this section.
1967, c.9, s.109; 2010, c.6, s.116
Offences respecting corrupt practice
109Every person who, during an election,
(a) takes a ballot paper out of a polling station,
(b) without authority destroys, takes, opens or otherwise interferes with a ballot box,
(c) being a deputy returning officer, places upon any ballot paper any writing, number, or mark with intent that the elector to whom the ballot paper is to be or has been given may be identified thereby, or
(d) attempts to commit any offence specified in this section,
is guilty of a corrupt practice.
1967, c.9, s.109