Acts and Regulations

E-3 - Elections Act

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Offences regarding ballots
69Every one who
(a) forges, counterfeits, fraudulently alters, defaces or fraudulently destroys a ballot paper or a braille facsimile of a ballot paper or the initials of the election officer signed on the ballot paper or braille facsimile;
(b) without authority supplies a ballot paper or a braille facsimile of a ballot paper to any person;
(c) not being a person entitled under this Act to be in possession of official ballot paper or of any ballot paper, has any such official ballot paper or any ballot paper in his possession;
(d) fraudulently puts or causes to be put into a ballot box a paper other than the ballot paper that is authorized by this Act;
(e) fraudulently takes a ballot paper or a braille facsimile of a ballot paper out of the polling station;
(f) without due authority destroys, takes, opens or otherwise interferes with a ballot box or book or packet of ballot papers then in use for the purposes of the election;
(g) being an election officer, other than as authorized by this Act or the Chief Electoral Officer, puts his or her initials on a paper purporting to be or capable of being used as a ballot paper at an election;
(h) with fraudulent intent, prints any ballot paper or what purports to be or is capable of being used as a ballot paper at an election;
(i) being authorized by the returning officer or the Chief Electoral Officer to print the ballot papers for an election, prints more ballot papers than he or she is authorized to print;
(j) being an election officer, places on a ballot paper any 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;
(k) manufactures, constructs, imports into Canada, has in possession, supplies to any election officer, or uses for the purposes of an election, or causes to be manufactured, constructed, imported in Canada, supplied to any election officer, or used for the purposes of any election, any ballot box containing or including any compartment, appliance, device or mechanism by which a ballot paper may or could be secretly placed or stored therein, or having been deposited during polling, may be secretly diverted, misplaced, affected or manipulated; or
(l) attempts to commit any offence specified in this section;
is disqualified from voting at any election for a term of seven years thereafter and is guilty of an offence.
1967, c.9, s.69; 1987, c.6, s.21; 1990, c.61, s.38; 1998, c.32, s.53; 2010, c.6, s.56
Offences regarding ballots
69Every one who
(a) forges, counterfeits, fraudulently alters, defaces or fraudulently destroys a ballot paper or a braille facsimile of a ballot paper or the initials of the deputy returning officer signed thereon;
(b) without authority supplies a ballot paper or a braille facsimile of a ballot paper to any person;
(c) not being a person entitled under this Act to be in possession of official ballot paper or of any ballot paper, has any such official ballot paper or any ballot paper in his possession;
(d) fraudulently puts or causes to be put into a ballot box a paper other than the ballot paper that is authorized by this Act;
(e) fraudulently takes a ballot paper or a braille facsimile of a ballot paper out of the polling station;
(f) without due authority destroys, takes, opens or otherwise interferes with a ballot box or book or packet of ballot papers then in use for the purposes of the election;
(g) being a deputy returning officer fraudulently puts, otherwise than as authorized by this Act, his initials on the back of any paper purporting to be or capable of being used as a ballot paper at an election;
(h) with fraudulent intent, prints any ballot paper or what purports to be or is capable of being used as a ballot paper at an election;
(i) being authorized by the returning officer to print the ballot papers for an election, prints without authority more ballot papers than he is authorized to print;
(j) being a deputy returning officer, places upon any ballot paper, except as authorized by this Act, any writing, number or mark with intent that the elector to whom such ballot paper is to be, or has been, given may be identified thereby;
(k) manufactures, constructs, imports into Canada, has in possession, supplies to any election officer, or uses for the purposes of an election, or causes to be manufactured, constructed, imported in Canada, supplied to any election officer, or used for the purposes of any election, any ballot box containing or including any compartment, appliance, device or mechanism by which a ballot paper may or could be secretly placed or stored therein, or having been deposited during polling, may be secretly diverted, misplaced, affected or manipulated; or
(l) attempts to commit any offence specified in this section;
is disqualified from voting at any election for a term of seven years thereafter and is guilty of an offence.
1967, c.9, s.69; 1987, c.6, s.21; 1990, c.61, s.38; 1998, c.32, s.53