Palestinian Elections Law

PART VI: Electoral Offences

Art. 95: Offences against the freedom of electors

1. Any person who uses violence, or threatens to use it, against any other person to:
   
   1. Force or influence him or her to vote, or to abstain from voting for a particular candidate.
   2. Participate, or to refrain from participating, in any electoral gathering or meeting.
2. And any person who encourages or helps any other person to vote knowing that he or she lacks the qualification to vote.
3. And any person who obstructs or attempts to obstruct in any way the free exercise of the right to vote of any elector.
4. And any person who forces an elector in any way to reveal the content of his or her vote, or the name of the candidates for whom he or she has voted, has committed an offence and shall be punished with a penalty of, either or both, imprisonment not exceeding one year, and a fine not exceeding 1,000 Jordanian Dinars.

Art. 96: Bribery

1. Any person who gives, lends, offers, or commits him or herself to give, directly or indirectly, money or any other good to an elector in order to force him or her to vote in a specific manner, or to abstain from voting.
2. And any person who accepts or asks, directly or indirectly, for money or a loan, or any other good, for him or herself or for any other person, in order to vote in a specific manner, or to abstain from voting, or to influence any other person to vote in a specific manner, or to abstain from voting.

   Has committed an offence and shall be punished with a penalty of, either or both, imprisonment not exceeding 3 years, and a fine not exceeding 3,000 Jordanian Dinars.

Art. 97: Voting without qualification

1. Any person who receives or requests a ballot paper under the name of another person, whether dead, alive or fictitious.
2. And any person who shows or uses false documents to identify him or herself.
3. And any person who impersonnates another elector.
4. And any person who votes more than once in any polling station.
5. And any person who votes knowing that he or she is not entitled to vote

   Has committed an offence and shall be punished with a penalty of, either or both, imprisonment not exceeding one year, and a fine not exceeding 1,000 Jordanian Dinars.

Art. 98: Electoral material

1. Any person who moves, destroys, hides, or helps to move, destroy, or hide any electoral material described in this Law, without being authorized to do so by the Central Election Commission, or in infringement of the law.
2. And any person who prints, makes or prepares any electoral material described in this Law, without a written authorization of the Central Election Commission.

   Has committed an offence and shall be punished with a penalty of, either or both, imprisonment not exceeding one year, and a fine not exceeding 1,000 Jordanian Dinars.

Art. 99: Ballot papers and electoral protocols

1. Any person who falsifies or introduces false information into the electoral protocols and in the electors register described in this Law.
2. And any person who introduces or allows the introduction of ballot papers into a ballot box [under the name] of persons who have not voted or who do not exist.
3. And any person who intentionally includes false data in the nomination aplication, or in the publication of the list of candidates, or in the date of its submission or its registration.
4. And any person who hides, destroys, or damages any claim or appeal filed by a party or candidate under the provisions of this Law.
5. And any person who hides, destroys, or damages any nomination application of a party or candidate.

   Has committed an offence and shall be punished with a penalty of, either or both, imprisonment not exceeding one year, and a fine not exceeding 1,000 Jordanian Dinars.

Art. 100: Other offences

Any action, omission, or neglect of duty referring to any of the duties established by this Law and for which there is no penalty specified, shall be considered an offence punishable with a penalty of, either or both, imprisonment not exceeding 3 months, and a fine not exceeding 200 Jordanian Dinars.

Art. 101: Members of the election commissions and the staff [of the electoral administration]

If the person who commits any of the offences defined in this Part of the Law is the President or a member of any of the election commissions, or a employee of the administrative organs subject to these commissions, or any other person charged with the conduct of any official function under the provisions of this Law, he or she shall be punished with a penalty of, either or both, imprisonment not exceeding 3 years, and a fine not exceeding 3,000 Jordanian Dinars.

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