{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:211","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Electoral Deception","number":"211","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/211/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART II — THE SPECIAL PART","book":"BOOK II — OFFENCES AGAINST THE INTERESTS OF THE STATE","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 9. — Offences Involving Public Elections"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"A person who, directly or through an intermediary, by deception or by any fraudulent means, causes another to refrain from voting, to cast an invalid ballot, or to alter his voting decision in any public election,","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/211/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":165,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/165/?article=211&paragraph=lead#article-211-lead"}]},{"id":"u2","number":"","text":"is guilty of electoral deception, a Class 1 petty offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 6 months and not more than 12 months, or a fine of 20,001 – 50,000 Nakfas, to be set in intervals of 2,500 Nakfas.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/211/#u2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":165,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/165/?article=211&paragraph=u2#article-211-u2"}]}],"caution":"English-language 2015 Ministry of Justice edition. Refworld catalogues this English expression as an unofficial translation; Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation."}