What penalties are envisioned for offences related to electoral fraud?

Uganda

Uganda

Answer
Both fine and imprisonment
Source

PART XI (ILLEGAL PRACTICES) & XII (OTHER ELECTIONOFFENCES) of the parliamentary Elections Act of 2005.

Art68-83

http://aceproject.org/ero-en/regions/africa/UG/uganda-parliamentary-elections-act-2005/view

 

69.  Procuring prohibited persons to vote

A person who votes orinduces or procures any person to vote at an election, knowing that he or sheor that person is prohibited by law from voting at that election, commits anillegal practice.

 

76.  Offences relating to voting

A person who—

(a) forges or fraudulently defaces or destroys any documentrelating to the holding of an election, or alters any such document or deliversto the returning officer any document, knowing it to be forged;

 

(b) forges, counterfeits or destroys any ballot paper or theofficial mark on any ballot paper;

 

(c) without authority supplies any ballot paper to any person;

 

(d) without authority sells or offers to sell any documentrelating to the holding of an election to any person or purchases or offers topurchase any such document from any person;

 

(e) not being a person entitled under this Act to be in possessionof any document relating to the holding of an election, has any such documentin his or her possession;

 

(f) knowingly and intentionally puts into a ballot box anythingother than the ballot paper which he or she is authorised to put in;

 

(g) without authority, takes out of a polling station any ballotpaper or other official document relating to an election or is found inpossession of any ballot paper or such document outside a polling station;

 

(h) without due authority, destroys, takes, opens, or otherwiseinterferes with a ballot box, ballot documents or other property in use orintended to be used for the purpose of an election;

 

(i) without due authority, prints any ballot paper or whatpurports to be or is capable of being used as a ballot paper at an election; or

 

(j) not being authorised so to do under this Act makes any mark ona ballot paper issued to a person, other than the person making the mark, withintent that the ballot paper shall be used to record the vote of that otherperson,

 

commits an offenceand is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred and twentycurrency points or imprisonment not exceeding five years or both.

 

77.  Unauthorised voting or voting more than once;

 

A person who knowingly—

(a) votes at an election at which that person is not entitled tovote; or

(b) votes more than once at an election,

 

commits an offenceand is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred and twentycurrency points or imprisonment not exceeding five years or both.

 

78.  Making wrong returns of an election

 

An election officer, or other person having any duty to perform inrelation to an election who—

 

(a) makes in any record, return or other document which he or sheis required to keep or make under this Act, any entry which he or she knows orhas reasonable cause to believe to be false;

 

(b) permits any person whom he or she knows or has reasonablecause to believe not to be a person with disability under subsection (1) ofsection 37 to vote in the manner provided for such persons under thatsubsection;

 

(c) refuses to permit any person whom he or she knows or hasreasonable cause to believe to be a person with disability under subsection (1)of section 37  to  vote in  the  manner provided  for  such a  person  under that subsection;

 

(d) wilfully prevents any person from voting at the pollingstation at which he or she knows or has reasonable cause to believe that personis entitled to vote;

 

(e) wilfully rejects or refuses to count any paper which he or sheknows or has reasonable cause to believe is validly cast in favour of acandidate;

 

(f) wilfully counts any ballot paper as being validly cast infavour of a candidate which he or she knows or has reasonable cause to believewas not validly cast for that candidate; or

 

(g) without reasonable cause acts or omits to act in breach of hisor her official  duty,

 

commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine notexceeding one hundred and twenty currency points or imprisonment not exceedingfive years or both.

79.  Personation

 

(1) A person who votes as some other person, commits the offenceof personation whether that other person is living or dead or is a fictitiousperson.

 

(2) A person whocommits an offence of personation is liable, on conviction, to imprisonment notexceeding five years.

 

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See the law for details on the penalties
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