Section 104Part 9 — Election Offences
Secrecy of voting
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104. (1) Every election officer and every agent appointed under section 40(1)(a) or (b), or section 64(1) in attendance at a polling station shall maintain and aid in maintaining the secrecy of the voting in such station, and no person shall interfere with or attempt to interfere with an elector when marking that person’s vote, or otherwise attempt to obtain in the polling station any information as to the candidate for whom any elector in such station is about to vote or has voted.
Every election officer and every such agent in attendance at the counting of the votes shall maintain and aid in maintaining the secrecy of the voting and shall not attempt to communicate any information obtained at such counting as to the candidate for whom any vote is given in any particular ballot paper.
No person shall, directly, or indirectly, induce any elector to display that person’s ballot paper after that person has marked it so as to make known to any person the name of the candidate for whom or against whose name that person has marked that person’s vote.
A person who contravenes this section commits an offence and is liable, on summary conviction before a magistrate, to a fine of five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for six months.