Electoral offences continued :: Mmegi Online

This week we run through more offences found in the Electoral Act. A person who at an election applies for a ballot paper in the name of another person whether that be that of a living, dead or fictitious person; or who having voted once at an election applies for a second ballot paper in his own name commits an offence called personation.

An offence of this nature is alleged to have happened before somewhere in Francistown. There is no record of a prosecution.

Any person who corruptly, directly or indirectly, pays for any entertainment, other than food or drink, in order to corruptly influence another person to vote or not to vote at an election, or to reward him for having voted or not having voted at an election commits the offence of treating. Voters who corruptly accept such entertainment commit the same offence.

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