E-3.1 - Election Act

Section 217 Disposition versions

1980-08-15

217. Every person who

(1)  votes more than once at the same election;

(2)  permits a person to vote without being registered on the electoral list;

(3)  votes without being entitled to vote;

(4)  knowingly prints or uses a false ballot paper or alters or counterfeits a ballot paper;

(5)  modifies or imitates the initials of the deputy returning officer;

(6)  acts as the agent of a candidate when his power of attorney is false;

(7)  is a deputy returning officer and remits a ballot paper to a person refusing to take the oath required;

(8)  is a deputy returning officer and knowingly admits to vote a person who has already voted;

(9)  is an election officer and arrives late at the polling station in order to delay the opening of the poll,

is guilty of an offence.

1979, c. 56, s. 217.