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OMNIBUS ELECTION CODE ELECTION LAWS, RULES AND PROCEDURES

(12) Any person who transfers or causes the transfer of

the registration record of a voter to the book of voters of

another polling place, unless said transfer was due to a

change of address of the voter and the voter was duly

notified of his new polling place.

(13) Any person who asks, demands, takes, accepts or

possesses, directly or indirectly, the voter's affidavit of

another, in order to induce the latter to withhold his vote,

or to vote for or against any candidate in an election or

any issue in a plebiscite or referendum. It shall be

presumed

prima

facie

that

the

asking, demanding,

taking, accepting, or possessing is with such intent if

done

within

the

period

beginning

ten

days before

election day and ending ten days after election day,

unless the voter's affidavit of another and the latter are

both members of the same family.

(14) Any person who delivers, hands over, entrusts,

gives, directly or indirectly his voter's affidavit to another

in consideration of money or other benefit or promises

thereof, or takes or accepts such voter's affidavit directly

or indirectly, by giving or causing the giving of money or

other benefit or making or causing the making of a

promise thereof.

(15) Any person who alters in any manner, tears,

defaces, removes or destroys any certified list of voters.

(16) Any person who takes, carries or possesses any

blank or unused registration form already issued to a city

or municipality outside of said city or municipality except

as otherwise provided in this Code or when directed by

express order of the court or of the Commission.

(17) Any person who maliciously omits, tampers or

transfers to another list the name of a registered voter

from the official list of voters posted outside the polling

place.

(z) On voting:

(1) Any person who fails to cast his vote without

justifiable excuse.

(2) Any person who votes more than once in the same

election, or who, not being a registered voter, votes in an

election.

(3) Any person who votes in substitution for another

whether with or without the latter's knowledge and/or

consent.

(4) Any person who, not being illiterate or physically

disabled, allows his ballot to be prepared by another, or

any person who prepares the ballot of another who is not

illiterate or physically disabled, with or without the latter's

knowledge and/or consent.

(5) Any person who avails himself of any means of

scheme to discover the contents of the ballot of a voter

who is preparing or casting his vote or who has just voted.

(6) Any voter who, in the course of voting, uses a

ballot other than the one given by the board of election

inspectors or has in his possession more than one official

ballot.

(7) Any person who places under arrest or detains a

voter without lawful cause, or molests him in such a

manner as to obstruct or prevent him from going to the

polling place to cast his vote or from returning home

after casting his vote, or to compel him to reveal how he

voted.

(8) Any member of the board of election inspectors

charged with the duty of reading the ballot during the

counting of votes who deliberately omits to read the vote

duly written on the ballot, or misreads the vote actually

written thereon or reads the name of a candidate where

no name is written on the ballot.

(9) Any member of the board of election inspectors

charged with the duty of tallying

the votes in the tally board or sheet, election returns

or other prescribed form who deliberately fails to record a

vote therein or records erroneously the votes as read, or

records a vote where no such vote has been read by the

chairman.

(10) Any member of a board of election inspectors

who has made possible the casting of more votes than

there are registered voters.

(11) Any person who, for the purpose of disrupting or

obstructing the election process or causing confusion

among the voters, propagates false and alarming reports

or information or transmits or circulates false orders,

directives or messages regarding any matter relating to

the printing of official ballots, the postponement of the

election, the transfer of polling place or the general

conduct of the election.

(12) Any person who, without legal authority, destroys,

substitutes or takes away from the possession of those

having legal custody thereof, or from the place where

they are legally deposited, any election form or document

or ballot box which contains official ballots or other

documents used in the election.

(13) Any person having legal custody of the ballot box

containing the official ballots used in the election who

opens or destroys said box or removes or destroys its

contents without or against the order of the Commission

or who, through his negligence, enables any person to

commit any of the aforementioned acts, or takes away

said ballot box from his custody.

(14) Any member of the board of election inspectors

who knowingly uses ballots other than the official ballots,

except in those cases where the use of emergency ballots

is authorized.

(15)

Any

public

official

who

neglects or fails to

properly

preserve

or

account

for

any

ballot

box,

documents and forms received by him and kept under

his custody.

(16) Any person who reveals the contents of the ballot

of an illiterate or disabled voter whom he assisted in

preparing a ballot.

(17) Any person who, without authority, transfers the

location of a polling place.

(18) Any person who, without authority, prints or

causes the printing of any ballot or election returns that

appears as official ballots or election returns or who

distributes or causes the same to be distributed for use in

the election, whether or not they are actually used.

(19) Any person who, without authority, keeps, uses or

carries out or causes to be kept, used or carried out, any

official ballot or election returns or printed proof thereof,

type-form mould, electro-type printing plates and any

other plate, numbering machines and other printing

paraphernalia being used in connection with the printing

of official ballots or election returns.

(20)

Any

official

or

employee

of

any

printing

establishment or of the Commission or any member of

the committee in charge of the printing of official ballots

or election returns who causes official ballots or election

returns to be printed in quantities exceeding those

authorized

by

the

Commission

or

who

distributes,

delivers, or in any manner disposes of or causes to be

distributed, delivered, or disposed of, any official ballot or

election returns to any person or persons not authorized

by law or by the Commission to receive or keep official

ballots or election returns or who sends or causes them to

be sent to any place not designated by law or by the

Commission.

(21) Any person who, through any act, means or

device, violates the integrity of any official ballot or

election returns before or after they are used in the

election.

(22)

Any

person

who removes, tears, defaces or

destroys any certified list of candidates posted inside the

voting booths during the hours of voting.

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