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Criminal Code Act 1983
87Undue influence
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87 Undue influence
(a) uses or threatens to use any force or restraint, or does or
threatens to do any temporal or spiritual injury, or causes or
threatens to cause any detriment of any kind, to an elector in
order to induce him to vote in a particular manner or to refrain
from voting at an election or on account of his having voted at
an election; or
(b) by force or fraud prevents or obstructs the free exercise of the
franchise of an elector, or by any such means compels or
induces an elector to vote in a particular manner or to refrain
from voting at an election,