Cree-Naskapi Band Elections Regulations (SOR/88-315)

62 Unless authorized by a by-law made under section 64 of the Act or by subsection 31(2), no person shall

• (a) be in a voting compartment with an elector;

• (b) be in a position from which the person can see for whom an elector marks his ballot; or

• (c) at a polling station, attempt to know how an elector intends to vote.

63 No person who assists an elector to vote pursuant to a by-law made under section 64 of the Act or to subsection 31(2) shall

• (a) influence or attempt to influence the elector in the selection of the candidate for whom the elector votes; or

• (b) mark the elector’s ballot contrary to the elector’s intention.

• 64 (1) No person shall interfere with or attempt to interfere with an elector who is in a voting compartment.

• (2) No person shall interfere with or attempt to interfere with the counting of votes.

• 65 (1) No person shall

  • (a) counterfeit or fraudulently alter or deface a ballot or the initials of a Returning Officer, Deputy Returning Officer or Assistant Returning Officer on a ballot;

  • (b) fraudulently destroy a ballot;

  • (c) without authority, supply a ballot to a person;

  • (d) fraudulently deposit in a ballot box any paper other than the ballot that the person is authorized by a by-law made under section 64 of the Act or by these Regulations to deposit in the ballot box;

  • (e) without authority take a ballot;

  • (f) fraudulently take a ballot out of a polling station;

  • (g) without authority, destroy, damage, take, open or otherwise interfere with a ballot box; or

  • (h) fraudulently print a ballot.

• (2) No person shall attempt to commit any of the acts referred to in subsection (1).

66 No Returning Officer, Deputy Returning Officer or Assistant Returning Officer shall divulge any information obtained by that officer in respect of the conduct of an election

• (a) except as authorized by a by-law made under section 64 of the Act or by these Regulations; or

• (b) unless that officer is required to give evidence in the course of a legal proceeding respecting the election.

67 No Returning Officer, Deputy Returning Officer or Assistant Returning Officer shall fraudulently initial or attempt to initial a ballot or any paper purported to be a ballot.

Maximum Punishment

68 For the purposes of section 198 of the Act,

• (a) subject to paragraph (c), for the contravention of paragraph 56(a) or any of sections 59 to 62, 64 or 66, the maximum fine is one hundred dollars and the maximum term of imprisonment is three months;

• (b) subject to paragraph (c), for the contravention of paragraph 56(b) or section 57, 63 or 65, the maximum fine is two hundred dollars and the maximum term of imprisonment is six months;

• (c) for the contravention of paragraph 56(b), section 57, 62, 63 or any of sections 65 to 67 by a Returning Officer, a Deputy Returning Officer or an Assistant Returning Officer, the maximum fine is four hundred dollars and the maximum term of imprisonment is six months; and

• (d) for the contravention of paragraph 56(c) or section 58, the maximum fine is five hundred dollars and the maximum term of imprisonment is six months.