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18.—(1) A person is guilty of a corrupt practice if the person is guilty of undue influence.
(2) A person (P) is guilty of undue influence —
(a)if P, directly or indirectly, personally or by any other person on P’s behalf, makes use of or threatens to make use of any force, violence or restraint, or inflicts or threatens to inflict, personally or by any other person, any temporal or spiritual injury, damage, harm or loss upon or against any person in order to induce or compel that person to vote or refrain from voting, or on account of that person having voted or refrained from voting; or
(b)if, by abduction, duress or any fraudulent device or contrivance, P impedes or prevents, or intends to impede or prevent, the free exercise of the franchise of an elector or the proxy for an elector or so compels, induces or prevails upon, or intends so to compel, induce or prevail upon, an elector or the proxy for an elector either to vote or to refrain from voting.
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