Article 69 Undue influenceF1
A person is guilty of a corrupt practice if the person is guilty of undue influence.
A person (“P”) is guilty of undue influence if P carries out an activity falling within paragraph (4) for the purpose of—
inducing or compelling a person to vote in a particular way or to refrain from voting, or
otherwise impeding or preventing the free exercise of the franchise of an elector or of a proxy for an elector.
A person (“P”) is also guilty of undue influence if P carries out an activity falling within any of sub-paragraphs (a) to (f) of paragraph (4) on account of—
a person having voted in a particular way or refrained from voting, or
P assuming a person to have voted in a particular way or to have refrained from voting.
The following activities fall within this paragraph—
using or threatening to use violence against a person;
damaging or destroying, or threatening to damage or destroy, a person’s property;
damaging or threatening to damage a person’s reputation;
causing or threatening to cause financial loss to a person;
causing spiritual injury to, or placing undue spiritual pressure on, a person;
doing any other act designed to intimidate a person;
doing any act designed to deceive a person in relation to the administration of a PCC election.
For the purposes of paragraphs (2) and (3) an activity is carried out by a person (“P”) if it is carried out—
by P,
by P jointly with one or more other persons, or
by one or more other persons on behalf of P and with P’s authority or consent.
In paragraph (4)(f) and (g) “act” includes an omission (and references to the doing of an act are to be read accordingly).