Western Australian Current Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 4.91

4.91 .         Nomination papers, ballot papers and ballot boxes, offences relating to

        (1)         A person who —

            (a)         forges or fraudulently defaces or destroys a ballot paper or nomination paper; or

            (b)         fraudulently puts a ballot paper into a ballot box; or

            (c)         wilfully destroys, takes, opens or otherwise interferes with any ballot box or ballot papers without authority; or

            (d)         personates any elector,

                commits an offence.

        Penalty: $10 000 or imprisonment for 2 years.

        (2)         A person who —

            (a)         supplies a ballot paper without authority; or

            (b)         is in possession of an unauthorised ballot paper; or

            (c)         votes more than once in an election; or

            (d)         marks a ballot paper without authority,

                commits an offence.

        Penalty: $5 000 or imprisonment for one year.

        (3)         A person who fraudulently leaves a polling place with a ballot paper commits an offence.

        Penalty: $2 000.