Penalties for falsifying election results and latest referendum results
(Baonghean.vn) - Let me ask about the penalty for falsifying election results and referendum results in the latest Penal Code. The issue of concern to Mr. Nguyen Van Quang (Nghi Loc, Nghe An).
Reply:Article 161 of Chapter XV of the 2015 Penal Code and the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the 2017 Penal Code stipulates the crime of falsifying election results and referendum results as follows:
1. Anyone who is responsible for organizing and supervising elections or referendums and forges documents, commits vote fraud or uses other tricks to distort election results or referendum results shall be subject to non-custodial reform for up to 02 years or imprisonment from 03 months to 02 years.
2. Committing a crime in one of the following cases shall be punishable by imprisonment from 01 year to 03 years:
a) Organized;
b) Lead to re-organizing elections or referendums.
3. The offender may also be banned from holding certain positions from 01 to 05 years.
Falsifying election results is understood as the act of forging documents, cheating on ballots or using other tricks to distort election results (ie not reflecting the truth). The highest penalty that a person who commits the crime of falsifying election results or referendum results can be subject to is 03 years in prison, which is a less serious crime.
