5.1 Offenses Relating to Election

The Election (Offence and Punishment) Act 2073's catalogue (with the supporting bars in the code family — the classified list): The franchise's offences: the impersonation (voting as another); the multiple voting; the ineligible voting; the ballot-box's tampering and stuffing; the booth capturing (the force- and-fraud of the station's seizure — the gravest face); The voter's corruption: the vote-buying (the money-goods-and-promises for votes); the treating (the hospitality's inducement); the intimidation and coercion (the employment's- and-service's threats; the caste-and-communal pressure; the violence's threat); The campaign's offences: the false candidacy statements; the religious-and-communal appeals (the corrupt practice's classic — the identity's incitement); the hate speech (the code's-and-criminal-law's face); the defamatory-and-false materials; the expenses' breach (the limit's violation — the corrupt practice's face); the government-resources' misuse by the incumbent (the vehicles, the staff, the funds); The administration's offences: the officers' misconduct (the roll's falsification, the counting's rigging, the materials' theft); the duty's neglect; the observers'-and-agents' obstruction; The technology-era faces: the EVM's tampering; the social-media's coordinated deception (the misinformation campaigns — the modern code's discipline).