5.2 Punishment for Election Offenses

The sanctions' ladder (the Act's-and-statutes' design): The imprisonment-and-fine scales: by the offence's gravity — the serious (the capturing, the impersonation-with-conspiracy, the officer's fraud) the heavier terms; the petty (the campaign's breaches) the lighter-and-fine faces (the Act's current numbers to be read from the text — never invented); The disqualification's consequences: the corrupt-practice conviction's candidacy bar (the constitutional-and-statutory link: the moral-turpitude conviction's disqualification — the qualifications' articles; the sentence-served requirement); The election's voidance: the successful candidate's corrupt practice → the election's nullity (the petition's remedy — 5.3); The forfeiture's faces: the deposit's loss (the weak vote's threshold); the expenses' disallowance; The administrative sanctions: the Commission's ladder (the warning → the recognition's- and-symbol's faces — the party-level discipline; the code's enforcement — Unit 4.5). The enforcement's actors: the police's investigation (the election-time cells); the government attorney's prosecution; the courts' trial routes per the offence's classification; the Commission's administrative side.