7.2 Punishment on Offences related to Election

The Act's-and-the-statutes' sanctions' ladder: the imprisonment terms and fines 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 own numbers to be read from the current text); the disqualification's consequences — the corrupt-practice conviction's candidacy bar (the moral-turpitude's constitutional link — Article 87's conviction bar; the sentence-served requirement); the election's voidance (the successful candidate's corrupt practice → the election's nullity — the petition's remedy, 7.3); the forfeiture'sfaces (the deposit's loss for the weak vote; the expenses' disallowance); and the code's-and- commission's administrative sanctions (the warning → the recognition's-and-symbol's faces — the party-level discipline). The enforcement's actors: the police's investigation (the election-time cells), the government attorney's prosecution, the special-court-and-the-regular-courts' trial routes per the offence's classification, and the EC's administrative side.