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(a) induces another person to vote at the election for a particular candidate or particular candidates; or

(b) induces another person not to vote at the election, or not to vote at the election for a particular candidate or particular candidates; or

(c) gets another person to induce a third person to vote at the election for a particular candidate or particular candidates; or

(d) gets another person to induce a third person not to vote at the election, or not to vote at the election for a particular candidate or particular candidates; or

(e) obstructs or prevents another person from voting at the election; or

(f) gets another person to obstruct or prevent a third person from voting at the election.

(2) A person is taken to have engaged in corrupt conduct of a kind referred to in subsection (1) even though the conduct was engaged in by another person, but only if the other person was acting with the person's authority. That authority may be conferred expressly or by implication.

15. Corrupt conduct to impersonate another at election

(1) A person engages in corrupt conduct at an election if the person, otherwise than as expressly permitted by an electoral law—

(a) applies for a ballot paper in the name of another person; or

(b) having voted at an election, applies at the same election for a ballot paper in the person's own name.

(2) In subsection (1), the reference to another person includes a reference to a person who has died or is a fictitious person as well as to an actual living person.

16. Corrupt conduct with respect to voting at elections

(1) A person engages in corrupt conduct at an election if the person—

(a) votes at the election knowing that the person is not entitled to do so; or

(b) votes at the election after having—

(i) given to an electoral officer information that the person knew to be materially false or misleading; or

(ii) knowingly omitted to give material information to an electoral officer; or

(iii) recklessly given to an electoral officer information that was materially false or misleading; or

(c) except as expressly permitted by an electoral law—