Undue influence
44 Undue influence
A person who —
threatens, offers, or suggests any violence, injury, punishment, damage, loss, or disadvantage to an elector or any other person —
in order to influence the elector in his vote in connection with a referendum or to induce him to mark his vote in a particular manner; or
in order to induce the elector to refrain from voting at a referendum; or
in the case of a referendum as to a Bill, in order to induce the elector to support or oppose the Bill;
or
uses, causes, inflicts, or procures any violence, injury, punishment, damage, loss or disadvantage towards, to, or upon any elector or any other person, for or on account of any such vote, refraining from voting, support, or opposition,
shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding $400 or imprisonment for one year.
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