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1. When in connection with an election, money, goods, notes or other presents, or public or private employment have been given, either directly or indirectly, to an elector or to a canvasser, or when promised to be given; or when persuasion has been used either to accept the said articles or benefit or to accept the promise of giving them, or when the said articles or benefit have been accepted or their acceptance has been promised.
2. When in connection with an election persons have been entertained with liquors or food or with amusements, under whatever pretexts or in whatever forms, or when such entertainment has been enjoyed; or when ships, vehicles, or horses have been furnished for conveying persons to or from a place of election meeting or place for counting ballots or voting place, or when such facilities of conveyance have been accepted; or when traveling expenses or expenses incurred in lodging or in taking rest have been paid for other persons or when persons have got such expenses paid for them by others; or when promise has been given to persons to make such payment for them or when such promise has been accepted from others.
3. When, in connection with an election, irrigation, tenancy, credit, contribution and other matters of interest relating to an elector or to a shrine, temple, school, company, guild or a civic corporation related to an elector have been taken advantage of in persuading an elector; or when an elector has complied with persuasion of this kind.

In any case mentioned in the preceding clauses, the articles received shall be confiscated and those already spent shall have their value collected.

Article LXXXVIII.—Those who come under any of the following items shall be sentenced to miner confinement without hard labor for not less than two months and not more than two years, with a fine of not less than five yen and not more than one hundred yen.

1. When, in connection with an election, an elector is subjected to an act of violence or to intimidation, or when he is abducted.
2. When the convenience of passage of an elector is obstructed, or when, by fraudulent means, either the exercise of the right of election is interfered with or an elector is caused to vote.