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  1. When, in connection with an election, irrigation, tenancy, credit or 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 as means of persecuting an elector.

Article LXXXIX.—When a Government official, employee, witness or overseer connected with election business has shown to persons the names of persons voted for by electors, he 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 of not more than one hundred yen. This rule applies even when the facts shown are incorrect.

Article XC.—When, without any justifiable cause, any person has either at a voting place or a counting place, interfered with the voting of an elector or has put into practice any device calculated to get the knowledge of the name of a person voted for, he shall be sentenced to minor confinement without hard labor for not less than one month and not more than one year, or to pay a fine of not less than ten yen and not more than one hundred yen.

The foregoing clause shall apply to a person who, without following the provisions of the laws and regulations, has opened a ballot-box or has taken out ballots from a ballot-box.

Article XCI.—Whoever has done violence to a voting overseer, counting overseer, Chairman of Election, witnesses, or election overseer, or has disturbed a place of election meeting, a counting place or a voting place; or detains, damages, or plunders ballots or ballot-boxes, shall be sentenced to minor confinement without hard labor for not less than four months and not more than four years.

Whoever has committed an offence mentioned in the preceding clause by assembling a crowd for the purpose, shall be liable to be sentenced to imprisonment with hard labor; whoever has knowingly joined such a crowd to add to its influence, shall be liable to minor confinement without hard labor for not less than one month and not more than five years.

Article XCII.—Whoever has assembled a crowd for the purpose of intimidating an elector, a person who has offered himself for election, or his canvasser; or of disturbing a place of election meeting, a counting place, or a voting place; or of detaining, damaging, or plundering the ballots, ballot-boxes or other documents relating to the election, shall be liable to be sentenced to hard confinement

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