PENAL CODE of the Democratic Republic of Timor Leste 2. Any person who hinders the exercise of the right to electoral canvassing or unlawfully destroys canvassing material, is punishable with up to 2 years imprisonment or a fine. Article 234. Obstructing freedom of choice 1. Any person who, by means of violence, threat of violence or through fraudulent deceit, compels another person to not vote or to vote in a certain manner or to buy or sell votes, is punishable with up to 3 years imprisonment or a fine. 2. Any person who, having been asked to aid a sight-impaired person to vote, or having the legal right to do the same, disregards the choice of the vote communicated by said person, incurs the same penalty. 3. The attempt is punishable. Article 235. Disrupting an election 1. Any person who, by any means, disrupts the operation of a voting center, is punishable with up to 1 year imprisonment or a fine. 2. The perpetrator is punishable with 2 to 6 years imprisonment if the disturbance results from: a) Violence or threat of violence; b) Riot or gathering of a mob near a voting center; c) Intentional cut of electrical power; d) Absence of someone indispensable to the election and that seriously affects the initiation or continuation of the same. 3. The previous subarticles are correspondingly applicable if the acts are committed at the time of tallying the results after voting has been concluded. Article 236. Obstructing the monitoring of an election 1. Any person who, by any means, hinders the representative of any political party or force, legally established and running in the election, from exercising monitoring duties, is punishable with up to 3 years imprisonment or a fine. 2. The attempt is punishable. Article 237. Voter fraud 1. Any person who votes without the right to do so or votes more than once in the same election is punishable with up to 3 years imprisonment or a fine. 2. Any person who intentionally allows the acts referred to in the previous subarticle to be committed incurs the same penalty. 3. The attempt is punishable. Article 238. Vote-counting fraud 1. Any person, who, by any means, alters the counting of votes while electoral results are being tallied or published, is punishable with 2 to 6 years imprisonment. 2. Any person who, with fraudulent intent, replaces, destroys, suppresses, removes, tampers with, biases or forges ballot papers or vote tallying records, or documents relating to the election, incurs the same penalty. 63