Section 62: Fraudulent use of ballot paper.

(1) Any person who, having been issued with a ballot paper in a polling station, takes or attempts to take that ballot paper out of the polling station shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for six months or to a fine of N500 or to both such imprisonment and fine.
(2) Any person who at an election brings into a polling station a ballot paper relating to the election issued to another person shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for one year or to a fine of N1,000 or to both such imprisonment and fine.
(3) For the purposes of sections 55, 56 and 57 of this Act, the expression "refrain from voting" includes taking a ballot paper out of polling station contrary to subsection (1) of this section.
(4) If the Presiding Officer in a polling station has reason to suspect that any person who has been issued with a ballot paper and is about to leave a polling station has the ballot paper in his possession, the Presiding Officer or any person acting under his directions may search such person.