Section 101: Requirement of order lines.

(1) Every Electoral Officer, Assistant Electoral Officer, Returning Officer, Assistant Returning Officer, Poll Clerk or Assistant Poll Clerk or any officer or officers (by whatever name called orderlines appointed under paragraph 4 of Schedule 4 to this Act concerned in the conduct of an election, and every Polling Agent or candidate in attendance at a polling station or place of voting, or at the counting of the votes shall maintain and aid in maintaning the orderliness of the voting.
(2) No such officer, agent or candidate shall, except for some purpose authorised by law, communicate before the poll is closed to any person any information as to the name or number on the register of voters of any voter who has or has not voted at the place of voting.
(3) No person shall-
(a) interfere with any voter in the process of voting;
(b) otherwise obtain or attempt to obtain in the place of voting, information as to the candidate for whom a voter in that place is about to vote or has voted ; or
(c) communicate at any time to any person any information obtained in a place of voting as to the candidate for whom a voter in that place is about to vote or has voted.
(4) If any person contravenes any of the provisions of this section, he is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to imprisonment for 2 years or to a fine of N5,000 or to both such imprisonment and fine.
(5) The words, "while in the process of voting" as used in subsection (3) of this section means "period starting from the commencement of accreditation till the end of poll".