Prohibited conduct: politically-motivated violence or intimidation 5. No political party or any of its members or supporters, and no candidate, any of his or her supporters and no stakeholders may— (a) use violence, or threaten violence or incite or encourage the use of violence, against anyone on account of his or her political opinions or membership or support of a political party or participation in the election; (b) intimidate, or incite or encourage the intimidation, of anyone on account of his or her political opinions or membership or support of a political party; or act in a way that may provoke violence or intimidation; (c) use violence or threats or illegal pressure to force a voter to refrain from voting or to vote for a candidate or political party against his or her will; (d) force a voter to reveal the identity of the candidate voted for or take reprisals against a person because of the way in which he or she has voted or is believed to have voted. Prohibited conduct: other prohibited acts 6. No political party or any of its members or supporters, and no candidate or any of his or her supporters, may— (a) publish false or defamatory allegations about a party, its candidate(s), representatives or members; (b) discriminate on the grounds of race, ethnicity, sex, gender, class or religion in connection with an election or political party; (c) use hateful language which incites violence towards any individual or group, including in speeches, songs and slogans. (d) damage or deface property, including the election posters, placards, banners and other election material of another party or candidate, and any posters or other voter education materials disseminated by the Electoral Commission; (e) bar or inhibit access to meetings or to voters for the purpose of election campaigning; (f) carry or display weapons at political meetings or at marches, demonstrations, rallies or other public political events; (g) bribe a voter to exercise his or vote in a particular manner; (h) bribe or intimidate an election official to induce him or her to make a false entry in the voters roll or to alter or falsify election results; (i) encourage a person to vote knowing that they are not entitled to do so; (j) use the information on the voters roll supplied by the Commission for commercial purposes or to harass or intimidate voters (and they may not publish personal information about voters contained in the electoral roll); (k) coerce or offer monetary or other kinds of inducements to persons for them to participate in the activities of a political party not of their choice, or— (i) to become or not become a member of certain political party, stand or not to stand as candidates, or to withdraw or not to withdraw their candidacies or membership of a political party; (ii) violate the secrecy of the vote; (l) procure the support or assistance of any official or public servant to act in a partisan manner or further the interest of any political party or cause; (m) do any other thing that is defined in the Constitution, the Electoral Act or other laws of Zimbabwe as a corrupt and illegal practice or an offence; (n) abuse the right to complain to the courts by making false, frivolous or vexatious complaints. Conduct during polling period 7.(1) No political party or candidate may, from midnight twenty-four hours before polling day in any election or referendum until polling stations are closed on that day—