38. Is there a ban on vote buying?

Iceland

Iceland

Answer
Yes
Source

Article 117 - Parliamentary Elections Law (2000), last amended in 2017. 

Comment

It is banned to offer anyone money or advantages in order to have an effect on whether they cast a vote or for whom they cast a vote, to deprive a person or to threaten a person with the deprivation of his or her job or advantages for the same purpose, to promise money or advantages to a person if an election turns out this way or that way. 

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