Higher penalties for publication of surveys before elections

The Litigious Electoral Tribunal (TCE) proposes tightening sanctions to polling firms that do not to exercise their activities attached to the law or that publicize surveys ten days before the elections with fines of up to $ 100,000, imprisonment for up to three years and cancellation of the legal status. And the regulation extends to individuals who make public the electoral forecasts by any means.

Cedatos director Polibio Cordova said that this is about “drastic” penalties for polling firms, but expressed the view that if a third party receives the results of a survey and publishes in the press and social networks it is not clear who would be punished, if the company or the natural person who disseminated the information.

Source: http://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/2015/10/12/nota/5178920/mayores-sanciones-difusion-sondeos-antes-elecciones