If you are a candidate in an election and you do something wrong on purpose, like cheating, you can get in trouble. When someone complains about what you did, there is a trial to figure out what happened. If the court decides you did cheat, your election win will be cancelled, which means you will not get to be the winner.
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Where a candidate who has been elected at any election is proved at the trial of an election petition to which section 229(3) applies to have been guilty of any corrupt practice at the election, his or her election shall be void.
