Public officials Election And Recall Act Article 104

Whoever intentionally disseminates rumors or spread falsehoods by text, picture, audio, video, speech, or by any other means for the intentional purpose of causing a candidate to be elected or to not be elected, or causing the recall of a person subject to recall to pass or to be rejected and thus causing harm to the public or others shall be sentenced to a fixed term of imprisonment of not more than five years.Whoever commits any offense in the preceding paragraph by disseminating, broadcasting or distributing by any other means deep-fake voice, image, or electronic recordings of candidates in the election, the primary persons who propose a recall, or persons subject to recall shall be sentenced to a fixed term of imprisonment of not more than seven years.The term of imprisonment shall be aggravated by a half for persons who commit any offense in the preceding two paragraphs for personal gain and a fine may be imposed of not less than NT$2 million and not more than NT$10 million.