Electoral crimes are those committed during an electoral process and are not regulated in the Penal Code, but in the Organic Law 5/1985 of the General Electoral Regime. Through this law, the following behaviors, among others, are penalized as criminal offenses:

1. Officials who fail to comply with the rules related to the electoral procedure, such as the rules for the formation and preservation of the electoral roll, the rules established for the constitution of the Electoral Tables and Boards, the rules regulating the voting and scrutiny…
2. Officials who fail to issue minutes, certifications and other electoral documents provided for by law.
3. Officials who suspend without just cause any electoral act or who deny or unduly delay the admission or resolution of complaints.
4. Officials who alter the place or date on which an electoral act must be held, who conceal or alter the ballot paper delivered by any of the electors, who unduly proclaim persons, who allow anyone to vote twice or who commit any other electoral falsity.
5. Individuals who violate the procedures foreseen for voting by mail or who participate in any electoral fraud carried out by an official.
6. Individuals who vote more than once or without the capacity to do so.
7. The President and the Members of the Polling Stations who do not attend an electoral act or who leave it without a justified cause.
8. Subjects who carry out acts of electoral propaganda outside the campaign period or who violate the rules on electoral posters.
9. Persons who, by offering a reward, solicit the vote or abstention of any voter or those who use violence or intimidation to pressure voters not to vote or to vote in a certain direction.
10. Subjects who seriously disturb the order in an electoral act or who enter the premises where an electoral act is held with weapons.
11. The administrators of electoral accounts who appropriate or divert funds for purposes other than those legally foreseen.