(1) A person in attendance at the polling station or other place of voting shall maintain and aid in maintaining the secrecy of the voting in such station or place and shall not communicate, except for some purpose authorised by Law, before the poll is closed, to any person any information as to the name or other means of identification of any elector who has or has not applied for a ballot paper or voted at that station or place, and no such person and no person whatsoever shall interfere with or attempt to interfere with a voter when marking his or her vote, or otherwise attempt to obtain in the polling station or other place of voting information as to the candidate for whom any voter in such station or place is about to vote or has voted, or communicate at any time to any person any information obtained in a polling station or other place of voting as to the candidate for whom any voter in such station or place is about to vote or has voted.