(1) Except as authorized by the law, any employee deputed in performing the act relating to election or candidate or election agent or polling agent or counting agent or any other person shall not divulge to any person, write or disclose in any manner, the vote marked by the voter in the ballot paper or any other matter pertaining thereto known to him or her or which he or she comes to know.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in the prevailing laws, no witness or person shall be asked in the course of legal proceeding instituted under this Act any question as to whom he or she has voted for election or who has voted for whom.