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2018 California Code
Elections Code - ELEC
DIVISION 18 - PENAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 6 - Corruption of the Voting Process
ARTICLE 4 - Corruption of Voting
Section 18566.
Universal Citation: CA Elec Code § 18566 (2018)
18566.
Every person is punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code for two, three, or four years who:
(a) Forges or counterfeits returns of an election purported to have been held at a precinct where no election was in fact held.
(b) Willfully substitutes forged or counterfeit returns of election in the place of true returns for a precinct where an election was actually held.
(Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 15, Sec. 83. (AB 109) Effective April 4, 2011. Operative October 1, 2011, by Sec. 636 of Ch. 15, as amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 39, Sec. 68.)
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