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2025 California Code
Elections Code - ELEC
DIVISION 18 - PENAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 5 - Ballots
Section 18403.
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CA Elec Code § 18403 (2025)
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18403. Any person other than an elections official or a member of the precinct board who receives a voted ballot from a voter or who examines or solicits the voter to show their voted ballot is punishable by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code for 16 months or two or three years, or in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment. This section does not apply to persons returning a vote by mail ballot pursuant to Section 3017 or persons assisting a voter pursuant to Section 14282.
(Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 161, Sec. 35. (AB 2608) Effective August 22, 2022.)
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