{"data":{"id":"us-ca/elec-18523","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"ELEC § 18523","heading":"","body":"A person shall not directly or through any other person advance or pay, or cause to be paid, any money or other valuable thing to or for the use of any other person, with the intent that it, or any part thereof, shall be used in bribery at any election, or knowingly pay or cause to be paid any money or other valuable thing to any person in discharge or repayment of any money, wholly or in part, expended in bribery at any election.\nAny person violating this section is punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code for 16 months or two or three years.","path":["Elections Code - ELEC","DIVISION 18. PENAL PROVISIONS [18000. - 18700.]","CHAPTER 6. Corruption of the Voting Process [18500. - 18582.]","ARTICLE 2. Corruption of Voters [18520. - 18524.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"26473dbdbaa722075cf444901932c53e10a93a09a7be739703ba54b844bb0040","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/elec-18522","next":"us-ca/elec-18524"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}