{"data":{"id":"us-ca/elec-18566","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"ELEC § 18566","heading":"","body":"Every person is punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code for two, three, or four years who:\n(a) Forges or counterfeits returns of an election purported to have been held at a precinct where no election was in fact held.\n(b) Willfully substitutes forged or counterfeit returns of election in the place of true returns for a precinct where an election was actually held.","path":["Elections Code - ELEC","DIVISION 18. PENAL PROVISIONS [18000. - 18700.]","CHAPTER 6. Corruption of the Voting Process [18500. - 18582.]","ARTICLE 4. Corruption of Voting [18560. - 18578.]"],"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":"baf25d7014c7071999bb8d7708989c735a95320de981168bc871b7a4306ae3c1","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/elec-18565","next":"us-ca/elec-18567"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}