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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 18620

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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 18620

Every person who seeks, solicits, bargains for, or obtains any money, thing of value, or advantage of or from any person, firm, or corporation for the purpose or represented purpose of fraudulently inducing, persuading, or seeking the proponent or proponents of any initiative or

Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 18621

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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 18621

Any proponent of an initiative or referendum measure or recall petition who seeks, solicits, bargains for, or obtains any money or thing of value of or from any person, firm, or corporation for the purpose of abandoning the same or stopping the circulation of petitions concerning

Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 18622

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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 18622

Every person who offers to buy or does buy from a circulator any referendum, initiative, or recall petition on which one or more persons have affixed their signatures is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year, or by a fine

Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 18630

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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 18630

Every person who threatens to commit an assault or battery on a person circulating a referendum, initiative, or recall petition or on a relative of a person circulating a referendum, initiative, or recall petition or to inflict damage on the property of the circulator or the rela

Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 18631

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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 18631

Every person who forcibly or by stealth takes from the possession of a circulator any initiative, referendum, or recall petition on which one or more persons have affixed their signatures is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 18640

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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 18640

Any person working for the proponent or proponents of an initiative or referendum measure or recall petition who solicits signatures to qualify the measure or petition and accepts any payment therefor and who fails to surrender the measure or petition to the proponents thereof fo

Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 18650

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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 18650

No one shall knowingly or willfully permit the list of signatures on an initiative, referendum, or recall petition to be used for any purpose other than qualification of the initiative or referendum measure or recall question for the ballot, except as provided in Article 2 (comme

Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 18660

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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 18660

(a) Every person is punishable by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000), or 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 impris

Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 18661

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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 18661

Every public official or employee is punishable by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000), or 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 tha

Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 18670

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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 18670

Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor who, either as principal or agent, files in the office of the Secretary of State, county elections official, or in the office of any other officer designated by law to receive the filing, a petition or any section of a petition relating to

Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 18671

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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 18671

Any petition, or any section of a petition, filed by any person other than the proponents of an initiative or referendum measure and with an intention of defeating an expression of the public will is null and void.

Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 18680

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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 18680

Every person who is entrusted with money or things of value for the purpose of promoting or defeating any initiative, referendum, or recall petition or any measure that has qualified for the ballot is a trustee of the money or things of value. If a person wrongfully appropriates

Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 18700

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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 18700

Any voter who has filed an application for the position of, and been appointed as a precinct board member and who, without being excused by the county elections official, knowingly fails to act as a precinct board member, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exc

Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 19001

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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 19001

This division shall be liberally construed so that the real will of the electors will not be defeated by any informality or failure to comply with all of the provisions of the law.

Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 19002

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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 19002

Any provision of this division, insofar as it is inconsistent with any other provision of this code relating to the same subject matter, shall be controlling as to any election or precinct for which the provisions of this division are adopted.

Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 19003

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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 19003

Notwithstanding any other provision of the law to the contrary, including any city or county ordinance, unless that other provision of the law is deemed consistent with this division, this division shall govern voting systems.

Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 19004

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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 19004

Voting equipment may be loaned or rented for any purposes with the consent of the board of supervisors, if payment for the expenses incident to the use of the machine is made.

Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 19005

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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 19005

In the case of electrical failure or other emergency, the official conducting the election may direct that ballots may be marked by pencil or ink. In that event, the elections official may duplicate the voted ballot cards as provided in Section 15210 and count the duplicate ballo

Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 19006

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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 19006

It is the intent of the Legislature that: (a) All voting systems be certified or conditionally approved by the Secretary of State, independent of voluntary federal qualification or certification, before they are used in future elections to ensure that the voting systems have the

Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 19100

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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 19100

The Secretary of State shall study and adopt regulations governing the use of voting machines, voting devices, vote tabulating devices, and ballot marking systems, and shall be responsible for certifying voting systems for use in this state.

Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 19101

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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 19101

(a) The Secretary of State shall adopt and publish voting system standards and regulations governing the use of voting systems that meet the minimum requirements of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (52 U.S.C. Sec. 21081 et seq.) and that incorporate best practices in election te

Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 19102

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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 19102

The Secretary of State shall study the performance of voting systems in use in the state.

Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 19103

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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 19103

The Chairperson of the Senate Standing Committee on Elections and Constitutional Amendments and the Chairperson of the Assembly Standing Committee on Elections and Redistricting shall meet with the Secretary of State and assist the Secretary of State to the extent that the partic

Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 19104

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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 19104

(a) The Secretary of State shall do both of the following by December 31, 2014: (1) In consultation with county elections officials, establish the procedures and guidelines for voting in the event of a natural disaster or other state of emergency. The Secretary of State shall pub

Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 19105

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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 19105

The Secretary of State may investigate any alleged violation of this code or the Secretary of State’s regulations with the power to subpoena all necessary persons and records.