SECTIONS 18610-18614 - California Statutes

ELECTIONS CODE

SECTION 18610-18614

18610. Every person who solicits any circulator to affix to any
initiative, referendum, or recall petition any false or forged
signature, or to cause or permit a false or forged signature to be
affixed, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

18611. Every person is punishable by a fine not exceeding five
thousand dollars ($5,000), or by imprisonment in the state prison for
16 months or two or three years or in a county jail not exceeding
one year, or by both the fine and imprisonment, who circulates or
causes to be circulated any initiative, referendum, or recall
petition, knowing it to contain false, forged, or fictitious names.

18612. Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor who knowingly signs
his or her own name more than once to any initiative, referendum, or
recall petition, or signs his or her name to that petition knowing
himself or herself at the time of signing not to be qualified to sign
it.

18613. Every person who subscribes to any initiative, referendum,
or recall petition a fictitious name, or who subscribes thereto the
name of another, or who causes another to subscribe such a name to
that petition, is guilty of a felony and is punishable by
imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or four years.

18614. Every person is punishable by a fine not exceeding five
thousand dollars ($5,000), or by imprisonment in the state prison for
16 months or two or three years or in a county jail not exceeding
one year, or by both the fine and imprisonment, who files in the
office of the elections official or other officer designated by law
to receive the filing, any initiative, referendum, or recall petition
to which is attached, appended or subscribed any signature which the
person filing the petition knows to be false or fraudulent or not
the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be.