§ 18566 Election Return Forgery Penalties
This law says it’s a crime to make up or fake election results, whether the precinct never had an election or by swapping real results with fake ones, and you can go to jail for 2 to 4 years.
A person creates a fake vote tally for a small town that never held an election and sends it to the state, or a person takes the real vote count from a precinct that did hold an election and replaces it with a made‑up count.
In either case the person is breaking the law and could be sentenced to two, three, or four years in prison.
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§ 18566 Election Return Forgery Penalties
Last verified: January 10, 2026