CCW in Polling Places (While Voting)

[OCResident]

Looks as though CCW in the polls isn’t exempt. Nothing at AG web page to the contrary, so this seems absolute. Carry at polling is at risk. read the following and be forwarned.

From CALIFORNIA CODES
ELECTIONS CODE
SECTION 18540-18548

18544. (a) Any person in possession of a firearm or any uniformed
peace officer, private guard, or security personnel or any person who
is wearing a uniform of a peace officer, guard, or security
personnel, who is stationed in the immediate vicinity of, or posted
at, a polling place without written authorization of the appropriate
city or county elections official is punishable by a fine not
exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), 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.
(b) This section shall not apply to any of the following:
(1) An unarmed uniformed guard or security personnel who is at the
polling place to cast his or her vote.
(2) A peace officer who is conducting official business in the
course of his or her public employment or who is at the polling place
to cast his or her vote.
(3) A private guard or security personnel hired or arranged for by
a city or county elections official.
(4) A private guard or security personnel hired or arranged for by
the owner or manager of the facility or property in which the
polling place is located if the guard or security personnel is not
hired or arranged solely for the day on which an election is held.

18545. Any person who hires or arranges for any other person in
possession of a firearm or any uniformed peace officer, private
guard, or security personnel or any person who is wearing a uniform
of a peace officer, guard, or security personnel, to be stationed in
the immediate vicinity of, or posted at, a polling place without
written authorization of the appropriate elections official is
punishable by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), 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. This section shall not apply to the owner or manager
of the facility or property in which the polling place is located if
the private guard or security personnel is not hired or arranged
solely for the day on which the election is held.