California Code
ARTICLE 4 - Issuing Ballots and Voting
Section 14288.

14288. If a voter spoils or defaces a ballot, the voter shall at once return it to the ballot clerk and receive another ballot. A voter shall not receive more than a total of three ballots, including his or her original ballot, in this manner.

(Enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch. 920, Sec. 2.)