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California Elections Code Section 13102

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(a) All voting shall be by ballot. There shall be provided,
at each polling place, at each election at which public officers are
to be voted for, but one form of ballot for all candidates for public
office, except that, for partisan primary elections, one form of
ballot shall be provided for each qualified political party as well
as one form of nonpartisan ballot, in accordance with subdivision
(b).
   (b) At partisan primary elections, each voter not registered as
intending to affiliate with any one of the political parties
participating in the election shall be furnished only a nonpartisan
ballot, unless he or she requests a ballot of a political party and
that political party, by party rule duly noticed to the Secretary of
State, authorizes a person who has declined to state a party
affiliation to vote the ballot of that political party. The
nonpartisan ballot shall contain only the names of all candidates for
nonpartisan offices and measures to be voted for at the primary
election. Each voter registered as intending to affiliate with a
political party participating in the election shall be furnished only
a ballot of the political party with which he or she is registered
and the nonpartisan ballot, both of which shall be printed together
as one ballot in the form prescribed by Section 13207.
   (c) A political party may adopt a party rule in accordance with
subdivision (b) that authorizes a person who has declined to state a
party affiliation to vote the ballot of that political party at the
next ensuing partisan primary election. The political party shall
notify the party chair immediately upon adoption of that party rule.
The party chair shall provide written notice of the adoption of that
rule to the Secretary of State not later than the 135th day prior to
the partisan primary election at which the vote is authorized.
   (d) The county elections official shall maintain a record of which
political party's ballot was requested pursuant to subdivision (b),
or whether a nonpartisan ballot was requested, by each person who
declined to state a party affiliation. The record shall be made
available to any person or committee who is authorized to receive
copies of the printed indexes of registration for primary and general
elections pursuant to Section 2184. A record produced pursuant to
this subdivision shall be made available in either a printed or
electronic format, as requested by the authorized person or
committee.

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