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California Elections Code Section 302

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"Ballot card" means a card or a number of cards upon which are
printed, or identified by reference to the ballot, the names of
candidates for nomination or election to one or more offices or the
ballot titles of one or more measures.  The ballot card shall also
contain proper blank spaces to allow the voter to write in names not
printed on the ballot unless a separate write-in ballot is used.  The
separate write-in ballot may be a paper ballot, a card, or the
envelope used to enclose a ballot card.  Determination of the format
of a separate write-in ballot shall be within the discretion of the
elections board.  The separate write-in ballot shall provide a blank
space followed by the word "office" and a second blank space followed
by the word "name" for purposes of facilitating write-in votes for
offices for which write-in votes may be cast, or may provide a space
for writing in the name followed by a space for punching or slotting
in order that the vote may be tabulated.  All separate write-in
ballots may, in the discretion of the elections board, have attached
thereto two stubs that comply with Section 13261 regarding the stubs
attached to a ballot card, except that the information required under
subdivisions (c) through (g) of Section 13261 and instructions to
voters on how to vote for persons whose names do not appear on the
ballot may be printed on the write-in ballot and not upon a stub.
Any serial numbers appearing on the write-in ballot stubs need not be
identical to the serial numbers appearing on the stubs attached to
the ballot card or cards handed to the voter.  Sections 13002 through
13007 shall not apply to the preparation and composition of separate
write-in ballots authorized by this section.  Sections 14403 and
14404 shall not apply to separate write-in ballots used in an
election in which a punchcard voting system is used.

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