California Elections Code CHAPTER 2 - Forms of Ballots: Ballot Order

• Section 13100.
  All ballots used in all elections shall be governed by this chapter unless otherwise specifically provided.(Enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch. 920, Sec. 2.)
• Section 13101.
  (a) In the case of the prevention of an election in any precinct by the loss or destruction of the ballots intended for that precinct, the...
• Section 13102.
  (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...
• Section 13103.
  Every ballot shall contain all of the following:(a) The title of each office, arranged to conform as nearly as practicable to the plan set forth in...
• Section 13104.
  If a candidate changes his or her name within one year of any election, the new name shall not appear upon the ballot unless the...
• Section 13105.
  (a) In the case of a candidate for a voter-nominated office in a primary election, a general election, or a special election to fill a vacancy...
• Section 13106.
  No title or degree shall appear on the same line on a ballot as a candidate’s name, either before or after the candidate’s name, in...
• Section 13107.
  (a) With the exception of candidates for Justice of the State Supreme Court or court of appeal, immediately under the name of each candidate, and not...
• Section 13107.3.
  (a) A candidate who submits a ballot designation pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 13107 shall file a ballot designation worksheet that supports the use of...
• Section 13107.5.
  (a) A candidate’s ballot designation as “community volunteer” shall constitute a valid principal vocation or occupation for purposes of subdivision (a) of Section 13107, if not...
• Section 13108.
  (a) At the first elections for Representative in Congress, State Senator, Member of the Assembly, and Member of the Board of Equalization in each congressional, senatorial,...
• Section 13109.
  The order of precedence of offices on the ballot shall be as listed below for those offices and measures that apply to the election for...
• Section 13109.5.
  Notwithstanding anything in Section 13109 to the contrary, and to facilitate compliance with Section 13206, the elections official may list the offices specified in subdivision...
• Section 13110.
  The group of names of candidates for any partisan office, voter-nominated office, or nonpartisan office shall be the same on the ballots of all voters...
• Section 13111.
  Candidates for each office shall be printed on the ballot in accordance with the following rules:(a) The names of presidential candidates to whom candidates for delegate...
• Section 13112.
  The Secretary of State shall conduct a drawing of the letters of the alphabet, the result of which shall be known as a randomized alphabet....
• Section 13113.
  (a) In the case of an election of candidates in a special district, school district, charter city (whose charter does not provide to the contrary), or...
• Section 13114.
  (a) At any regular meeting of a city council held prior to the date on which the Secretary of State conducts the randomized alphabet drawing applicable...
• Section 13115.
  The order in which all state measures that are to be submitted to the voters shall appear on the ballot is as follows:(a) Bond measures, including...
• Section 13116.
  (a) In an election at which state, county, city, or other local measures are submitted to a vote of the voters, all state measures shall be...
• Section 13117.
  (a) Commencing with the November 3, 1998, general election, all state measures in all elections at which state measures are submitted to a vote of the...
• Section 13118.
  The following rules apply when a person who is a candidate for an office believes that another person with a name that is so similar...
• Section 13119.
  (a) The ballots used when voting upon a measure proposed by a local governing body or submitted to the voters as an initiative or referendum measure...
• Section 13120.
  The ballots used when voting upon a state, county, city, or district statute or ordinance referred to the voters of the respective jurisdiction as a...
• Section 13121.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the county elections official conducting any school election shall not be required to provide more than one ballot...

Last modified: October 22, 2018