California Elections Code CHAPTER 4 - State and County Voter Information Guides

  • Section 13300.
    (a) By at least 29 days before the partisan primary, each county elections official shall prepare a separate county voter information guide for each political party...
  • Section 13300.5.
    In order to facilitate the timely production and distribution of county voter information guides, the county elections official may prepare a combined county voter information...
  • Section 13300.7.
    Notwithstanding any other law, county and city elections officials may establish procedures designed to permit a voter to opt out of receiving his or her...
  • Section 13302.
    (a) The county elections official shall forthwith submit the county voter information guide of each political party to the chairperson of the county central committee of...
  • Section 13303.
    (a) For each election, each appropriate elections official shall cause to be printed, on plain white paper or tinted paper, without watermark, at least as many...
  • Section 13304.
    The notice of the polling place which is sent to each voter as provided in Section 13303 may, at the option of the local elections...
  • Section 13305.
    (a) Notwithstanding Sections 13300 and 13303, a county elections official may elect not to mail a county voter information guide to a voter if all of...
  • Section 13306.
    Notwithstanding Sections 13300, 13303, and 13307, county voter information guides and candidates’ statements need not be mailed to voters who registered after the 54th day...
  • Section 13307.
    (a) (1) Each candidate for nonpartisan elective office in any local agency, including any city, county, city and county, or district, may prepare a candidate’s statement on...
  • Section 13307.5.
    A candidate for United States Representative may purchase the space to place a statement in the voter information portion of the county voter information guide...
  • Section 13308.
    In addition to the restrictions set forth in Section 13307, any candidate’s statement submitted pursuant to Section 13307 shall be limited to a recitation of...
  • Section 13309.
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 13307, if a candidate alleges to be indigent and unable to pay in advance the requisite fee for submitting a candidate statement, the...
  • Section 13310.
    Prior to the nomination period for an election, the governing body of the local agency conducting the election may determine that Section 13307 is inapplicable...
  • Section 13311.
    Notwithstanding the California Public Records Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code), the statements filed...
  • Section 13312.
    (a) Each county voter information guide prepared pursuant to subdivision (b) Section 13307 shall contain a notice in the heading of the first page, not smaller...
  • Section 13313.
    (a) The elections official shall make a copy of the material referred to in Section 13307 available for public examination in the elections official’s office for...
  • Section 13314.
    (a) (1) An elector may seek a writ of mandate alleging that an error or omission has occurred, or is about to occur, in the placing of...
  • Section 13315.
    (a) The officer charged with the duty of providing county voter information guides for an election at which vote by mail voter ballots may be cast...
  • Section 13316.
    Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, a county, city, city and county, or district using voting machines may use reasonable facsimiles of the county...
  • Section 13317.
    Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, a county, city, city and county, or district using vote tabulating devices may use reasonable facsimiles of the...

Last modified: October 22, 2018