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• California Elections Code Section 1
  This act shall be known as the Elections Code.
• California Elections Code Section 2
  The provisions of this code, insofar as they are substantially the same as existing statutory provisions relating to the same subject matter, shall be construed...
• California Elections Code Section 3
  If any provision of this code or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the code and the...
• California Elections Code Section 4
  Unless the provision or the context otherwise requires, these general provisions, rules of construction, and definitions shall govern the construction of this code.
• California Elections Code Section 5
  Division, part, chapter, article, and section headings do not in any manner affect the scope, meaning, or intent of this code.
• California Elections Code Section 6
  Whenever a power is granted to, or a duty is imposed upon, a public officer, the power may be exercised or the duty may be...
• California Elections Code Section 7
  Writing includes any form of recorded message capable of comprehension by ordinary visual means. Whenever any notice, report, statement or record is required or authorized...
• California Elections Code Section 8
  As used in this code, the present tense includes the past and future tenses, and the future the present; the masculine gender includes the feminine;...
• California Elections Code Section 9
  (a) Counting of words, for purposes of this code, shall be as follows: (1) Punctuation is not counted. (2) Each word shall be counted as...
• California Elections Code Section 10
  The Secretary of State is the chief elections officer of the state, and has the powers and duties specified in Section 12172.5 of the Government
• California Elections Code Section 11
  On written call of the Secretary of State, the county elections officials, city elections officials, and registrars of voters of this state may meet with...
• California Elections Code Section 12
  Whenever any candidate files a declaration of candidacy, nomination paper, or any other paper evidencing an intention to be a candidate for any public office...
• California Elections Code Section 13
  (a) A person shall not be considered a legally qualified candidate for an office, for party nomination for a partisan office, or for nomination to...
• California Elections Code Section 13.5
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 13, no person shall be considered a legally qualified candidate for any of the offices set forth in...
• California Elections Code Section 14
  In case of a disaster in which a portion or all of the voting records of any county are destroyed, the Governor may appoint an...
• California Elections Code Section 15
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if the last day for the performance of any act provided for or required by this code shall be...
• California Elections Code Section 16
  A copy of Section 84305 of the Government Code shall be provided by the elections official to each candidate or his or her agent at...
• California Elections Code Section 17
  The Secretary of State shall establish and maintain administrative complaint procedures, pursuant to the requirements of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (42 U.S.C....
• California Elections Code Section 20
  (a) A person shall not be considered a candidate for, and is not eligible to be elected to, any state or local elective office if...
• California Elections Code Section 100
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever any initiative, referendum, recall, nominating petition or paper, or any other petition or paper, is required to be...
• California Elections Code Section 100.5
  Notwithstanding Section 100, a voter who is unable to personally affix on a petition or paper the information required by Section 100 may request another...
• California Elections Code Section 101
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any state or local initiative petition required to be signed by voters shall contain in 12-point type, prior to...
• California Elections Code Section 102
  A person who is a voter or who is qualified to register to vote in this state may circulate an initiative or referendum petition in...
• California Elections Code Section 103
  A voter who has signed an initiative, referendum, or recall petition pursuant to the Constitution or laws of this state shall have his or her...
• California Elections Code Section 104
  (a) Wherever any petition or paper is submitted to the elections official, each section of the petition or paper shall have attached to it a...
• California Elections Code Section 105
  For purposes of verifying signatures on any initiative, referendum, recall, nomination, or other election petition or paper, the elections official shall determine that the residence...
• California Elections Code Section 106
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law: (a) Any registered voter who is a candidate for any office may obtain signatures to and sign his or...
• California Elections Code Section 200
  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, there shall be set forth in full in the declaration of candidacy required for any primary or...
• California Elections Code Section 201
  Unless otherwise specifically provided, no person is eligible to be elected or appointed to an elective office unless that person is a registered voter and...
• California Elections Code Section 202
  Notwithstanding any other law, a person who is deployed on active military service outside of the state and is unable to appear to file a...
• California Elections Code Section 300
  (a) "Vote by mail voter" means any voter casting a ballot in any way other than at the polling place. (b) "Military or overseas voter"...
• California Elections Code Section 300.5
  "Affiliated with a political party" as used in reference to a voter or to a candidate for a voter-nominated office means the party preference that...
• California Elections Code Section 301
  A "ballot" means any of the following: (a) A single card with prescored, number positions that is marked by the voter with a punching device...
• California Elections Code Section 302
  "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...
• California Elections Code Section 303
  "Ballot label" means that portion of the ballot containing the names of the candidates or a statement of a measure. For statewide measures, the ballot...
• California Elections Code Section 303.3
  "Ballot marking system" means any mechanical, electromechanical, or electronic system and its software that is used for the sole purpose of marking a ballot for...
• California Elections Code Section 303.5
  (a) "Ballot title" is the name of a statewide measure included in the ballot label and the ballot title and summary. (b) "Ballot title and...
• California Elections Code Section 304
  "Campaign advertising or communication" means a communication authorized by a candidate or a candidate's controlled committee, as defined in Section 82016 of the Government Code,...
• California Elections Code Section 305
  (a)"Candidate," for purposes of Section 2184, includes any person who declares in writing, under penalty of perjury that he or she is a candidate, naming...
• California Elections Code Section 306
  "City measure" includes any proposed city charter, any proposed amendment to a city charter, any proposition for the issuance of bonds by the city, any...
• California Elections Code Section 307
  "Clerk" means the county elections official, registrar of voters, city clerk, or other officer or board charged with the duty of conducting any election.
• California Elections Code Section 308
  "District elections official," for the purposes of initiative and referendum under Article 1 (commencing with Section 9300) of Chapter 4 of Division 9, includes the...
• California Elections Code Section 309
  "Committee," as used in Article 1 (commencing with Section 20200) of Chapter 3 of Division 20, means any person or combination of persons who, directly...
• California Elections Code Section 310
  "County" and "city" both include "city and county."
• California Elections Code Section 312
  "County measure" includes any proposed county charter, any proposed amendment to a county charter, any proposition for the issuance of funding or refunding bonds of...
• California Elections Code Section 313
  "County office" means the office filled by any county officer.
• California Elections Code Section 314
  "County officer" means any elected officer enumerated in Division 2 (commencing with Section 24000) of Title 3 of the Government Code.
• California Elections Code Section 316
  "Direct primary" is the primary election held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in June in each even-numbered year, to nominate candidates to...
• California Elections Code Section 317
  "District," for purposes of initiative and referendum under Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 9300) of Division 9, includes any regional agency that has the power...
• California Elections Code Section 318
  "Election" means any election including a primary that is provided for under this code.
• California Elections Code Section 319
  "Election board" means the board of supervisors of each county, the city council or other governing body of a city, or any board or officer...
• California Elections Code Section 319.5
  "Electioneering" means the visible display or audible dissemination of information that advocates for or against any candidate or measure on the ballot within 100 feet...
• California Elections Code Section 320
  "Elections official" means any of the following: (a) A clerk or any person who is charged with the duty of conducting an election. (b) A...
• California Elections Code Section 321
  (a) "Elector" means any person who is a United States citizen 18 years of age or older and, except as specified in subdivision (b), is...
• California Elections Code Section 322
  "Electoral jurisdiction," as used in Division 11 (commencing with Section 11000), means the area within which the voters reside who are qualified to vote for...
• California Elections Code Section 323
  "Federal election" means any presidential election, general election, primary election, or special election held solely or in part for the purpose of selecting, nominating, or...
• California Elections Code Section 324
  (a) "General election" means either of the following: (1) The election held throughout the state on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November...
• California Elections Code Section 326
  "Judicial office" means the office filled by any judicial officer.
• California Elections Code Section 327
  "Judicial officer" means any Justice of the Supreme Court, justice of a court of appeal, or judge of the superior court.
• California Elections Code Section 328
  "Local election" is a municipal, county, or district election.
• California Elections Code Section 329
  "Measure" means any constitutional amendment or other proposition submitted to a popular vote at any election.
• California Elections Code Section 330
  "Municipal election" means elections in general law cities and where applicable in chartered cities.
• California Elections Code Section 331
  "New citizen" means any person who meets all requirements of an elector of, and has established residency in, the state, except that he or she...
• California Elections Code Section 332
  "New resident" means a person who meets all requirements of an elector of the State of California except that his or her residency was established...
• California Elections Code Section 332.5
  "Nominate" means the selection, at a state-conducted primary election, of candidates who are entitled by law to participate in the general election for that office,...
• California Elections Code Section 333
  "Nomination documents" means declaration of candidacy and nomination papers.
• California Elections Code Section 334
  "Nonpartisan office" means an office, except for a voter-nominated office, for which no party may nominate a candidate. Judicial, school, county, and municipal offices, including...
• California Elections Code Section 335
  "Oath" includes affirmation.
• California Elections Code Section 335.5
  The "official canvass" is the public process of processing and tallying all ballots received in an election, including, but not limited to, provisional ballots and...
• California Elections Code Section 336
  The "official summary date" is the date a circulating title and summary of a proposed initiative measure is delivered or mailed by the Attorney General...
• California Elections Code Section 336.5
  "One percent manual tally" is the public process of manually tallying votes in 1 percent of the precincts, selected at random by the elections official,...
• California Elections Code Section 337
  "Partisan office" or "party-nominated office" means any of the following offices: (a) President of the United States, Vice President of the United States, and the...
• California Elections Code Section 338
  "Party" means a political party or organization that has qualified for participation in any primary election.
• California Elections Code Section 339
  (a) "Precinct board" is the board appointed by the elections official to serve at a single precinct or a consolidated precinct. (b) "Precinct board," when...
• California Elections Code Section 340
  "Presidential primary" is the primary election that is held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in June in any year that is evenly...
• California Elections Code Section 341
  "Primary election" includes all primary nominating elections provided for by this code.
• California Elections Code Section 342
  "Proponent or proponents of an initiative or referendum measure" means, for statewide initiative and referendum measures, the elector or electors who submit the text of...
• California Elections Code Section 343
  "Proponent or proponents of a recall petition" means the person or persons who have charge or control of the circulation of, or obtaining signatures, to...
• California Elections Code Section 344
  "Punchcard" means a tabulating card on which the voter may record his or her vote by punching, marking, or slotting.
• California Elections Code Section 345
  "Punching" includes marking a ballot card to record a vote.
• California Elections Code Section 346
  "Rebuttable presumption" shall be deemed a presumption which affects the burden of producing evidence.
• California Elections Code Section 348
  "Regular election" is an election, the specific time for the holding of which is prescribed by law.
• California Elections Code Section 349
  (a) "Residence" for voting purposes means a person's domicile. (b) The domicile of a person is that place in which his or her habitation is...
• California Elections Code Section 350
  "School measure" means any proposition, including but not limited to, a proposal for the issuance of bonds by a school district or community college district,...
• California Elections Code Section 351
  "School office" means the office filled by any school officer.
• California Elections Code Section 352
  "School officer" means the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the superintendent of schools of a county.
• California Elections Code Section 353
  "Section" means a section of this code unless some other statute is specifically mentioned.
• California Elections Code Section 353.5
  The "semifinal official canvass" is the public process of collecting, processing, and tallying ballots and, for state or statewide elections, reporting results to the Secretary...
• California Elections Code Section 354
  "Shall" is mandatory and "may" is permissive.
• California Elections Code Section 354.5
  (a) "Signature" includes either of the following: (1) A person's mark if the name of the person affixing the mark is written near the mark...
• California Elections Code Section 355
  "Software" includes all programs, voting devices, cards, ballot cards or papers, operating manuals or instructions, test procedures, printouts, and other nonmechanical or nonelectrical items necessary...
• California Elections Code Section 356
  "Special election" is an election, the specific time for the holding of which is not prescribed by law.
• California Elections Code Section 357
  "Statewide election" is an election held throughout the state.
• California Elections Code Section 358
  "Vote tabulating device" means any piece of equipment, other than a voting machine, that compiles a total of votes cast by means of ballot card...
• California Elections Code Section 359
  "Voter" means any elector who is registered under this code.
• California Elections Code Section 359.5
  (a) "Voter-nominated office" means a congressional or state elective office for which a candidate may choose to have his or her party preference or lack...
• California Elections Code Section 360
  "Voting device" means any device used in conjunction with a ballot card or cards to indicate the choice of the voter by marking, punching, or...
• California Elections Code Section 361
  "Voting machine" means any device upon which a voter may register his or her vote, and which, by means of counters, embossing, or printouts, furnishes...
• California Elections Code Section 362
  "Voting system" means a mechanical, electromechanical, or electronic system and its software, or any combination of these used for casting a ballot, tabulating votes, or...
• California Elections Code Section 1000
  The established election dates in each year are as follows: (a) The second Tuesday of April in each even-numbered year. (b) The first Tuesday after...
• California Elections Code Section 1001
  Elections held in June and November of each even-numbered year are statewide elections and the dates of those elections are statewide election dates.
• California Elections Code Section 1002
  Except as provided in Section 1003, notwithstanding any other provisions of law, all state, county, municipal, district, and school district elections shall be held on...
• California Elections Code Section 1003
  This chapter shall not apply to the following: (a) Any special election called by the Governor. (b) Elections held in chartered cities or chartered counties...
• California Elections Code Section 1100
  No election shall be held on any day other than a Tuesday, nor shall any election be held on the day before, the day of,...
• California Elections Code Section 1200
  The statewide general election shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of each even-numbered year.
• California Elections Code Section 1201
  The statewide direct primary shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in June of each even-numbered year.
• California Elections Code Section 1202
  The presidential primary shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in June in any year that is evenly divisible by the...
• California Elections Code Section 1300
  Except as otherwise provided in the Government Code, an election to select county officers shall be held with the statewide primary at which candidates for...
• California Elections Code Section 1301
  (a) Except as required by Section 57379 of the Government Code, and except as provided in subdivision (b), a general municipal election shall be held...
• California Elections Code Section 1302
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the regular election to select governing board members in any school district, community college district, or county board...
• California Elections Code Section 1302.1
  In a community college district that includes the trustee areas authorized to be established pursuant to the second paragraph of Section 72022 of the Education...
• California Elections Code Section 1302.2
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, when an elementary, unified, high school, or community college district includes within its boundaries the same territory, or...
• California Elections Code Section 1302.3
  An annual election for members of the board of education shall be held in each unified district that is coterminous with or includes in its...
• California Elections Code Section 1302.4
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a regular election for members of the Long Beach Community College District governing board may be held, upon the...
• California Elections Code Section 1302.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon recommendation of the county superintendent of schools and with the approval of the county board of supervisors,...
• California Elections Code Section 1303
  (a) Unless the principal act of a district provides that an election shall be held on one of the other dates specified in Chapter 1...
• California Elections Code Section 1304
  Unless the principal act of a district provides that an election shall be held on one of the other dates specified in Chapter 1 (commencing...
• California Elections Code Section 1400
  Each special election shall be held on one of the established election dates set by this division or on the date of any statewide special...
• California Elections Code Section 1405
  (a) Except as provided below, the election for a county, municipal, or district initiative that qualifies pursuant to Section 9116, 9214, or 9310 shall be...
• California Elections Code Section 1410
  The election for a county or municipal referendum that qualifies pursuant to Section 9144 or 9237 shall be held at the jurisdiction's next regular election...
• California Elections Code Section 1415
  City or city and county charter proposals that qualify pursuant to Section 9255 shall be submitted to the voters at either the next regular general...
• California Elections Code Section 1500
  The established mailed ballot election dates are as follows: (a) The first Tuesday after the first Monday in May of each year. (b) The first...
• California Elections Code Section 2000
  (a) Every person who qualifies under Section 2 of Article II of the California Constitution and who complies with this code governing the registration of...
• California Elections Code Section 2020
  The term of domicile is computed by including the day on which the person's domicile commenced and by excluding the day of the election.
• California Elections Code Section 2021
  (a) A person who leaves his or her home to go into another state or precinct in this state for temporary purposes merely, with the...
• California Elections Code Section 2022
  If a person moves to another state with the intention of making it his or her domicile, the voter loses his or her domicile in...
• California Elections Code Section 2023
  If a person moves to another state as a place of permanent residence, with the intention of remaining there for an indefinite time, he or...
• California Elections Code Section 2024
  The mere intention to acquire a new domicile, without the fact of removal avails nothing, neither does the fact of removal without the intention.
• California Elections Code Section 2025
  A person does not gain or lose a domicile solely by reason of his or her presence or absence from a place while employed in...
• California Elections Code Section 2026
  The domicile of a Member of the Legislature or a Representative in the Congress of the United States shall be conclusively presumed to be at...
• California Elections Code Section 2027
  The place where a person's family is domiciled is his or her domicile unless it is a place for temporary establishment for his or her...
• California Elections Code Section 2028
  If a person has a family fixed in one place, and he or she does business in another, the former is his or her place...
• California Elections Code Section 2029
  The domicile of one spouse shall not be presumed to be that of the other, but shall be determined independently in accordance with this article.
• California Elections Code Section 2030
  A domiciliary of this state who marries a person employed temporarily in this state in the service of the United States government, may elect to...
• California Elections Code Section 2031
  If a person has more than one residence and that person maintains a homeowner's property tax exemption on the dwelling of one of the residences...
• California Elections Code Section 2032
  Except as provided in this article, if a person has more than one residence and that person has not physically resided at any one of...
• California Elections Code Section 2033
  Whenever the house number or the mailing address of a voter has been changed and the voter's domicile is the same, the public agency authorizing...
• California Elections Code Section 2034
  A person domiciled in a house or apartment lying in more than one precinct shall be registered as domiciled in the precinct designated by the...
• California Elections Code Section 2035
  A person duly registered as a voter in any precinct in California who removes therefrom within 14 days prior to an election shall, for the...
• California Elections Code Section 2050
  This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the Visually Impaired Voter Assistance Act of 1989.
• California Elections Code Section 2051
  As used in this article, "visually impaired" means a person having central visual acuity not to exceed 20-200 in the better eye, with corrected lenses,...
• California Elections Code Section 2052
  It is the intent of the Legislature to promote the fundamental right to vote of visually impaired individuals, and to make efforts to improve public...
• California Elections Code Section 2053
  (a) The Secretary of State shall establish a Visually Impaired Voter Assistance Advisory Board. This board shall consist of the Secretary of State or his...
• California Elections Code Section 2100
  No person shall be registered except as provided in this chapter except upon the production and filing of a certified copy of a judgment of...
• California Elections Code Section 2101
  A person entitled to register to vote shall be a United States citizen, a resident of California, not in prison or on parole for the...
• California Elections Code Section 2102
  (a) A person may not be registered as a voter except by affidavit of registration. The affidavit shall be mailed or delivered to the county...
• California Elections Code Section 2103
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the election board of each county, in order to promote and encourage voter registrations, shall establish...
• California Elections Code Section 2104
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the introduction of registration by mail shall not in any way lead to administrative limitations on the...
• California Elections Code Section 2105
  It is the intent of the Legislature that voter registration be maintained at the highest possible level. The Secretary of State shall adopt regulations requiring...
• California Elections Code Section 2106
  Any program adopted by a county pursuant to Section 2103 or 2105, that is designed to encourage the registration of electors, shall, with respect to...
• California Elections Code Section 2107
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the county elections official shall accept affidavits of registration at all times except during the 14 days immediately...
• California Elections Code Section 2108
  The county elections official shall keep and maintain a current file listing all persons appointed or deputized by the county elections official to register voters,...
• California Elections Code Section 2109
  Any person who is a registered voter qualifies for appointment as a deputy registrar of voters.
• California Elections Code Section 2110
  No county elections official may refuse to deputize any person to register voters because of ancestry, marital status, political affiliation, or any characteristic listed or...
• California Elections Code Section 2111
  A person may prove he or she is a citizen by his or her certification under penalty of perjury on the affidavit of registration.
• California Elections Code Section 2112
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the fact that a person certifies to his or her United States citizenship by signing his...
• California Elections Code Section 2113
  Any elector absent from the county in which he or she claims residence may request a voter registration card from the county elections official of...
• California Elections Code Section 2114
  The county elections official of any county in this state may receive the affidavit of registration of any elector who resides or claims residence in...
• California Elections Code Section 2115
  Whenever a voter, between the time of that person's last registration and the time for the closing of registration for any given election in the...
• California Elections Code Section 2116
  (a) Whenever a voter, between the time of that person's last voter registration and the time for the closing of registration for any given election,...
• California Elections Code Section 2117
  Except as provided in Section 2119, if a voter reregisters or transfers his or her registration from one precinct to another, the former address shall...
• California Elections Code Section 2118
  No person shall register in one county when his or her registration in another remains uncanceled unless he or she complies with this section. Any...
• California Elections Code Section 2118.5
  (a) If a voter is erroneously assigned to a precinct, the voter may apply to the elections official for a certificate showing the record of...
• California Elections Code Section 2119
  (a) In lieu of executing a new affidavit of registration for a change of address within the county the county elections official shall accept a...
• California Elections Code Section 2120
  If the county elections official receives a letter from a voter stating that the voter has moved to a new address in another county in...
• California Elections Code Section 2121
  No fees may be charged for registration.
• California Elections Code Section 2122
  The county elections official may cause to be written or printed upon the top margin, or in the body of the affidavit, in addition to...
• California Elections Code Section 2123
  In accordance with Section 11 of the initiative act approved by a majority of the voters at the general election held on November 4, 1930,...
• California Elections Code Section 2124
  The Secretary of State shall, by regulation, adopt uniform standards for proof of residency, which shall apply in all instances where voters and new registrants...
• California Elections Code Section 2130
  From moneys appropriated by the Legislature, the Controller shall allocate and disburse to the counties the amounts necessary to reimburse them for net costs incurred...
• California Elections Code Section 2131
  The Secretary of State may provide grants to local elections officials, nonprofit corporations, and unincorporated associations for the following purposes: (a) To conduct voter outreach...
• California Elections Code Section 2135
  The county elections official shall provide voter registration forms for use in registration by deputy registrars of voters. The voter registration forms shall be bound...
• California Elections Code Section 2136
  Each deputy registrar of voters shall be issued a receipt by the county elections official for all books or pads issued, specifying the numbers of...
• California Elections Code Section 2137
  When any elector is registered, his or her name, residence, and residence telephone number, if furnished, shall be entered on the stub attached to the...
• California Elections Code Section 2138
  Individuals and organizations distributing voter registration cards pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 2158 and who receive completed voter registration cards from voters shall return...
• California Elections Code Section 2138.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an affiant's driver's license number, identification card number, and social security number, contained on an affidavit of registration or...
• California Elections Code Section 2139
  On the day of the close of registration for any election all deputy registrars of voters or individuals and organizations that have submitted plans for...
• California Elections Code Section 2140
  The county elections official shall report to the district attorney of the county, under oath, the name of any deputy registrar of voters who has...
• California Elections Code Section 2141
  If the county elections official deems a duplicate file of voter registration cards to be necessary for administrative purposes, the county elections official may prepare,...
• California Elections Code Section 2142
  (a) If the county elections official refuses to register any qualified elector in the county, the elector may proceed by action in the superior court...
• California Elections Code Section 2143
  Costs shall not be recovered against the county elections official in any action under this chapter, unless it is alleged in the complaint, and established...
• California Elections Code Section 2145
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the Student Voter Registration Act of 2003.
• California Elections Code Section 2146
  (a) The Secretary of State shall annually provide every high school, community college, and California State University and University of California campus with voter registration...
• California Elections Code Section 2148
  (a) Every high school, community college, and California State University campus shall designate a contact person and provide his or her address, telephone number, and...
• California Elections Code Section 2150
  (a) The affidavit of registration shall show: (1) The facts necessary to establish the affiant as an elector. (2) The affiant's name at length, including...
• California Elections Code Section 2151
  (a) At the time of registering and of transferring registration, an elector may disclose the name of the political party that he or she prefers....
• California Elections Code Section 2152
  Whenever any voter has declined to disclose or has changed his or her party preference prior to the close of registration for an election, he...
• California Elections Code Section 2153
  (a) Except as provided in Section 2154, the affidavit of registration shall show all the facts required to be stated. (b) If the affidavit does...
• California Elections Code Section 2154
  In the event that the county elections official receives an affidavit of registration that does not include portions of the information for which space is...
• California Elections Code Section 2155
  Upon receipt of a properly executed affidavit of registration or address correction notice or letter pursuant to Section 2119, Article 2 (commencing with Section 2220),...
• California Elections Code Section 2155.5
  (a) The Secretary of State may, in coordination with county elections officials who choose to participate, develop specific procedures to address complaints related to voter...
• California Elections Code Section 2156
  The Secretary of State shall print, or cause to be printed, the blank forms of the voter notification prescribed by Section 2155. The Secretary of...
• California Elections Code Section 2157
  (a) Subject to this chapter, the paper affidavit of registration shall be in a form prescribed by regulations adopted by the Secretary of State. The...
• California Elections Code Section 2157.1
  It is the intent of the Legislature that a voter be fully informed of the permissible uses of personal information supplied by him or her...
• California Elections Code Section 2157.2
  In order that a voter be fully informed of the permissible uses of personal information supplied by him or her for the purpose of completing...
• California Elections Code Section 2158
  In addition to registration conducted by deputy registrars of voters, the county elections official shall do all of the following: (a) Provide voter registration cards...
• California Elections Code Section 2159
  (a) Notwithstanding paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 2158, any person who, in exchange for money or other valuable consideration, assists another to register...
• California Elections Code Section 2159.5
  Any person, company, or other organization that agrees to pay money or other valuable consideration, whether on a per-affidavit basis or otherwise, to any person...
• California Elections Code Section 2160
  (a) Each affidavit of registration issued to a deputy registrar of voters shall meet the requirements prescribed by Section 2157, except that the voter registration...
• California Elections Code Section 2161
  The Secretary of State shall print, or cause to be printed, the blank forms of the affidavits of registration and voter registration cards prescribed by...
• California Elections Code Section 2162
  (a) No affidavits of registration other than those provided by the Secretary of State to the county elections officials or the national voter registration forms...
• California Elections Code Section 2163
  The Secretary of State shall prepare and print or cause to be printed an appropriate logo that may be displayed on the windows of offices,...
• California Elections Code Section 2164
  (a) The Secretary of State shall pay all postage for all of the following: (1) Mailing of the voter notification and the address correction service...
• California Elections Code Section 2165
  Affidavits of registration for the whole of each county shall be filed, as fast as the registration progresses, in any orderly arrangement as prescribed by...
• California Elections Code Section 2166
  (a) Any person filing with the county elections official a new affidavit of registration or reregistration may have the information relating to his or her...
• California Elections Code Section 2166.5
  (a) Any person filing with the county elections official a new affidavit of registration or reregistration may have the information relating to his or her...
• California Elections Code Section 2166.7
  (a) If authorized by his or her county board of supervisors, a county elections official shall, upon application of a public safety officer, make confidential...
• California Elections Code Section 2167
  Upon the personal or written application of any person, the county elections official shall, at a fee not to exceed one dollar and fifty cents...
• California Elections Code Section 2168
  (a) The Secretary of State shall establish a statewide system to facilitate removal of duplicate or prior registrations, to facilitate the reporting of election results...
• California Elections Code Section 2170
  (a) "Conditional voter registration" means a properly executed affidavit of registration, which is delivered by the registrant to a county elections official during the 14...
• California Elections Code Section 2171
  (a) A conditional voter registration accepted under this article shall include the information required by Article 4 (commencing with Section 2150). (b) A conditional voter...
• California Elections Code Section 2172
  (a) The elections official shall cancel any duplicate voter registrations that may exist as a result of a conditional registration deemed effective and shall cancel...
• California Elections Code Section 2173
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a person who commits fraud in the execution of a conditional voter registration pursuant to this article shall be punishable...
• California Elections Code Section 2180
  (a) At least once, and more often if he or she deems it necessary, within each two-year period commencing on the first day of January...
• California Elections Code Section 2181
  In addition to printing a complete index within and for each two-year period, as provided in Section 2180, the county elections official may print and...
• California Elections Code Section 2182
  The number of copies of the precinct index printed shall be as many as in the judgment of the county elections official may be necessary...
• California Elections Code Section 2183
  The elections official shall supply copies of the index and of supplements to the index, necessary to bring it up to date, for all elections...
• California Elections Code Section 2184
  Upon demand of any Member of the Legislature, of Congress, or any candidate who is to be voted for in the county, in a city...
• California Elections Code Section 2185
  Upon written demand of the chair or vice chair of a party state central committee or of the chair of a party county central committee,...
• California Elections Code Section 2187
  (a) Each county elections official shall send to the Secretary of State, in a format described by the Secretary of State, a summary statement of...
• California Elections Code Section 2188
  (a) Any application for voter registration information available pursuant to law and maintained by the Secretary of State or by the elections official of any...
• California Elections Code Section 2188.1
  The Secretary of State shall study the feasibility of inserting fictitious names of voters into the voter registration information database as a possible investigative and...
• California Elections Code Section 2188.5
  (a) A person who requests voter information pursuant to Section 2188 or who obtains signatures or other information collected for an initiative, referendum, or recall...
• California Elections Code Section 2189
  Before the day of any election held throughout the county, the county elections official shall deliver to the precinct board in each precinct three copies...
• California Elections Code Section 2190
  If the county elections official maintains tabulating cards containing the information set forth in the affidavits of registration of voters, or sets forth that information...
• California Elections Code Section 2191
  The elections official shall compile an index, list, or file, by precinct, of all persons who voted in the previous statewide general election. This information...
• California Elections Code Section 2192
  Notwithstanding anything contained in this article, in any county in which tabulating equipment is used to produce the indexes of registration, the indexes shall be...
• California Elections Code Section 2193
  The Secretary of State shall, upon the request of a county elections official, compile, from the information furnished by the county elections officials pursuant to...
• California Elections Code Section 2194
  (a) The voter registration card information identified in subdivision (a) of Section 6254.4 of the Government Code: (1) Shall be confidential and shall not appear...
• California Elections Code Section 2196
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person who is qualified to register to vote and who has a valid California driver's license...
• California Elections Code Section 2197
  No later than July 1, 2014, the California Health Benefit Exchange shall implement a process and the infrastructure to allow a person who applies online...
• California Elections Code Section 2200
  The registration of a voter is permanent for all purposes during his or her life, unless and until the affidavit of registration is canceled by...
• California Elections Code Section 2201
  The county elections official shall cancel the registration in the following cases: (a) At the signed, written request of the person registered. (b) When the...
• California Elections Code Section 2202
  (a) The county elections official shall preserve all uncanceled affidavits of registration in a secure manner that will protect the confidentiality of the voter information...
• California Elections Code Section 2203
  (a) Cancellation is made by writing or stamping on the affidavit of registration the word "canceled," the reason the affidavit was canceled, and the date...
• California Elections Code Section 2204
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever a voter changes his or her residence within the same precinct, the voter's affidavit of registration shall not...
• California Elections Code Section 2205
  The local registrar of births and deaths shall notify the county elections official not later than the 15th day of each month of all deceased...
• California Elections Code Section 2206
  The Secretary of State shall adopt regulations to facilitate the availability of death statistics from the State Department of Health Services. The data shall be...
• California Elections Code Section 2208
  (a) A person shall be deemed mentally incompetent, and therefore disqualified from voting, if, during the course of any of the proceedings set forth below,...
• California Elections Code Section 2209
  (a) For conservatorships established pursuant to Division 4 (commencing with Section 1400) of the Probate Code, the court investigator shall, during the yearly or biennial...
• California Elections Code Section 2210
  (a) If the person or the person and estate is under a conservatorship established pursuant to Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 5350) of Part 1...
• California Elections Code Section 2211
  (a) Any person who (1) has plead not guilty by reason of insanity and who has been found to be not guilty pursuant to Section...
• California Elections Code Section 2212
  The clerk of the superior court of each county, on the basis of the records of the court, shall furnish to the chief elections official...
• California Elections Code Section 2213
  Any person may proceed by action in the superior court to compel the county elections official to cancel any registration made illegally or which should...
• California Elections Code Section 2220
  (a) The county elections official shall conduct a preelection residency confirmation procedure as provided in this article. This procedure shall be completed by the 90th...
• California Elections Code Section 2221
  (a) Based on the postal notices on the returned residency confirmation postcards received pursuant to Section 2220, the county elections official shall take the following...
• California Elections Code Section 2222
  In lieu of mailing a residency confirmation postcard, as prescribed in subdivision (a) of Section 2220, the county elections official may contract with the United...
• California Elections Code Section 2223
  (a) In lieu of mailing a residency confirmation postcard to each registered voter in the county, the county elections official may include the return address...
• California Elections Code Section 2224
  (a) If a voter has not voted in an election within the preceding four years, and his or her residence address, name, or party affiliation...
• California Elections Code Section 2225
  (a) Based on change-of-address data received from the United States Postal Service or its licensees, the county elections official shall send a forwardable notice, including...
• California Elections Code Section 2226
  (a) Based on change-of-address information received pursuant to Sections 2220 to 2225, inclusive, or change-of-address information provided directly by the voter, the county elections official...
• California Elections Code Section 2227
  (a) In lieu of mailing a residency confirmation postcard, as prescribed in subdivision (a) of Section 2220, the county elections official may contract with a...
• California Elections Code Section 2240
  From moneys appropriated by the Legislature, the Controller shall reimburse counties for additional costs incurred by counties for purging voter registration files pursuant to Article...
• California Elections Code Section 2241
  Any claim submitted to the Controller pursuant to this article shall state that the county had reimbursable costs and the number of registered voters in...
• California Elections Code Section 2250
  On and after July 1, 2007, in any document mailed by a state agency that offers a person the opportunity to register to vote pursuant...
• California Elections Code Section 2300
  (a) All voters, pursuant to the California Constitution and this code, shall be citizens of the United States. There shall be a Voter Bill of...
• California Elections Code Section 2400
  It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this chapter, to facilitate compliance with the requirements set forth in the federal National Voter Registration...
• California Elections Code Section 2401
  For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Voter preference form" means the form described in Section 1973gg-5(a)(6)(B) of Title...
• California Elections Code Section 2402
  (a) The Secretary of State is the chief state elections official responsible for coordination of the state's responsibilities under the federal National Voter Registration Act...
• California Elections Code Section 2403
  (a) A voter registration agency shall comply with the applicable duties and responsibilities of a voter registration agency set forth in the federal National Voter...
• California Elections Code Section 2404
  (a) The Secretary of State shall do all of the following: (1) Coordinate with each county elections official and voter registration agency to implement this...
• California Elections Code Section 2405
  (a) A county elections official shall be responsible for coordinating with the Secretary of State and each applicable voter registration agency within the county to...
• California Elections Code Section 2406
  (a) A voter registration agency shall do all of the following: (1) Notify the county elections official of each applicable county of the location of...
• California Elections Code Section 2407
  Within 10 days after the beginning of each calendar month, a county elections official shall report to the Secretary of State, on a form prescribed...
• California Elections Code Section 2408
  (a) A voter registration agency that allows a person to apply online for service or assistance, or to submit a recertification, renewal, or change of...
• California Elections Code Section 3000
  This division shall be liberally construed in favor of the vote by mail voter.
• California Elections Code Section 3001
  Except as provided in Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 3200) and Sections 3007.5 and 3007.7, application for a vote by mail voter's ballot shall be...
• California Elections Code Section 3002
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 3001, a person granted confidentiality pursuant to Section 2166 shall be considered a vote by mail voter. (b) The provisions of Chapter...
• California Elections Code Section 3003
  The vote by mail ballot shall be available to any registered voter.
• California Elections Code Section 3004
  The county elections official shall place a notice in any office within the county where applications are taken for federal passports or where military enlistments...
• California Elections Code Section 3005
  Whenever, on the 88th day before the election, there are 250 or less persons registered to vote in any precinct, the elections official may furnish...
• California Elections Code Section 3006
  (a) A printed application that is to be distributed to a voter for requesting a vote by mail voter's ballot shall inform the voter that...
• California Elections Code Section 3007
  The Secretary of State shall prepare and distribute to appropriate elections officials a uniform application format for a vote by mail voter's ballot that conforms...
• California Elections Code Section 3007.5
  (a) The Secretary of State shall prepare and distribute to appropriate elections officials a uniform electronic application format for a vote by mail voter's ballot...
• California Elections Code Section 3007.7
  (a) The local elections official may offer a voter the ability to electronically apply for a vote by mail voter's ballot. If the local elections...
• California Elections Code Section 3008
  (a) Any individual, organization, or group that distributes applications for vote by mail voter ballots and receives completed application forms shall return the forms to...
• California Elections Code Section 3009
  (a) Upon receipt of any vote by mail ballot application signed by the voter that arrives within the proper time, the elections official should determine...
• California Elections Code Section 3010
  The elections official shall deliver to each qualified applicant: (a) The ballot for the precinct in which he or she resides. In primary elections this...
• California Elections Code Section 3011
  (a) The identification envelope shall contain all of the following: (1) A declaration, under penalty of perjury, stating that the voter resides within the precinct...
• California Elections Code Section 3012
  Whenever the elections official is required to mail a vote by mail voter's ballot to any elector and the address to which the ballot is...
• California Elections Code Section 3013
  Upon delivering or mailing a vote by mail voter's ballot, the elections official shall enter on the application of the vote by mail voter, or...
• California Elections Code Section 3014
  The elections official shall send a second vote by mail voter ballot to any voter upon receipt of a statement under penalty of perjury that...
• California Elections Code Section 3015
  Vote by mail voters who return to their home precincts on election day may vote only if they surrender their vote by mail voter ballots...
• California Elections Code Section 3016
  Any vote by mail voter who is unable to surrender his or her vote by mail voter's ballot within the meaning of Section 3015 shall...
• California Elections Code Section 3017
  (a) All vote by mail ballots cast under this division shall be voted on or before the day of the election. After marking the ballot,...
• California Elections Code Section 3018
  (a) Any voter using a vote by mail ballot may, prior to the close of the polls on election day, vote the ballot at the...
• California Elections Code Section 3019
  Upon receipt of the vote by mail ballot the elections official shall compare the signature on the envelope with that appearing on the affidavit of...
• California Elections Code Section 3020
  All vote by mail ballots cast under this division shall be received by the elections official from whom they were obtained or by the precinct...
• California Elections Code Section 3021
  After the close of the period for requesting vote by mail voter ballots by mail any voter unable to go to the polls because of...
• California Elections Code Section 3022
  The elections official shall include with the sample ballot an application for a vote by mail ballot.
• California Elections Code Section 3023
  Each ballot that is delivered pursuant to this chapter shall be accompanied by a ballot pamphlet, unless the voter has already been provided a ballot
• California Elections Code Section 3024
  The cost to administer vote by mail ballots where issues and elective offices related to school districts, as defined by Section 17519 of the Government...
• California Elections Code Section 3101
  (a) The Secretary of State shall see that this chapter is enforced pursuant to Section 12172.5 of the Government Code. (b) The Secretary of State...
• California Elections Code Section 3102
  (a) Any voter who qualifies as a military or overseas voter pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 300 shall have the right to register for,...
• California Elections Code Section 3103
  Upon timely receipt of an application received pursuant to Section 3102, the elections official shall examine the application to ascertain that it is properly executed...
• California Elections Code Section 3104
  Applications for the ballots of military or overseas voters shall be received and, except as provided in Section 3106, the ballots shall be received and...
• California Elections Code Section 3105
  (a) Any application made pursuant to this chapter that is received by the elections official prior to the 60th day before the election shall be...
• California Elections Code Section 3106
  (a) A military or overseas voter who is living outside of the territorial limits of the United States or the District of Columbia, or is...
• California Elections Code Section 3107
  When the application is received by an elections official, other than a county elections official, the elections official receiving it shall, after the election, transmit...
• California Elections Code Section 3108
  If a military or overseas voter who is qualified pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 300 is released from service after the...
• California Elections Code Section 3109
  If any military or overseas voter to whom a vote by mail ballot has been mailed and which ballot has not been voted by him...
• California Elections Code Section 3110
  If any military or overseas voter returns to the county of his or her residence, or for a military or overseas voter qualified pursuant to...
• California Elections Code Section 3111
  If a military or overseas voter is unable to appear at his or her polling place because of being recalled to service after the final...
• California Elections Code Section 3112
  Whenever by any statute of the United States, provision is made for vote by mail, an application for a vote by mail ballot made under...
• California Elections Code Section 3113
  If by any act of Congress which is now or may become effective during the effective period of this section, provision is made for voting...
• California Elections Code Section 3114
  (a) For an election for which this state has not received a waiver pursuant to the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act (42 U.S.C. Sec....
• California Elections Code Section 3116
  A military or overseas voter may use a federal write-in absentee ballot to vote for all offices and ballot measures described in subdivision (a) of...
• California Elections Code Section 3117
  A valid ballot cast shall be counted if it is received by the elections official by the time the polls close on the day of...
• California Elections Code Section 3118
  The elections official shall include with the ballot a declaration to be signed by the military or overseas voter that a material misstatement of fact...
• California Elections Code Section 3119
  Elections officials shall implement an electronic free access system by which a military or overseas voter may determine by telephone, electronic mail, or Internet whether...
• California Elections Code Section 3120
  The elections official shall request an electronic mail address from each military or overseas voter who registers to vote after the effective date of this...
• California Elections Code Section 3121
  (a) As soon as practicable before an election, each elections official shall publish on his or her Internet Web site a list of all of...
• California Elections Code Section 3122
  (a) If a military or overseas voter's mistake or omission in the completion of a document under this chapter does not prevent determining whether a...
• California Elections Code Section 3123
  A court may issue an injunction or grant other equitable relief appropriate to ensure substantial compliance with, or enforce, this chapter on application by either...
• California Elections Code Section 3200
  A voter who qualifies under this chapter shall be entitled to become a permanent vote by mail voter.
• California Elections Code Section 3201
  Any voter may apply for permanent vote by mail status. Application for permanent vote by mail status shall be made in accordance with Section 3001,...
• California Elections Code Section 3202
  In lieu of executing the application set forth in Section 3201, any voter may execute a request for permanent vote by mail status by making...
• California Elections Code Section 3203
  (a) Upon receipt of an application for permanent vote by mail status, the county elections official shall process the application in the same manner as...
• California Elections Code Section 3204
  The county elections official shall send a copy of the list of all voters who qualify as permanent vote by mail voters to each city...
• California Elections Code Section 3205
  (a) Vote by mail ballots mailed to, and received from, voters on the permanent vote by mail voter list are subject to the same deadlines...
• California Elections Code Section 3206
  A voter whose name appears on the permanent vote by mail voter list shall remain on the list and shall be mailed a vote by...
• California Elections Code Section 3400
  Registration for new residents shall be in progress beginning with the 14th day prior to an election and ending on the seventh day prior to...
• California Elections Code Section 3402
  The Secretary of State shall have blank affidavits of registration prepared for new residents that contain the information required in Section 2157. The affidavit shall...
• California Elections Code Section 3403
  The envelope into which a new resident is to place the ballot shall bear upon its face the name and official title of the county...
• California Elections Code Section 3404
  The new resident shall mark the ballot, place it in the identification envelope, and fill out and sign the declaration printed on the identification envelope.
• California Elections Code Section 3405
  The ballots of new residents shall be received and canvassed at the same time and under the same procedure as vote by mail voter ballots,...
• California Elections Code Section 3408
  The county elections official shall keep open to public inspection a list showing the names and addresses of all persons who have voted as new
• California Elections Code Section 3500
  A new citizen is eligible to register and vote at the office of, or at another location designated by, the county elections official at any...
• California Elections Code Section 3501
  A new citizen registering to vote after the close of registration shall provide the county elections official with proof of citizenship prior to voting, and...
• California Elections Code Section 3502
  The ballots of new citizens shall be received and canvassed at the same time and under the same procedure as vote by mail voter ballots,...
• California Elections Code Section 3503
  The county elections official shall keep open to public inspection a list of all persons who have registered as new citizens.
• California Elections Code Section 4000
  A local, special, or consolidated election may be conducted wholly by mail provided that all of the following conditions apply: (a) The governing body of...
• California Elections Code Section 4001
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 4000 or any other law, as a pilot program, elections in Yolo County may be conducted wholly by mail if all of...
• California Elections Code Section 4002
  Notwithstanding Section 4000, a special district may conduct its elections by mail in accordance with Sections 1500, 4104, 4105, and 4108.
• California Elections Code Section 4003
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever any district has adopted the all-mailed ballot procedure for conducting general district elections pursuant to Section 4104 and...
• California Elections Code Section 4004
  (a) "Small city" means a city with a population of 100,000 or less, as determined by the annual city total population rankings by the Demographic...
• California Elections Code Section 4100
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, mail ballot elections shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 3000) of Division 3.
• California Elections Code Section 4101
  Notwithstanding Sections 13300 and 13303, the elections official shall not commence to mail the combined sample ballot and mail ballot prior to the 29th day...
• California Elections Code Section 4102
  The elections official may include in the mailings set forth in Section 4101 a printed notice to the voters informing the voters that they may...
• California Elections Code Section 4103
  Notwithstanding Section 3020, ballots cast under this chapter shall be returned to the elections official from whom they were obtained no later than 8 p.m....
• California Elections Code Section 4104
  (a) At the first general district election conducted by all-mailed ballot the following question shall be printed on the ballot and boxes shall be provided...
• California Elections Code Section 4105
  The question set forth in Section 4104, as to whether an all-mailed ballot election is required to be used in the conduct of all future...
• California Elections Code Section 4106
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a governing board in the County of San Diego may adopt a resolution requiring its...
• California Elections Code Section 4107
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the governing board of the Marina County Water District in the County of Monterey may adopt a resolution...
• California Elections Code Section 4108
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of law and regardless of the number of eligible voters within its boundaries a district may, by resolution of its governing...
• California Elections Code Section 5000
  (a) For purposes of this division, the definition of "party" in Section 338 is applicable. (b) This chapter shall apply to political bodies and to...
• California Elections Code Section 5001
  Whenever a group of electors desires to qualify a new political party meeting the requirements of Section 5100, that group shall form a political body...
• California Elections Code Section 5002
  Upon receipt of the notice specified in Section 5001, the Secretary of State shall notify each county elections official of the name of the political...
• California Elections Code Section 5003
  A political body within the first 70 days after filing the formal notice required by Section 5001 is entitled, upon request to the Secretary of...
• California Elections Code Section 5004
  If by the 135th day before any primary election, a political body filing notice pursuant to Section 5001 has not qualified as a political party...
• California Elections Code Section 5005
  Until otherwise provided for by statute, a political party newly qualified pursuant to Section 5100 shall carry on its activities in accordance with procedures applicable...
• California Elections Code Section 5006
  Any political party newly qualifying pursuant to Section 5100 shall conduct its presidential primary election in accordance with procedures applicable to any other political party...
• California Elections Code Section 5100
  A party is qualified to participate in any primary election under any of the following conditions: (a) If at the last preceding gubernatorial election there...
• California Elections Code Section 5100.5
  (a) Upon the occurrence of the gubernatorial election, each party shall have its qualifications reviewed by the Secretary of State. A party that does not...
• California Elections Code Section 5101
  Whenever the registration of any party that qualified in the previous direct primary election falls below one-fifteenth of 1 percent of the total state registration,...
• California Elections Code Section 5102
  No party shall be recognized or qualified to participate in any primary election that either directly or indirectly carries on, advocates, teaches, justifies, aids, or...
• California Elections Code Section 5200
  Not less than 123 days before a primary election, the Secretary of State shall, with the advice and consent of the Attorney General, determine which...
• California Elections Code Section 6000
  All references to a voter's or candidate's party "registration" or "affiliation" in this part shall refer to the party preference or lack of party preference...
• California Elections Code Section 6000a
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Alquist Open Presidential Primary Act."
• California Elections Code Section 6001
  This chapter applies to the Democratic Party.
• California Elections Code Section 6002
  (a) This chapter applies both to the selection of delegates and alternates pledged to the candidacy of a particular candidate and to the selection of...
• California Elections Code Section 6003
  Participation in the delegate selection process in primaries shall be restricted to voters whose affidavits of registration declare the Democratic Party as their party affiliation...
• California Elections Code Section 6020
  (a) The Chairperson of the Democratic State Central Committee shall notify the Secretary of State on or before the 120th day preceding the presidential primary...
• California Elections Code Section 6023
  The notification of the number of delegates and alternate delegates shall be in substantially the following form: Statement of Number of Delegates and Alternate Delegates...
• California Elections Code Section 6024
  If the Chairperson of the Democratic State Central Committee fails to file the notice required by Section 6020 with the Secretary of State, the Secretary...
• California Elections Code Section 6040
  This article shall apply to the designation of candidates by the Secretary of State for placement only on the presidential primary ballot.
• California Elections Code Section 6041
  The Secretary of State shall place the name of a candidate upon the presidential primary ballot when he or she has determined that the candidate...
• California Elections Code Section 6042
  When the Secretary of State decides to place the name of a candidate on the ballot pursuant to Section 6041, he or she shall notify...
• California Elections Code Section 6043
  If a selected candidate or an unselected candidate files with the Secretary of State, no later than the time specified in Section 6042, an affidavit...
• California Elections Code Section 6060
  This article shall apply to the qualification for placement on the presidential primary ballot of candidates who are not selected candidates as referred to in...
• California Elections Code Section 6061
  Any unselected candidate or uncommitted delegation desiring to be placed on the presidential primary ballot shall have nomination papers circulated on behalf of the candidacy....
• California Elections Code Section 6080
  Each candidate who seeks to qualify under Article 4 (commencing with Section 6060) and each group proposing an uncommitted delegation shall appoint a steering committee...
• California Elections Code Section 6081
  The chairperson of a steering committee, at least 82 days prior to the presidential primary, shall file with the Secretary of State a statement containing...
• California Elections Code Section 6082
  Each steering committee shall be responsible for the circulation of nomination papers of candidates who seek to qualify under Article 4 (commencing with Section 6060)...
• California Elections Code Section 6101
  Nomination papers to be circulated pursuant to Section 6061 shall be prepared, circulated, signed, and verified and shall be left for examination with the county...
• California Elections Code Section 6102
  Upon the filing of nomination papers pursuant to Section 6061 signed by the required number of voters, the candidate or uncommitted delegation named in the...
• California Elections Code Section 6103
  Upon receipt of a sufficient number of signatures for the presidential primary ballot, the Secretary of State shall notify the chairperson of the steering committee...
• California Elections Code Section 6104
  Each signer of a nomination paper may sign only one paper. Each signer shall print his or her name, indicate his or her place of...
• California Elections Code Section 6105
  Any nomination paper may be presented in sections. Each section shall contain the name of the candidate or chairperson of the steering committee in the...
• California Elections Code Section 6106
  Each section shall be prepared with the lines for signatures numbered, and shall have attached the affidavit of the circulator who obtained signatures to it,...
• California Elections Code Section 6107
  A verified nomination paper is prima facie evidence that the signatures are genuine and that the persons signing it are voters, until it is otherwise...
• California Elections Code Section 6108
  The nomination paper for the presidential primary ballot shall be in substantially the following form: SECTION OF NOMINATION PAPER SIGNED BY VOTER ON BEHALF OF...
• California Elections Code Section 6122
  Circulators may obtain signatures to the nomination paper for which they were appointed at any time between the period of 130 days and 73 days,...
• California Elections Code Section 6123
  A county elections official or his or her deputy may not circulate a nomination paper and circulators may not obtain signatures within 100 feet of...
• California Elections Code Section 6140
  Each section of a nomination paper, after being verified, shall be returned by the circulator who circulated it to the steering committee, or to its...
• California Elections Code Section 6141
  Prior to filing, the sections of a nomination paper shall be numbered in order.
• California Elections Code Section 6142
  Nomination papers, properly assembled, may be consolidated and fastened together by counties, but nomination papers signed by voters in different counties shall not be fastened
• California Elections Code Section 6143
  The county elections official shall examine all nomination papers left with him or her for examination and shall disregard and mark "not sufficient" the name...
• California Elections Code Section 6144
  Within five days after any nomination papers are left with him or her for examination, the county elections official shall: (a) Examine and affix to...
• California Elections Code Section 6145
  The county elections official's certificate to nomination papers shall be in substantially the following form: Certificate of County Elections Official to Nomination Papers To the...
• California Elections Code Section 6146
  No filing fee shall be required from any person in order to file nomination papers.
• California Elections Code Section 6160
  At least 68 days before a presidential primary, the Secretary of State shall notify each steering committee whether or not it has qualified a candidate...
• California Elections Code Section 6180
  At least 68 days before a presidential primary election, the Secretary of State shall transmit to each county elections official a certified list containing the...
• California Elections Code Section 6220
  The Secretary of State shall, not later than the 32nd day after the election, compile and file in his or her office a statement of...
• California Elections Code Section 6222
  No fee shall be required of any person as a condition of receiving a certificate of selection as a delegate or an alternate.
• California Elections Code Section 6240
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a space shall be provided on the presidential primary ballot for a voter to write in the name of...
• California Elections Code Section 6241
  Any person who believes his or her name may be used as a write-in candidate for nomination by the Democratic Party for President of the...
• California Elections Code Section 6300
  (a) This chapter shall be applicable only to the presidential primary ballot of the Republican Party, and qualified parties for which no other provisions apply....
• California Elections Code Section 6320
  The chairperson of the state central committee shall notify the Secretary of State on or before the 120th day preceding the presidential primary as to...
• California Elections Code Section 6321
  The notification of the number of delegates shall be in substantially the following form: STATEMENT OF NUMBER OF DELEGATES TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY NATIONAL CONVENTION...
• California Elections Code Section 6322
  If the chairperson of the state central committee fails to file a notice as to the number of delegates, the Secretary of State shall ascertain...
• California Elections Code Section 6323
  The Secretary of State shall, on or before the 110th day preceding the presidential primary, certify to the county elections official of each county the...
• California Elections Code Section 6340
  The Secretary of State shall place the name of a candidate upon the Republican presidential primary ballot when the Secretary of State has determined that...
• California Elections Code Section 6341
  When the Secretary of State decides to place the name of a candidate on the ballot pursuant to Section 6340, he or she shall notify...
• California Elections Code Section 6342
  If a selected candidate or a nonselected candidate files with the Secretary of State, no later than the 68th day before the presidential primary, an...
• California Elections Code Section 6343
  Any unselected candidate desiring to have his or her name placed on the presidential primary ballot shall have nomination papers circulated in his or her...
• California Elections Code Section 6360
  Nomination papers properly prepared, circulated, signed and verified shall be left, for examination, with the county elections official of the county in which they are...
• California Elections Code Section 6361
  Each signer of a nomination paper may sign only one paper. He or she shall declare his or her intention to support the candidate for...
• California Elections Code Section 6362
  Any nomination paper may be presented in sections. Each section shall contain the names of the candidate. Each section shall bear the name of the...
• California Elections Code Section 6363
  Each section shall be prepared with the lines for signatures numbered, and shall have attached the affidavit of the circulator who obtained signatures to it,...
• California Elections Code Section 6364
  A verified nomination paper is prima facie evidence that the signatures are genuine and that the persons signing it are voters, until it is otherwise...
• California Elections Code Section 6365
  The nomination paper for a candidate shall be in substantially the following form: SECTION OF NOMINATION PAPER SIGNED BY VOTER ON BEHALF OF CANDIDATE Section...
• California Elections Code Section 6382
  Circulators may obtain signatures to the nomination paper of a candidate at any time not more than 104 nor less than 74 days prior to...
• California Elections Code Section 6383
  A county elections official or deputy county elections official may not circulate a nomination paper. Circulators may not obtain signatures within 100 feet of any...
• California Elections Code Section 6400
  Each section of a nomination paper shall be returned by the circulator who circulated it to the candidate or his or her designee. All the...
• California Elections Code Section 6401
  Prior to filing, the sections of a nomination paper for a candidate shall be numbered in order.
• California Elections Code Section 6402
  Nomination papers, properly assembled, may be consolidated and fastened together by counties, but nomination papers signed by voters in different counties shall not be thus...
• California Elections Code Section 6403
  The county elections official shall examine all nomination papers left with him or her for examination and shall disregard and mark "not sufficient" the name...
• California Elections Code Section 6404
  Within five days after any nomination papers are left with him or her for examination, the county elections official shall: (a) Examine and affix to...
• California Elections Code Section 6405
  The county elections official's certificate to nomination papers of a candidate shall be in substantially the following form: COUNTY ELECTION OFFICIAL'S CERTIFICATE TO NOMINATION PAPERS...
• California Elections Code Section 6406
  No filing fee is required from any person to be voted for at a presidential primary.
• California Elections Code Section 6420
  The Secretary of State shall, not later than the 32nd day after the election, compile and file in his or her office a statement of...
• California Elections Code Section 6421
  The Secretary of State shall, not later than the 32nd day after the election, issue a certificate of election to the candidate who received the...
• California Elections Code Section 6422
  The Secretary of State shall, not later than the 32nd day after the election, issue a certification to each person selected as a delegate.
• California Elections Code Section 6440
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a space shall be provided on the presidential primary ballot for an elector to write in the name of...
• California Elections Code Section 6441
  Any person who believes his or her name may be used as a write-in candidate for President of the United States shall, not later than...
• California Elections Code Section 6442
  Any person who receives, by write-in vote, a plurality of the votes cast for President of the United States shall, within 10 days after the...
• California Elections Code Section 6443
  If the candidate fails to file a list of delegates, the state central committee of the party in whose primary the candidate received the plurality...
• California Elections Code Section 6460
  Every candidate whether selected pursuant to Section 6340, or unselected as referred to in Section 6343, who wishes to have a delegation of electors pledged...
• California Elections Code Section 6461
  (a) The delegation of each candidate shall be composed as follows: (1) Seventy-eight percent of the delegation, or the nearest whole number thereto which provides...
• California Elections Code Section 6480
  The format of the presidential portion of the Republican primary ballot shall be governed by Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 13100) of Division 13, with...
• California Elections Code Section 6500
  This chapter shall be applicable to the presidential primary ballot of the American Independent Party only.
• California Elections Code Section 6501
  The presidential primary ballot shall be divided into a presidential preference portion and a delegate selection portion.
• California Elections Code Section 6502
  No filing fee is required from any person to be voted for at any presidential primary.
• California Elections Code Section 6520
  The Secretary of State shall place the name of a candidate upon the American Independent Party presidential preference ballot when the Secretary of State has...
• California Elections Code Section 6521
  When the Secretary of State decides to place the name of a candidate on the ballot pursuant to Section 6520, he or she shall notify...
• California Elections Code Section 6522
  If a selected candidate or an unselected candidate files with the Secretary of State, no later than the 68th day before the presidential primary, an...
• California Elections Code Section 6523
  Any unselected candidate desiring to have his or her name placed on the presidential preference primary ballot without filing a group of candidates for delegates,...
• California Elections Code Section 6524
  The name of any presidential candidate, to whom are pledged a group of candidates who have qualified by petition for the delegate selection portion of...
• California Elections Code Section 6540
  The Chairperson of the State Central Committee of the American Independent Party shall notify the Secretary of State on or before the 120th day preceding...
• California Elections Code Section 6541
  The notification of the number of delegates shall be in substantially the following form: STATEMENT OF NUMBER OF DELEGATES TO AMERICAN INDEPENDENT PARTY NATIONAL CONVENTION...
• California Elections Code Section 6542
  If the chairperson of the state central committee fails to file a notice as to the number of delegates, the Secretary of State shall ascertain...
• California Elections Code Section 6543
  The Secretary of State shall, on or before the 110th day preceding the presidential primary, certify to the county elections official of each county the...
• California Elections Code Section 6560
  Any three or more voters of the state who are registered as intending to affiliate with the American Independent Party may join as a committee...
• California Elections Code Section 6561
  The committee, on or before the 104th day before the presidential primary election, shall file with the Secretary of State a statement containing the name...
• California Elections Code Section 6562
  The number of candidates for delegates grouped on a nomination paper shall be equal to the total number of delegates to be elected by the
• California Elections Code Section 6563
  The candidates of each group shall be selected as follows: (a) No less than two-thirds shall be selected to represent congressional districts, and each of...
• California Elections Code Section 6564
  The number of alternates to be selected shall be no greater than one for each delegate, and the alternates shall be selected in the manner...
• California Elections Code Section 6565
  Each group of candidates for delegates that intends to pledge itself to the candidacy of a particular candidate for presidential nominee shall have the endorsement...
• California Elections Code Section 6566
  Any candidate whose nomination paper is filed in more than one group is disqualified from running as a member of any group.
• California Elections Code Section 6567
  Each candidate for delegate to the American Independent Party convention shall file with the Secretary of State, before the circulation of nomination papers of the...
• California Elections Code Section 6568
  Nomination papers for candidates for delegates shall be signed by voters registered as affiliated with the American Independent Party equal in number to not less...
• California Elections Code Section 6580
  This article applies to the nomination of a candidate for the presidential preference portion of the primary ballot, to the nomination of a slate of...
• California Elections Code Section 6581
  Nomination papers properly prepared, circulated, signed and verified shall be left, for examination, with the elections official of the county in which they are circulated...
• California Elections Code Section 6582
  Each signer of a nomination paper for the presidential primary ballot may sign only one paper. He or she shall declare his or her intention...
• California Elections Code Section 6583
  Any nomination paper may be presented in sections. Each section shall contain the name of the presidential preference candidate, or the names of the candidates...
• California Elections Code Section 6584
  Each section shall be prepared with the lines for signatures numbered, and shall have attached the affidavit of the circulator who obtained signatures to it,...
• California Elections Code Section 6585
  A verified nomination paper is prima facie evidence that the signatures are genuine and that the persons signing it are voters, until it is otherwise...
• California Elections Code Section 6586
  The nomination paper for a candidate for the presidential preference portion of the ballot shall be in substantially the following form: SECTION OF NOMINATION PAPER...
• California Elections Code Section 6587
  The nomination paper for a group of candidates for delegates, to the national convention shall be in substantially the following form: SECTION OF NOMINATION PAPER...
• California Elections Code Section 6591
  Circulators may obtain signatures to the nomination paper of the candidate or group of candidates at any time not more than 104 nor less than...
• California Elections Code Section 6592
  An elections official or deputy elections official may not serve as a circulator and circulators may not obtain signatures within 100 feet of any election...
• California Elections Code Section 6593
  Each section of a nomination paper, after being verified, shall be returned to the candidate, committee, or duly authorized representatives. All the sections circulated in...
• California Elections Code Section 6594
  Prior to filing, the sections of a nomination paper for any candidate or group of candidates shall be numbered in order.
• California Elections Code Section 6595
  Nomination papers, properly assembled, may be consolidated and fastened together by counties, but nomination papers signed by voters in different counties shall not be fastened
• California Elections Code Section 6596
  The elections official shall examine all nomination papers left with him or her for examination and shall disregard and mark "not sufficient" the name of...
• California Elections Code Section 6597
  Within five days after any nomination papers are left with him or her for examination, the elections official shall: (a) Examine and affix to them...
• California Elections Code Section 6598
  The certificate of the elections official to nomination papers of a candidate or group of candidates shall be in substantially the following form: Certificate of...
• California Elections Code Section 6599
  Upon receipt of a sufficient number of signatures for the nomination of a candidate for the presidential preference primary ballot, the Secretary of State shall...
• California Elections Code Section 6620
  For the presidential primary election, the format of the American Independent Party ballot shall be governed by Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 13100) of Division...
• California Elections Code Section 6621
  Any person who believes his or her name may be used as a write-in candidate for President of the United States shall, not later than...
• California Elections Code Section 6640
  The Secretary of State shall, not later than the 32nd day after the election, compile and file in his or her office a statement of...
• California Elections Code Section 6641
  The Secretary of State shall, not later than the 32nd day after the election, issue a certificate of election to each person who is a...
• California Elections Code Section 6642
  Any person who receives, by write-in vote, a plurality of the votes cast in the delegate selection primary shall, within 37 days after the primary...
• California Elections Code Section 6643
  If the candidate fails to file a list of delegates, the state central committee of the party shall, within 10 days of the end of...
• California Elections Code Section 6644
  If a group of candidates for delegates preferring a particular presidential candidate are elected at the presidential primary, the delegates to the national convention shall,...
• California Elections Code Section 6645
  If a group of candidates for delegates expressing no preference for a particular presidential candidate are elected, the chairperson of the group shall serve as...
• California Elections Code Section 6646
  If a vacancy exists in the office of the delegate or alternate, the chairperson of the delegation shall designate a person to fill that vacancy.
• California Elections Code Section 6647
  The alternate of any delegate who is unable to attend the convention shall attend the convention in his or her place and shall otherwise discharge...
• California Elections Code Section 6700
  This chapter shall be applicable to the presidential primary ballot of the Peace and Freedom Party only.
• California Elections Code Section 6701
  The Peace and Freedom Party presidential primary ballot shall be divided into a presidential preference portion and a national convention delegate selection portion.
• California Elections Code Section 6702
  No filing fee is required from any person to be voted for at any Peace and Freedom Party presidential primary.
• California Elections Code Section 6720
  The Secretary of State shall place the name of a candidate upon the Peace and Freedom Party presidential preference ballot when the Secretary of State...
• California Elections Code Section 6721
  On or before the 150th day preceding a presidential primary election, the Secretary of State shall send a letter by first-class mail to the Chairpersons...
• California Elections Code Section 6722
  On or before the 120th day preceding a presidential primary election, the Secretary of State shall publicly announce and distribute to the news media for...
• California Elections Code Section 6723
  When the Secretary of State decides to place the name of a candidate on the ballot pursuant to Sections 6720 and 6722, the Secretary of...
• California Elections Code Section 6724
  If a selected candidate or an unselected candidate files with the Secretary of State, no later than the 68th day before the presidential primary, an...
• California Elections Code Section 6725
  Any unselected candidate desiring to have her or his name placed on the presidential preference primary ballot without filing a group of candidates for delegates,...
• California Elections Code Section 6726
  Whenever a group of candidates for delegates pledged to a particular presidential candidate qualifies by petition for the national convention delegate selection portion of the...
• California Elections Code Section 6740
  The Chairperson of the Peace and Freedom Party State Central Committee shall notify the Secretary of State on or before the 120th day preceding the...
• California Elections Code Section 6741
  The notification of national affiliation and number of national convention delegates shall be in substantially the following form: Statement of National Affiliation and Number of...
• California Elections Code Section 6742
  If the Chairperson of the Peace and Freedom Party State Central Committee fails to file the notice required by Section 6741 by the 120th day...
• California Elections Code Section 6743
  On or before the 110th day before the presidential primary, the Secretary of State shall certify all of the following to the elections official of...
• California Elections Code Section 6744
  For the purposes of this chapter, the boundary between the northern and southern territories of the state shall be that latitudinal line coinciding with the...
• California Elections Code Section 6745
  The number of delegate candidates to be selected from each territory by each group shall be, to the nearest whole number, proportional to that portion...
• California Elections Code Section 6760
  Any five or more voters of the state who are registered as affiliated with the Peace and Freedom Party may join as a committee in...
• California Elections Code Section 6761
  The committee, on or before the 104th day before the presidential primary election, shall file with the Secretary of State a statement containing the name...
• California Elections Code Section 6762
  The number of candidates for delegate grouped on a nomination paper shall be equal to the total number of delegates to be elected by the...
• California Elections Code Section 6763
  The names of the grouped candidates shall be so selected that the portion of the candidates for national convention delegates residing in the northern and...
• California Elections Code Section 6764
  The number of alternates to be selected shall be no greater than one for each delegate, and the alternates shall be selected in the manner...
• California Elections Code Section 6765
  Each group of candidates for delegate that intends to pledge itself to the candidacy of a particular candidate for presidential nominee shall have the endorsement...
• California Elections Code Section 6766
  Any candidate for delegate whose nomination paper is filed in more than one group is disqualified from running as a member of any group.
• California Elections Code Section 6767
  Each candidate for Peace and Freedom Party delegate to the national convention shall file with the Secretary of State, before the circulation of nomination papers...
• California Elections Code Section 6768
  The declaration of a candidate for delegate shall be in substantially the following form: (Signed) _____ Declaration of Candidate for Delegate State of California )...
• California Elections Code Section 6769
  Nomination papers for candidates for delegates shall be signed by voters registered as affiliated with the Peace and Freedom Party equal in number to not...
• California Elections Code Section 6780
  This article applies to the nomination of a candidate for the presidential preference portion of the primary ballot, to the nomination of a slate of...
• California Elections Code Section 6781
  Nomination papers properly prepared, circulated, signed and verified shall be left for examination with the elections official of the county in which they are circulated,...
• California Elections Code Section 6782
  Each signer of a nomination paper for the presidential primary ballot may sign only one paper. The signer shall add her or his printed name...
• California Elections Code Section 6783
  Any nomination paper may be presented in sections. Each section shall contain the name of the presidential preference candidate, or the names of the candidates...
• California Elections Code Section 6784
  Each section shall be prepared with the lines, for signatures numbered, and shall have attached the declaration of the circulator who obtained signatures to it,...
• California Elections Code Section 6785
  A verified nomination paper is prima facie evidence that the signatures are genuine and that the persons signing it are voters registered as affiliated with...
• California Elections Code Section 6786
  The nomination paper for a candidate for the presidential preference portion of the ballot shall be in substantially the following form: SECTION OF NOMINATION PAPER...
• California Elections Code Section 6787
  The nomination paper for a group of candidates for delegates to the national convention shall be in substantially the following form: SECTION OF NOMINATION PAPER...
• California Elections Code Section 6791
  Circulators may obtain signatures to the nomination paper of the candidate or group of candidates at any time not more than 104 nor less than...
• California Elections Code Section 6792
  Each section of a nomination paper, after being verified, shall be returned by the verification deputy who circulated it to the candidate, committee, or duly...
• California Elections Code Section 6793
  Prior to filing, the sections of a nomination paper for any candidate or group of candidates shall be numbered in order.
• California Elections Code Section 6794
  Nomination papers, properly assembled, may be consolidated and fastened together by counties, but nomination papers signed by voters in different counties shall not be fastened
• California Elections Code Section 6795
  The elections official shall examine all nomination papers left with her or him for examination and shall disregard and mark "not sufficient" the name of...
• California Elections Code Section 6796
  Within five days after any nomination papers are left with the elections official for examination, the elections official shall: (a) Examine and affix to them...
• California Elections Code Section 6797
  The certificate of the elections official to nomination papers of a candidate or group of candidates shall be in substantially the following form: CERTIFICATE OF...
• California Elections Code Section 6798
  (a) Upon receipt of a sufficient number of signatures for the nomination of a candidate for the presidential preference primary ballot, the Secretary of State...
• California Elections Code Section 6820
  Upon the filing of nomination papers, the presidential preference primary candidate or slate of delegate candidates shall be voted upon, but the names of candidates...
• California Elections Code Section 6821
  For the presidential primary election, the format of the Peace and Freedom Party ballot shall be governed by Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 13100) of...
• California Elections Code Section 6822
  Any person who believes his or her name may be used as a write-in candidate for President of the United States shall, not later than...
• California Elections Code Section 6840
  The number of delegates to be certified as elected from each group of delegate candidates shall be the whole number nearest the product obtained by...
• California Elections Code Section 6841
  The Secretary of State shall send, not more than three business days after the presidential primary, to the chairperson of each committee qualifying a group...
• California Elections Code Section 6842
  Each group of candidates for delegate shall meet or confer after the presidential primary and by majority vote shall determine the order in which members...
• California Elections Code Section 6843
  The Secretary of State shall, not later than the 32nd day after the election, file in her or his office a statement of the canvassed...
• California Elections Code Section 6844
  The Secretary of State shall, not later than the 32nd day after the election, issue a certificate of election to as many persons in each...
• California Elections Code Section 6845
  Any person who receives, by write-in vote, a sufficient number of votes in the national convention delegate selection portion of the Peace and Freedom Party...
• California Elections Code Section 6846
  If a write-in candidate fails to file the list of delegates pursuant to Section 6845, the state central committee of the party shall, within 10...
• California Elections Code Section 6847
  The elected delegates may, if they desire, meet or confer prior to attending the convention to select a chairperson of the delegation and to fill...
• California Elections Code Section 6848
  The alternate of any delegate who is unable to attend the convention shall attend the convention in the place of the delegate and shall otherwise...
• California Elections Code Section 6849
  The Secretary of State shall, as soon as practicable, certify to the chairperson of the state central committee and to the chairperson of each party...
• California Elections Code Section 6900
  The term "elector" or "presidential elector" as used in this chapter means an elector of President and Vice President of the United States, and not...
• California Elections Code Section 6901
  Whenever a political party, in accordance with Section 7100, 7300, 7578, or 7843, submits to the Secretary of State its certified list of nominees for...
• California Elections Code Section 6902
  At the general election in each leap year, or at any other time as may be prescribed by the laws of the United States, there...
• California Elections Code Section 6903
  On or before the day of meeting of the electors, the Governor shall deliver to the electors a list of the names of electors, and...
• California Elections Code Section 6904
  The electors chosen shall assemble at the State Capitol at 2 o'clock in the afternoon on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December...
• California Elections Code Section 6905
  In case of the death or absence of any elector chosen, or if the number of electors is deficient for any other reason, the electors...
• California Elections Code Section 6906
  The electors, when convened, if both candidates are alive, shall vote by ballot for that person for President and that person for Vice President of...
• California Elections Code Section 6907
  The electors shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in separate ballots the person voted for as Vice President.
• California Elections Code Section 6908
  The electors shall make separate lists of all persons voted for as President and of all persons voted for as Vice President, and of the...
• California Elections Code Section 6909
  Each presidential elector shall receive ten dollars ($10) for his or her services, and mileage at the rate of five cents ($0.05) per mile for...
• California Elections Code Section 6920
  The Legislature of the State of California hereby ratifies the Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote as set forth...
• California Elections Code Section 6921
  The provisions of the Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote are as follows: Article 1. Membership Any state of...
• California Elections Code Section 6950
  Within three days of receiving the names of delegate candidates from the chairpersons of the steering committees, the Secretary of State shall transmit to each...
• California Elections Code Section 6951
  At least 68 days before the presidential primary, the Secretary of State shall transmit to each elections official a certified list containing the names of...
• California Elections Code Section 6952
  The certified list required by Section 6951 shall be in substantially the following form: CERTIFIED LIST OF CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE PRIMARY AND CANDIDATES FOR...
• California Elections Code Section 6953
  At least 68 days before a presidential primary, the Secretary of State shall transmit to each elections official a certified list containing the names and...
• California Elections Code Section 6954
  At least 68 days before a presidential primary, the Secretary of State shall transmit to each county elections official a certified list containing the names...
• California Elections Code Section 7000
  All references to a voter's or candidate's party "registration" or "affiliation" in this division shall refer to the party preference or lack of party preference...
• California Elections Code Section 7050
  This part shall apply to the organization, operation, and functions of that political party known as the Democratic Party of California.
• California Elections Code Section 7100
  In each year of the general election at which electors of President and Vice President of the United States are to be chosen, the candidate...
• California Elections Code Section 7150
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the elements and practices of the state central committee shall be the same as set forth in the standing...
• California Elections Code Section 7151
  The state central committee shall conduct party campaigns for the party and on behalf of the candidates of the party. It shall appoint committees and...
• California Elections Code Section 7152
  The Democratic Party of California shall post a current copy of its standing rules and bylaws for public inspection on its Internet Web site.
• California Elections Code Section 7200
  (a) In each county containing less than five Assembly districts, a county committee shall be elected by supervisor districts, and the number to be elected...
• California Elections Code Section 7201
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in a county of the fifth class as defined in Section 28026 of the Government Code, the elected members...
• California Elections Code Section 7201.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the County of Sacramento, the elected members of the county central committee shall be elected by supervisor...
• California Elections Code Section 7201.2
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the County of Alameda, the elected members of the county central committee shall be elected by Assembly...
• California Elections Code Section 7202
  In each county containing more than four and less than 20 Assembly districts, a county central committee shall be elected from Assembly districts and shall...
• California Elections Code Section 7203
  In each county containing 20 or more Assembly districts a county central committee shall consist of seven members elected from each Assembly district contained either...
• California Elections Code Section 7204
  (a) In the City and County of San Francisco, the county central committee shall be elected from the two Assembly districts located in the city...
• California Elections Code Section 7205
  Notwithstanding this article, each county central committee by resolution may provide for the election of all or a portion of central committee members to represent...
• California Elections Code Section 7206
  In each county the nominee of this party for Senator or the incumbent Senator, the nominees of this party for the Assembly, and any person...
• California Elections Code Section 7207
  The incumbent or nominee of each of the following offices shall be an ex officio member of the committee in the county in which he...
• California Elections Code Section 7208
  A committee may authorize any member of that committee, whether elected or ex officio, to appoint an alternate if a member desires to appoint an...
• California Elections Code Section 7209
  A person shall not be eligible for appointment or election to a committee who is not registered as affiliated with this party at the time...
• California Elections Code Section 7210
  (a) Each member of a committee, whether elected to the committee or appointed to fill a vacancy, before he or she enters upon the duties...
• California Elections Code Section 7211
  In the event that the candidates elected to a committee from a district do not equal the number of party committeepersons to which the district...
• California Elections Code Section 7212
  In the event of the appointment or election to a committee of an ineligible person, or whenever any member of the committee dies, resigns or...
• California Elections Code Section 7213
  Any member of a committee, other than an ex officio member, who misses more than three consecutive regularly called meetings may be removed by a...
• California Elections Code Section 7214
  The removal of residence by an elected or appointed member of a committee from the Assembly district or supervisor district from which he or she...
• California Elections Code Section 7215
  A committee may remove any member, other than an ex officio member, who during his or her term of membership affiliates with, or registers as...
• California Elections Code Section 7216
  Whenever any person is appointed to fill a vacancy on a committee, the chairperson of the committee shall file notices of the appointment with the...
• California Elections Code Section 7225
  At every presidential primary election, a county central committee may be elected in each county.
• California Elections Code Section 7226
  The elections official, no later than January 31 preceding the presidential primary, shall compute the number of members of the committee allotted to each Assembly...
• California Elections Code Section 7227
  In each county the name of each candidate for member of a committee shall appear upon the ballot only upon the filing of a nomination...
• California Elections Code Section 7228
  If the elections official, on the 73rd day prior to the presidential primary election, finds that the number of candidates nominated for election to a...
• California Elections Code Section 7229
  Whenever a candidate for election to a committee dies on or before the day of election, and a sufficient number of ballots are marked as...
• California Elections Code Section 7230
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a county central committee, in accordance with the rules and regulations adopted by the committee, may select its members...
• California Elections Code Section 7235
  All meetings of the committee shall be held in quarters that shall be accessible to persons with disabilities.
• California Elections Code Section 7236
  The Department of General Services shall permit any committee to hold meetings in a state building within the county. At least one committee meeting each...
• California Elections Code Section 7240
  A committee shall have charge of the party campaign under general direction of the state central committee or of the executive committee selected by the...
• California Elections Code Section 7241
  A committee may make rules and regulations providing: (a) How officers of the committee may be removed. (b) How meetings may be called, and any...
• California Elections Code Section 7242
  The committees shall perform any other duties and services for this political party as seem to be for the benefit of the party. They shall...
• California Elections Code Section 7243
  If the chairperson of a committee refuses to call a meeting, a meeting may be called upon five days' notice by a majority of the...
• California Elections Code Section 7244
  Within five days after a committee meets for its organizational meeting, the newly elected chairperson of the committee shall notify the county elections official of...
• California Elections Code Section 7250
  This part shall apply to the organization, operation, and function of that political party known as the California Republican Party.
• California Elections Code Section 7300
  In each year of the general election at which electors of President and Vice President of the United States are to be chosen, the Republican...
• California Elections Code Section 7350
  The membership of delegates to the state central committee, procedures for notification of members of appointments, proxy provisions, and form of appointment of delegate members...
• California Elections Code Section 7352
  The officers, methods of electing officers, terms of officers, quorum requirements for meetings of the state central committee and procedures for the conduct of committee...
• California Elections Code Section 7353
  The state central committee shall conduct party campaigns for the party and on behalf of the candidates of the party. It shall appoint committees and...
• California Elections Code Section 7354
  (a) The state central committee may prohibit or limit the power of county central committees established pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 7400) to...
• California Elections Code Section 7400
  In each county containing less than five Assembly districts, a county central committee shall be elected by supervisor districts, and the number to be elected...
• California Elections Code Section 7400.1
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 7400 and 7401, in the County of Sacramento, the county central committee shall be elected by supervisor districts, and the number to...
• California Elections Code Section 7400.3
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 7400 and 7401, in the County of Santa Clara, the county central committee shall be elected by supervisor districts, and the number...
• California Elections Code Section 7400.5
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 7400 and 7401, in the County of San Bernardino, the county central committee shall be elected by supervisor districts, and the number...
• California Elections Code Section 7401
  In each county containing more than four and less than 20 Assembly districts, a county central committee shall be elected from Assembly districts and shall...
• California Elections Code Section 7402
  In each county containing 20 or more Assembly districts a county central committee shall consist of seven members elected from each Assembly district contained either...
• California Elections Code Section 7403
  (a) In the City and County of San Francisco, the county central committee shall be elected from the two Assembly districts located in the city...
• California Elections Code Section 7404
  (a) In each county, the nominee of the party for State Senator, the nominees of the party for the Assembly, and any person nominated to...
• California Elections Code Section 7405
  The nominee for each of the following offices shall be an ex officio member of the committee in the county in which he or she...
• California Elections Code Section 7406
  A committee may authorize each elected member and each ex officio member of that committee to appoint an alternate member. An ex officio member who...
• California Elections Code Section 7407
  A person shall not be eligible for appointment or election to a committee who is not registered as affiliated with this party at the time...
• California Elections Code Section 7408
  (a) Each member of a committee, whether elected to the committee or appointed to fill a vacancy, before he or she enters upon the duties...
• California Elections Code Section 7409
  In the event that the candidates elected to a committee from a district do not equal the number of party committeemembers to which that district...
• California Elections Code Section 7410
  In the event of the appointment or election to a committee of an ineligible person, or whenever any member of the committee dies, resigns or...
• California Elections Code Section 7411
  (a) Any member of a committee, other than an ex officio member, who misses four regularly called meetings within one 12-month period shall be removed...
• California Elections Code Section 7412
  The removal of residence by an elected or appointed member of a committee from the Assembly district or supervisor district from which he or she...
• California Elections Code Section 7413
  A committee may remove any member, other than an ex officio member, who during his or her term of membership affiliates with, or registers as...
• California Elections Code Section 7414
  Whenever any person is appointed to fill a vacancy on a committee, the chairperson of the committee shall file notices of the appointment with the...
• California Elections Code Section 7420
  (a) At every presidential primary election, a member may be elected to a county central committee to replace a member whose term is expiring. (b)...
• California Elections Code Section 7421
  The elections official, no later than January 31 preceding the presidential primary, shall compute the number of members of the committee allotted to each Assembly...
• California Elections Code Section 7422
  In each county the name of each candidate for member of a committee shall appear upon the ballot only upon the filing of a nomination...
• California Elections Code Section 7423
  If the elections official, on the 73rd day prior to the presidential primary election, finds that the number of candidates nominated for election to a...
• California Elections Code Section 7424
  Whenever a candidate for election to a committee dies on or before the day of election, and a sufficient number of ballots are marked as...
• California Elections Code Section 7425
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a county central committee, in accordance with the rules and regulations adopted by the committee, may determine the...
• California Elections Code Section 7430
  The Department of General Services shall permit any committee that desires to do so to hold meetings in a state building within the county, at...
• California Elections Code Section 7431
  All meetings of the committee shall be held in quarters that shall be accessible to persons with disabilities.
• California Elections Code Section 7440
  A committee shall have charge of the party campaign under general direction of the state central committee or of the executive committee selected by the...
• California Elections Code Section 7441
  (a) At the first meeting, a committee shall organize by selecting a chairperson, a secretary, and any other officers and committees as it deems necessary...
• California Elections Code Section 7442
  A committee may make rules and regulations providing for any of the following: (a) How officers of the committee may be removed. (b) How meetings...
• California Elections Code Section 7443
  The committees shall perform any other duties and services for this political party as seem to be for the benefit of the party. Members of...
• California Elections Code Section 7444
  If the chairperson of a committee refuses to call a meeting, a meeting may be called upon five days' notice by a majority of the...
• California Elections Code Section 7460
  This article applies only to committees established by Assembly districts or supervisorial districts within a county pursuant to the bylaws of the county central committee...
• California Elections Code Section 7461
  The committees shall be called county Assembly district committees or county supervisorial district committees.
• California Elections Code Section 7462
  Each committee shall consist of the persons elected to the county central committee of a single Assembly or supervisorial district.
• California Elections Code Section 7463
  The district committees of a county and the ex officio members of the county central committee constitute the county central committee of that county.
• California Elections Code Section 7464
  The district committees may elect any officers and undertake any action as the bylaws of the county central committee of which they are a part
• California Elections Code Section 7465
  In the event that the candidates elected to a district committee do not equal the number of party committeemembers by which the district is entitled...
• California Elections Code Section 7466
  In the event of the appointment or election to a district committee of an ineligible person, or whenever any member of the committee dies, resigns...
• California Elections Code Section 7467
  Any member of a district committee who misses more than three consecutive regularly called meetings of the county central committee may be removed by a...
• California Elections Code Section 7468
  The removal of residence by an elected or appointed member of a district committee from the Assembly district or supervisorial district from which he or...
• California Elections Code Section 7469
  A district committee shall remove any member of that committee who is required to be removed under Section 7413.
• California Elections Code Section 7470
  Whenever any person is appointed to fill a vacancy on a district committee, the district committee shall notify within 10 days the chairperson of the...
• California Elections Code Section 7500
  This part shall apply to the organization, operation, and functions of that political party known as the American Independent Party of California.
• California Elections Code Section 7550
  The state convention shall consist of one delegate for each of the following officers: (a) Governor. (b) Lieutenant Governor. (c) Treasurer. (d) Controller. (e) Attorney...
• California Elections Code Section 7551
  The state convention shall be composed of the following delegates: (a) Each officer named in Section 7550 who was nominated and elected as a candidate...
• California Elections Code Section 7555
  Membership in the state convention shall not be granted to any party nominee unless he or she is registered as being a member of this
• California Elections Code Section 7556
  A vacancy exists in the membership under any of the following circumstances: (a) When there is no "holdover delegate" nor "nominee delegate" of the party....
• California Elections Code Section 7557
  Delegates shall be appointed to fill vacancies in the membership as follows: (a) If the vacancy occurs in a senatorial or Assembly district situated wholly...
• California Elections Code Section 7559
  A county central committee may authorize its chairperson to appoint delegates to fill vacancies in the membership of party state conventions that the county central...
• California Elections Code Section 7561
  If a person is a delegate to the state convention and qualified independently of that fact to be a delegate to the same state convention,...
• California Elections Code Section 7570
  The state convention shall meet biennially, at a location designated by the state central committee, at 10 a.m. on a Saturday following the direct primary...
• California Elections Code Section 7575
  The convention shall be called to order by the chairperson of the state central committee at 10 a.m. of the day designated for the convention....
• California Elections Code Section 7576
  The chairperson shall appoint a committee consisting of one delegate from each senatorial district, which shall serve as the committee on credentials of the convention,...
• California Elections Code Section 7577
  The convention, upon election of permanent officers, shall adopt a state platform for this party. This platform shall be made public upon its adoption.
• California Elections Code Section 7578
  In each year of the general election at which electors of President and Vice President of the United States are to be chosen, the convention...
• California Elections Code Section 7579
  The vote on any issue at the convention, including the election of officers, may be by rollcall or any other method as may be prescribed...
• California Elections Code Section 7580
  The proceedings at the convention shall be governed by any manual of parliamentary procedure designated by the convention.
• California Elections Code Section 7600
  The state central committee shall consist of all of the following persons: (a) All delegates to the state convention. (b) The chairperson of each county...
• California Elections Code Section 7603
  Each delegate to the state convention shall appoint to membership on this committee one voter of the same sex as the delegate and two voters...
• California Elections Code Section 7604
  A delegate to the state convention who at the date of that state convention is the incumbent of any of the offices listed in Section...
• California Elections Code Section 7605
  Any person who is a member of this committee by virtue of having been nominated to fill a vacancy in a partisan office in a...
• California Elections Code Section 7608
  Each delegate to the state convention shall send a notice by mail to each person whom he or she has appointed as a member of...
• California Elections Code Section 7609
  A person is not eligible for appointment to this committee if he or she is not registered as affiliated with this party at the time...
• California Elections Code Section 7610
  This committee may remove any member who, during his or her term of membership, affiliates with or registers as a member of another party. This...
• California Elections Code Section 7611
  In the event of the appointment of an ineligible person, or whenever any member of this committee dies, resigns, or becomes incapacitated to act, or...
• California Elections Code Section 7612
  Should a member appointed to membership pursuant to Section 7603 or 7604 cease to be a member for any of the reasons specified in Section...
• California Elections Code Section 7613
  In the event the appointment of alternate or associate members is authorized by statute or the rules of the committee, this committee shall supply forms...
• California Elections Code Section 7614
  Each delegate to the state convention may appoint three voters as associate members of this committee. An associate member shall have those privileges and obligations...
• California Elections Code Section 7620
  The committee shall convene in the same community where the state convention is held, at 10 a.m. on the Sunday following the state convention.
• California Elections Code Section 7628
  Revocation or change of proxies shall be recognized by this committee on proxies and credentials only upon a personal request made by the member before...
• California Elections Code Section 7635
  The chairperson of this committee shall call the committee to order at 10 a.m. on the day of first meeting. The next business in order...
• California Elections Code Section 7636
  The temporary chairperson, upon election, shall immediately appoint a committee on proxies and credentials, consisting of one member from each senatorial district, selected from among...
• California Elections Code Section 7637
  This committee shall choose its officers by rollcall vote, poll of senatorial district delegations, or any other method as may be prescribed by the committee....
• California Elections Code Section 7638
  This committee may select from its membership an executive committee, to which it may grant all or any portion of its powers and duties. If...
• California Elections Code Section 7639
  The state central committee or its executive committee shall designate by resolution or bylaw the national committee or party organization with which the American Independent...
• California Elections Code Section 7640
  The chairperson of this committee shall serve a two-year term, but shall not succeed himself or herself.
• California Elections Code Section 7641
  The elective officers provided for in the bylaws of this committee shall serve for two-year terms.
• California Elections Code Section 7642
  This committee may prescribe dues to be paid by those persons specified in Section 7600 in the manner and by the time prescribed by vote...
• California Elections Code Section 7643
  This committee shall conduct party campaigns for this party and in behalf of the candidates of this party. It shall appoint committees and appoint and...
• California Elections Code Section 7644
  A quorum of this committee is a majority of the entire membership, represented either in person or by proxy.
• California Elections Code Section 7645
  The proceedings at all meetings of this committee shall be governed by any manual of parliamentary procedures designated by the committee.
• California Elections Code Section 7650
  In each county containing less than five Assembly districts or portions thereof, except the City and County of San Francisco, a county central committee of...
• California Elections Code Section 7651
  In each county containing more than four Assembly districts or portions thereof, and the City and County of San Francisco, a county central committee shall...
• California Elections Code Section 7652
  The incumbent or nominee of each of the following offices shall be an ex officio member of the committee in the county in which he...
• California Elections Code Section 7653
  A committee may authorize any member of that committee, whether elected or ex officio, to appoint an alternate if a member desires to appoint an...
• California Elections Code Section 7654
  A person shall not be eligible for appointment or election to a committee who is not registered as affiliated with this party at the time...
• California Elections Code Section 7655
  (a) Each member of a committee, whether elected to the committee or appointed to fill a vacancy, before he or she enters upon the duties...
• California Elections Code Section 7656
  In the event that the candidates elected to a committee from a district do not equal the number of party committeepersons to which that district...
• California Elections Code Section 7657
  In the event of the appointment or election to a committee of an ineligible person, or whenever any member of the committee dies, resigns or...
• California Elections Code Section 7658
  Any member, other than an ex officio member, of a committee who misses more than three consecutive regularly called meetings may be removed by a...
• California Elections Code Section 7659
  The removal of residence by an elected or appointed member of a committee from the Assembly district or supervisor district from which he or she...
• California Elections Code Section 7660
  A committee may remove any member who during his or her term of membership affiliates with, or registers as a member of another party. A...
• California Elections Code Section 7661
  Whenever any person is appointed to fill a vacancy on a committee, the chairperson of the committee shall file notices of the appointment with the...
• California Elections Code Section 7670
  At every presidential primary election, a county central committee may be elected in each county.
• California Elections Code Section 7671
  The Secretary of State, no later than 125 days before the presidential primary, shall compute the number of members of central committees to be elected...
• California Elections Code Section 7672
  In each county the name of each candidate for member of a committee shall appear upon the ballot only upon the filing of a nomination...
• California Elections Code Section 7673
  If the elections official, on the 73rd day prior to the presidential primary election, finds that the number of candidates nominated for election to a...
• California Elections Code Section 7674
  Whenever a candidate for election to a committee dies on or before the day of election, and a sufficient number of ballots are marked as...
• California Elections Code Section 7675
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a county central committee may select its members at any time by holding a caucus or convention in accordance...
• California Elections Code Section 7680
  Each committee shall meet at its county seat, upon call, which shall be given by the chairperson of the county central committee or the immediate...
• California Elections Code Section 7682
  The Department of General Services shall permit any committee that desires to do so to hold meetings in a state building within the county, at...
• California Elections Code Section 7683
  All meetings of the committee shall be held in quarters that shall be accessible to persons with disabilities.
• California Elections Code Section 7690
  A committee shall have charge of the party campaign under general direction of the state central committee or of the executive committee selected by the...
• California Elections Code Section 7691
  A committee may make rules and regulations providing for any of the following: (a) How officers of the committee may be removed. (b) How meetings...
• California Elections Code Section 7692
  The committee shall perform other duties and services for this political party as seem to be for the benefit of the party. They shall continue...
• California Elections Code Section 7693
  If the chairperson of a committee refuses to call a meeting, a meeting may be called upon five days' notice by a majority of the...
• California Elections Code Section 7694
  Within five days after a committee meets for its organizational meeting, the newly elected chairperson of the committee shall notify the elections official of his...
• California Elections Code Section 7695
  Each committee may establish annual dues not to exceed twenty-four dollars ($24) per year for elected, ex officio and alternate members. The committee may remove...
• California Elections Code Section 7700
  This part applies to the organization, operation, and functions of that political party known as the Peace and Freedom Party of California.
• California Elections Code Section 7750
  At each presidential primary election, members of central committees may be elected in each county.
• California Elections Code Section 7751
  For the purposes of this chapter, the registration figures used shall be those taken from the statement of voters and their political affiliations transmitted by...
• California Elections Code Section 7752
  The number of members of central committees to be elected in a county shall be the greater of either of the following: (a) The number...
• California Elections Code Section 7753
  In each county where the number of members of central committees to be elected is 12 or less, the members shall be elected in a...
• California Elections Code Section 7754
  The number to be elected from each supervisorial or Assembly district shall be the greater of either of the following: (a) The number one. (b)...
• California Elections Code Section 7755
  Each person receiving a Peace and Freedom Party nomination for any partisan public office at the preceding direct primary election or at any special election...
• California Elections Code Section 7770
  The state party chairperson, no later than the 135th day before the presidential primary election, shall notify the Secretary of State whether or not a...
• California Elections Code Section 7771
  The elections official, no later than the 115th day before the presidential primary election, shall compute the number of members of central committees to be...
• California Elections Code Section 7772
  In each county, the name of each candidate for member of central committees shall appear on the ballot only if she or he has done...
• California Elections Code Section 7772.1
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if the elections official, on the 73rd day prior to the presidential primary election, finds that the number of...
• California Elections Code Section 7773
  In counties where members of central committees are to be elected by supervisorial or Assembly district, a person seeking election as a member of central...
• California Elections Code Section 7774
  A person qualifying as a candidate for member of central committees by virtue of qualification to have her or his name appear on the primary...
• California Elections Code Section 7775
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, a person may obtain and circulate nomination papers both for nomination to a public office and for election...
• California Elections Code Section 7776
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the number of sponsors which shall be required of a person to be a candidate for member of...
• California Elections Code Section 7777
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, up to three candidates for member of central committees in a single central committee election district may have...
• California Elections Code Section 7778
  The elections official of each county shall include the office of member of central committees and the candidates therefor in a place and manner similar...
• California Elections Code Section 7779
  The order of appearance of the names of the candidates for member of central committees on the ballot shall be determined by a public drawing...
• California Elections Code Section 7780
  The office of member of central committees may be placed on the presidential primary ballot under the heading "Party Central Committees" in the place and...
• California Elections Code Section 7781
  A party nominee for partisan office qualifying to be declared elected as a member of central committees pursuant to Section 7755 shall not be additionally...
• California Elections Code Section 7783
  The votes cast for each candidate for member of central committees shall be included in the canvass and statement of results in a manner similar...
• California Elections Code Section 7784
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a county central committee, in accordance with the rules and regulations adopted by the committee and subject to the...
• California Elections Code Section 7800
  At the convention meeting of the state central committee, the state central committee shall consist initially of only those members of central committees elected at...
• California Elections Code Section 7802
  At its convention and subsequent meetings the state central committee, in its sole discretion, may appoint any additional members to the state central committee as...
• California Elections Code Section 7803
  The state central committee may require a balance of elected and appointed members so that 50 percent of the state central committee members from each...
• California Elections Code Section 7804
  No person shall be appointed to membership on the state central committee unless she or he is registered as a voter affiliated with the Peace...
• California Elections Code Section 7805
  This committee may remove any elected or appointed member who, during the term of membership, affiliates with or registers as a member of another political...
• California Elections Code Section 7820
  The state central committee shall hold meetings not less than once during each year.
• California Elections Code Section 7830
  The state central committee's convention meeting shall be called to order by the chairperson of the committee at 10 a.m. on the Saturday on which...
• California Elections Code Section 7831
  The temporary chairpersons shall appoint any committees as the state central committee may direct.
• California Elections Code Section 7832
  The convention meeting of the state central committee shall elect the officers of the state central committee and adopt the party' s platform, which shall...
• California Elections Code Section 7833
  The vote on any issue at the convention meeting of the state central committee may be by alphabetical rollcall by county if a majority of...
• California Elections Code Section 7834
  The proceedings at the convention meeting of the state central committee shall be governed by any manual of parliamentary procedure designated by this committee.
• California Elections Code Section 7835
  This committee may select from its membership an executive committee to which it may grant all or any portion of its powers and duties. If...
• California Elections Code Section 7836
  The chairperson of the state central committee shall serve a two-year term but shall not succeed herself or himself, and the chairperson shall alternate each...
• California Elections Code Section 7838
  All officers elected at the convention meeting of the state central committee shall serve for two-year terms, unless a shorter term is specified by the...
• California Elections Code Section 7839
  This committee shall conduct party campaigns for this party and in behalf of the candidates of this party. It shall appoint committees and appoint and...
• California Elections Code Section 7840
  The state central committee shall have power to appoint interim county central committees in the following counties: (a) Counties in which the voters have not...
• California Elections Code Section 7841
  A quorum of this committee is 10 percent of the entire membership, represented in person. However, the committee may make rules and regulations establishing a...
• California Elections Code Section 7842
  The state central committee shall designate by resolution the national political party with which the Peace and Freedom Party is affiliated, and shall file a...
• California Elections Code Section 7843
  In each year of the general election at which electors of President and Vice President of the United States are to be chosen, the convention...
• California Elections Code Section 7850
  At its first meeting on the second Tuesday in July following the presidential primary election and at subsequent meetings, a county central committee, in its...
• California Elections Code Section 7851
  A county central committee may require a balance of elected and appointed committee members to create a total membership division of 50 percent women and...
• California Elections Code Section 7852
  No person shall be appointed to membership on a county central committee unless she or he is registered as a voter affiliated with the Peace...
• California Elections Code Section 7853
  Any member of a committee who misses more than three consecutive regularly scheduled meetings may be removed by a vote of the committee concerned, unless...
• California Elections Code Section 7854
  The removal of residence by an elected or appointed member of a county central committee from the county from which the member was elected shall...
• California Elections Code Section 7855
  A committee may remove any elected or appointed member, who during the term of membership, affiliates with or registers as a member of another political...
• California Elections Code Section 7856
  Whenever any person is appointed to a committee, the chairperson of the committee shall file notices of the appointment with the county elections official and...
• California Elections Code Section 7857
  If no members of central committees have been elected in a county at the preceding presidential primary election or selected in a county pursuant to...
• California Elections Code Section 7870
  The Department of General Services shall permit any committee that desires to do so to hold meetings in a state building within the county, at...
• California Elections Code Section 7871
  All meetings of the committee shall be held in quarters which shall be accessible to persons with disabilities.
• California Elections Code Section 7880
  A committee shall have charge of the party campaign under general direction of the state central committee or of the executive committee selected by the...
• California Elections Code Section 7881
  A committee may make rules and regulations providing for the following: (a) How officers of the committee may be removed. (b) How meetings may be...
• California Elections Code Section 7882
  The committees shall perform other duties and services for this political party as seem to be for the benefit of the party. They shall continue...
• California Elections Code Section 7883
  If the chairperson of a committee refuses to call a meeting, a meeting may be called upon five days' notice by a majority of the...
• California Elections Code Section 7884
  Within five days after a committee meets for its organizational meeting, the newly elected chairperson of the committee shall notify the county elections official of...
• California Elections Code Section 8000
  This chapter does not apply to: (a) Recall elections. (b) Presidential primary. (c) Nomination of officers of cities or counties whose charters provide a system...
• California Elections Code Section 8001
  (a) No declaration of candidacy for a partisan office or for membership on a county central committee shall be filed by a candidate unless (1)...
• California Elections Code Section 8002
  If a candidate is a candidate for a nonpartisan office, all reference to party affiliation shall be omitted on all forms required to be filed.
• California Elections Code Section 8002.5
  (a) A candidate for a voter-nominated office shall indicate one of the following upon his or her declaration of candidacy, which shall be consistent with...
• California Elections Code Section 8003
  This chapter does not prohibit the independent nomination of candidates under Part 2 (commencing with Section 8300), subject to the following limitations: (a) A candidate...
• California Elections Code Section 8004
  (a) In the event that no candidate files for a party's nomination for any partisan office that would appear on the ballot in a county...
• California Elections Code Section 8005
  In addition to satisfying the requirements of Sections 9083.5, 9084.5, and 14105.1, the Secretary of State shall conduct public voter education campaigns, using existing resources,...
• California Elections Code Section 8020
  (a) No candidate's name shall be printed on the ballot to be used at the direct primary unless the following nomination documents are delivered for...
• California Elections Code Section 8021
  All nomination documents which are delivered for filing to the elections official in compliance with Section 8020 and that are not required by this chapter...
• California Elections Code Section 8022
  Notwithstanding Section 8020 or any other provision of the law, if nomination documents for an incumbent state Senator, Member of the Assembly, state constitutional officer,...
• California Elections Code Section 8023
  (a) Except in the case of a judicial office filled in accordance with subdivision (d) of Section 16 of Article VI of the Constitution, every...
• California Elections Code Section 8024
  Notwithstanding Section 8020 or any other provision of the law, if nomination documents for an incumbent officer of a county are not delivered by 5...
• California Elections Code Section 8025
  If a candidate who has declared a candidacy for a nomination at the direct primary election for a voter-nominated office dies after the last day...
• California Elections Code Section 8026
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except for an election for a judicial office, an election shall not be conducted and no votes cast...
• California Elections Code Section 8027
  (a) Filing of nomination papers for a nonpartisan office, except for a judicial office, shall be reopened when an incumbent who is a candidate for...
• California Elections Code Section 8028
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a candidate shall not remove a declaration of candidacy form from the office of the elections official, and...
• California Elections Code Section 8040
  (a) The declaration of candidacy by a candidate shall be substantially as follows: DECLARATION OF CANDIDACY I hereby declare myself a candidate for nomination to...
• California Elections Code Section 8041
  (a) The nomination paper shall be in substantially the following form: NOMINATION PAPER I, the undersigned signer for ______ for nomination to the office of...
• California Elections Code Section 8060
  A candidate who declares his or her candidacy shall have registered voters sign his or her nomination papers pursuant to this article.
• California Elections Code Section 8061
  If a candidate submits an in-lieu-filing-fee petition pursuant to Section 8106, any or all signatures appearing on the petition, which would be valid under Section...
• California Elections Code Section 8062
  (a) The number of registered voters required to sign a nomination paper for the respective offices are as follows: (1) State office or United States...
• California Elections Code Section 8063
  The nomination paper shall be delivered to the elections official of the county in which the signer resides and is a voter.
• California Elections Code Section 8064
  The declaration of candidacy shall be obtained from, and delivered to, the elections official of the county in which the candidate resides and is a...
• California Elections Code Section 8065
  The elections official shall not accept for filing any nomination paper unless all blanks in the certificate are filled.
• California Elections Code Section 8066
  Circulators shall be voters in the district or political subdivision in which the candidate is to be voted on and shall serve only in that...
• California Elections Code Section 8067
  No more signers shall be secured for any candidate than the maximum number required in this article. If, however, through miscalculation or otherwise, more signers...
• California Elections Code Section 8068
  Signers shall be voters in the district or political subdivision in which the candidate is to be voted on. With respect to a candidacy for...
• California Elections Code Section 8069
  No signer shall, at the time of signing a certificate, have his or her name signed to any other nomination paper for any other candidate...
• California Elections Code Section 8070
  The elections official shall transmit to the Secretary of State the nomination document for each candidate for state office, United States Senator, Representative in Congress,...
• California Elections Code Section 8080
  No fee or charge shall be made or collected by any officer for verifying any nomination document or circulator's affidavit.
• California Elections Code Section 8081
  Before any nomination document is filed in the office of the county elections official or forwarded for filing in the office of the Secretary of...
• California Elections Code Section 8082
  All nomination documents that are required to be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, within five days after being left with the...
• California Elections Code Section 8083
  The county elections official's statement to the Secretary of State of the number of signers shall be in substantially the following form: STATEMENT OF COUNTY...
• California Elections Code Section 8084
  If the number of signatures affixed to an in-lieu filing fee petition filed pursuant to Section 8106 is 100 or more, the county elections official...
• California Elections Code Section 8100
  All nomination documents shall be filed as follows: (a) For state offices, United States Senators, Representatives in Congress, Members of the State Senate and Assembly,...
• California Elections Code Section 8101
  All forms required for nomination and election to all congressional, state, county, and political party county central committee offices shall be furnished only by the...
• California Elections Code Section 8102
  No defect in any nomination document presented shall prevent the filing of another nomination document within the period allowed for presenting the nomination document.
• California Elections Code Section 8103
  (a) The following fees for filing declarations of candidacy shall be paid to the Secretary of State by each candidate: (1) Two percent of the...
• California Elections Code Section 8104
  The filing fee to be paid to the county elections official for filing a declaration of candidacy for an office to be voted for wholly...
• California Elections Code Section 8105
  (a) The filing fees for all candidates shall be paid at the time the candidates obtain their nomination forms from the county elections official. The...
• California Elections Code Section 8106
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, a candidate may submit a petition containing signatures of registered voters in lieu of a filing fee...
• California Elections Code Section 8107
  The county elections official shall pay to the county treasurer all fees received from candidates pursuant to Section 8105. Within 10 days after the direct...
• California Elections Code Section 8120
  At least 68 days before the direct primary, the Secretary of State shall transmit to each county elections official a certified list of candidates who...
• California Elections Code Section 8121
  (a) Not less than five days before he or she transmits the certified list of candidates to the county elections officials, as provided in Section...
• California Elections Code Section 8122
  The Secretary of State shall certify and transmit the list of candidates for nomination to each office according to Assembly districts, in the order of...
• California Elections Code Section 8123
  The Secretary of State, at the time he or she transmits the list of candidates to the county elections official, shall inform the county elections...
• California Elections Code Section 8124
  The certified list of candidates sent to each county elections official by the Secretary of State shall show all of the following: (a) The name...
• California Elections Code Section 8125
  The certified list of candidates sent to each county elections official by the Secretary of State shall be in a form prescribed by the Secretary...
• California Elections Code Section 8140
  Any candidate for a nonpartisan office who at a primary election receives votes on a majority of all the ballots cast for candidates for that...
• California Elections Code Section 8141
  If no candidate has been elected to a nonpartisan office pursuant to Section 8140 or if the number of candidates elected at the primary election...
• California Elections Code Section 8141.5
  Except as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 8142, only the candidates for a voter-nominated office who receive the highest or second highest number of...
• California Elections Code Section 8142
  (a) In the case of a tie vote, nonpartisan candidates receiving the same number of votes shall be candidates at the ensuing general election if...
• California Elections Code Section 8143
  If the number of candidates elected at a primary election to any nonpartisan office is less than the number of persons to be elected to...
• California Elections Code Section 8144
  The candidates for election to membership on the county central committee, equal in number to the number to be elected, receiving the highest number of...
• California Elections Code Section 8145
  It is the duty of the officers charged with the canvass of the returns of any primary election in any county or city to issue...
• California Elections Code Section 8146
  Certificates of nomination or election issued by county or municipal officers shall be issued immediately upon the completion of the canvass of the returns at...
• California Elections Code Section 8147
  The Secretary of State shall issue certificates of nomination to candidates nominated for Representatives in Congress, Members of the State Senate and Assembly, members of...
• California Elections Code Section 8148
  Not less than 68 days before the general election, the Secretary of State shall deliver to the appropriate county elections official a certificate showing: (a)...
• California Elections Code Section 8149
  The Secretary of State shall certify and transmit the list of candidates for each office according to Assembly districts, in the order of arrangement prescribed...
• California Elections Code Section 8150
  The certificate of the Secretary of State showing candidates nominated or selected at a primary election, and justices of the Supreme Court and courts of...
• California Elections Code Section 8200
  In any election at which two or more judges or justices of any court are to be voted for or elected for the same term,...
• California Elections Code Section 8201
  (a) A declaration of candidacy for election or a nomination by the Governor, made pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 16 of Article VI of...
• California Elections Code Section 8202
  The numerically designated offices shall be grouped and arranged on all ballots in numerical order. No person may be a candidate nor have his or...
• California Elections Code Section 8203
  (a) In any county in which only the incumbent has filed nomination papers for the office of superior court judge, his or her name shall...
• California Elections Code Section 8204
  (a) If an incumbent of a judicial office dies on or before the last day prescribed for the filing of nomination papers, or files a...
• California Elections Code Section 8220
  The voters of any county may adopt subdivision (d) of Section 16 of Article VI of the Constitution of this state as applicable to the...
• California Elections Code Section 8221
  Subdivision (d) of Section 16 of Article VI may be adopted: (a) In pursuance of an ordinance or resolution adopted by the board of supervisors...
• California Elections Code Section 8222
  The petition shall state the name and address of a person to whom notice of the insufficiency of the petition shall be sent in the...
• California Elections Code Section 8223
  The petition shall be signed by 10 percent of the voters of the county, computed upon the total number of votes cast therein for all...
• California Elections Code Section 8224
  Within 20 days after the filing of the petition, the county elections official shall examine it and ascertain from the record of the registration of...
• California Elections Code Section 8225
  Upon the completion of his or her examination, the elections official shall forthwith attach to the petition his or her certificate, duly dated, showing the...
• California Elections Code Section 8226
  If it appears by the certificate that the petition has not the required number of signatures, the elections official shall so notify the person designated...
• California Elections Code Section 8227
  Upon the adoption of the ordinance or resolution or the presentation of a petition, the board of supervisors shall submit the proposal to the voters...
• California Elections Code Section 8228
  If the proposal is approved by a majority of the votes cast thereon, the board of supervisors shall file a certificate, signed by the chairman...
• California Elections Code Section 8300
  A candidate for a partisan office, including that of presidential elector, may be nominated subsequent to, or by other means than, a primary election pursuant...
• California Elections Code Section 8301
  A candidate for whom a nomination paper has been filed as a partisan candidate at a primary election, and who is defeated for his or...
• California Elections Code Section 8302
  For the purposes of this chapter, Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 8000) of Part 1, and Part 4 (commencing with Section 8800), so far as...
• California Elections Code Section 8303
  Whenever a group of candidates for presidential electors, equal in number to the number of presidential electors to which this state is entitled, files a...
• California Elections Code Section 8304
  When a group of candidates for presidential electors designates the presidential and vice presidential candidates for whom all of the group pledge themselves to vote,...
• California Elections Code Section 8400
  Nomination papers for a statewide office for which the candidate is to be nominated shall be signed by voters of the state equal to not...
• California Elections Code Section 8401
  (a) Upon receiving the nomination paper if, from the examination of such pursuant to Section 8400, more than 500 signatures have been signed on the...
• California Elections Code Section 8402
  When a nomination paper or sections of a nomination paper have been received which contain the number of valid signatures required in Section 8400, the...
• California Elections Code Section 8403
  (a) (1) Nomination papers shall be prepared, circulated, signed, and delivered to the county elections official for examination no earlier than 148 days before the...
• California Elections Code Section 8404
  Each signer of a nomination paper shall sign but one paper for the same office, except that in case two or more persons are to...
• California Elections Code Section 8405
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, if an independent candidate submits an in-lieu-filing-fee petition pursuant to Section 8106, the county elections official,...
• California Elections Code Section 8406
  Any nomination paper may be presented in sections, but each section shall contain the name of the candidate and the name of the office for...
• California Elections Code Section 8407
  The affidavit of any circulator obtaining signatures under this chapter shall be verified free of charge by any officer authorized to administer oaths.
• California Elections Code Section 8408
  A verified nomination paper is prima facie evidence that the signatures to it are genuine and that the persons signing it are voters unless it...
• California Elections Code Section 8409
  Each candidate or group of candidates shall submit a nomination paper that shall be substantially in the following form: County of _______. Nomination paper of...
• California Elections Code Section 8451
  Circulators shall be voters in the district or political subdivision in which the candidate is to be voted on and shall serve only in that...
• California Elections Code Section 8452
  A county elections official or a deputy county elections official may not circulate nomination papers, and circulators shall not obtain signatures within 100 feet of...
• California Elections Code Section 8454
  (a) Circulators obtaining signatures to the nomination paper of any candidate may, at any time not more than 148 nor less than 88 days prior...
• California Elections Code Section 8500
  Each section of a nomination paper, after being verified, shall be returned by the circulator who circulated it to the candidate. All the sections circulated...
• California Elections Code Section 8501
  For all nominations of candidates to be voted for in more than one county or throughout the state, the nomination papers, properly assembled, may be...
• California Elections Code Section 8502
  Nomination papers shall be left with the county elections official for examination and filed by him or her pursuant to the time limitations set forth...
• California Elections Code Section 8503
  The county elections official shall examine all nomination papers left with him or her for filing or for examination and shall disregard and mark "not...
• California Elections Code Section 8504
  Within 24 days after any nomination papers are left for examination, the county elections official shall examine them and prepare a certificate reciting that he...
• California Elections Code Section 8550
  At least 88 days prior to the election, each candidate shall leave with the officer with whom his or her nomination papers are required to...
• California Elections Code Section 8600
  Every person who desires to be a write-in candidate and have his or her name as written on the ballot of an election counted for...
• California Elections Code Section 8601
  The statement and nomination papers shall be available on the 57th day prior to the election for which the candidate is filing as a write-in...
• California Elections Code Section 8602
  The nomination papers for a write-in candidate shall be substantially in the same form as set forth in Section 8041.
• California Elections Code Section 8603
  Signers of nomination papers for write-in candidates shall be voters in the district or political subdivision in which the candidate is to be voted on....
• California Elections Code Section 8604
  No fee or charge shall be required of a write-in candidate except in the case of a candidate for city office, as provided in Section
• California Elections Code Section 8605
  No person whose name has been written in upon a ballot for an office at the direct primary may have his or her name placed...
• California Elections Code Section 8606
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person may not be a write-in candidate at the general election for a voter-nominated office.
• California Elections Code Section 8650
  Any group of individuals, equal in number to the number of presidential electors to which this state is entitled, who desire to be write-in candidates...
• California Elections Code Section 8651
  The declaration of write-in candidacy for presidential elector shall contain the following information: (a) Candidate's name. (b) Residence address. (c) A declaration stating that he...
• California Elections Code Section 8652
  The declaration of write-in candidacy shall be filed with the Secretary of State no later than the 14th day prior to the general election.
• California Elections Code Section 8653
  Only those names written on the ballot at the general election for the office of President and Vice President of the United States for which...
• California Elections Code Section 8700
  (a) FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE CANDIDATES; BALLOT ACCESS. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of State, or other elections official authorized by law, shall not...
• California Elections Code Section 8800
  No candidate whose declaration of candidacy has been filed for any primary election may withdraw as a candidate at that primary election.
• California Elections Code Section 8801
  No candidate nominated at any primary election may withdraw as a candidate at the ensuing general election except those candidates permitted to withdraw by this
• California Elections Code Section 8803
  (a) No vacancy on the ballot for a nonpartisan office at a general election shall be filled except if the candidate dies and that fact...
• California Elections Code Section 8804
  Notwithstanding Sections 8803 and 8810, any candidate who has been nominated at any primary election for superior court judge in which election there were at...
• California Elections Code Section 8805
  (a) Whenever a candidate for nomination for a nonpartisan office at a primary election dies on or before the day of the election, and a...
• California Elections Code Section 8807
  If the vacancy occurs among candidates chosen at the direct primary to go on the ballot for the succeeding general election for a nonpartisan office,...
• California Elections Code Section 8808
  A vacancy authorized to be filled because of the death of a candidate shall be filled, and the name of the person named to fill...
• California Elections Code Section 8809
  Whenever a candidate has declared a candidacy for a primary election, the candidate's name shall be printed upon the ballot for the primary election, unless...
• California Elections Code Section 8810
  Whenever a candidate has been nominated at any primary election after having filed a declaration of candidacy, the name of the candidate shall be printed...
• California Elections Code Section 8811
  Whenever, upon the death of any candidate, the vacancy created is filled by a party committee, a certificate to that effect shall be filed with...
• California Elections Code Section 9000
  This article applies only to initiative and referendum measures affecting the Constitution or laws of the state.
• California Elections Code Section 9001
  (a) Prior to the circulation of any initiative or referendum petition for signatures, the text of the proposed measure shall be submitted to the Attorney...
• California Elections Code Section 9002
  (a) The Attorney General shall provide a copy of the title and summary to the Secretary of State within 15 days after receipt of the...
• California Elections Code Section 9003
  In the event that the Attorney General is a proponent of a proposed measure, the circulating title and summary of the chief purpose and points...
• California Elections Code Section 9004
  (a) Upon receipt of the text of a proposed initiative measure, the Attorney General shall prepare a circulating title and summary of the chief purposes...
• California Elections Code Section 9005
  (a) The Attorney General, in preparing a circulating title and summary for a proposed initiative measure, shall, in boldface print, include in the circulating title...
• California Elections Code Section 9006
  (a) Upon receipt of the text of a proposed referendum, the Attorney General shall prepare a circulating title and summary of the chief purpose and...
• California Elections Code Section 9007
  Immediately upon the preparation of the circulating title and summary of a proposed initiative or referendum measure, the Attorney General shall forthwith transmit copies of...
• California Elections Code Section 9008
  Every proposed initiative measure, prior to circulation, shall have placed across the top of the petition in 12-point or larger roman boldface type, all of...
• California Elections Code Section 9009
  The heading of an initiative petition shall be in substantially the following form: Initiative Measure to Be Submitted Directly to the Voters The Attorney General...
• California Elections Code Section 9010
  Across the top of each page of a referendum petition, there shall be printed in 12-point boldface type the following: "Referendum Against an Act Passed...
• California Elections Code Section 9011
  Across the top of each page after the first page of every referendum petition or section of a referendum petition, which is prepared and circulated,...
• California Elections Code Section 9012
  Any petition for a proposed initiative measure or referendum may be presented in sections, but each section shall contain a full and correct copy of...
• California Elections Code Section 9013
  A space at least one inch wide shall be left blank across the top of each page of every initiative and referendum petition and after...
• California Elections Code Section 9014
  A petition for a proposed initiative measure or referendum shall not be circulated for signatures prior to the official summary date. A petition with signatures...
• California Elections Code Section 9015
  Officers required by law to receive or file in their offices any initiative or referendum petition shall not receive or file any initiative or referendum...
• California Elections Code Section 9016
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 324, for purposes of subdivision (c) of Section 8 of, and subdivision (c) of Section 9 of, Article II of the California...
• California Elections Code Section 9017
  If, for any reason, any initiative or referendum measure proposed by petition as provided by this article is not submitted to the voters at the...
• California Elections Code Section 9018
  The Secretary of State shall prepare and provide to any person, upon request, a pamphlet describing the procedures and requirements for preparing and circulating a...
• California Elections Code Section 9020
  The petition sections shall be designed so that each signer shall personally affix all of the following: (a) His or her signature. (b) His or...
• California Elections Code Section 9021
  A person who is a voter or who is qualified to register to vote in this state may circulate an initiative or referendum petition anywhere...
• California Elections Code Section 9022
  (a) Each section shall have attached thereto the declaration of the person soliciting the signatures setting forth the information required by Section 104 and stating...
• California Elections Code Section 9030
  (a) Each section of the petition shall be filed with the elections official of the county or city and county in which it was circulated,...
• California Elections Code Section 9031
  (a) If the statistical sampling shows that the number of valid signatures is within 95 to 110 percent of the number of signatures of qualified...
• California Elections Code Section 9032
  The right to file the petition shall be reserved to its proponents, and any section thereof presented for filing by any person or persons other...
• California Elections Code Section 9033
  When the Secretary of State has received from one or more elections officials or registrars a petition, certified as herein provided to have been signed...
• California Elections Code Section 9034
  Upon the certification of an initiative measure for the ballot, the Secretary of State shall transmit copies of the initiative measure, together with the circulating...
• California Elections Code Section 9035
  An initiative measure may be proposed by presenting to the Secretary of State a petition that sets forth the text of the proposed statute or...
• California Elections Code Section 9040
  Every constitutional amendment, bond measure, or other legislative measure submitted to the people by the Legislature shall appear on the ballot of the first statewide...
• California Elections Code Section 9041
  Whenever the Legislature submits any measure to the voters of the state, the author of the measure and no more than two persons appointed by...
• California Elections Code Section 9042
  If a measure submitted to the voters by the Legislature was not adopted unanimously, one Member of the Senate who voted against it shall be...
• California Elections Code Section 9043
  Arguments prepared by legislators and their appointees shall be submitted to the Secretary of State no later than a date to be designated by the...
• California Elections Code Section 9044
  If an argument for or an argument against a measure submitted to the voters by the Legislature has not been filed by a Member of...
• California Elections Code Section 9050
  After the Secretary of State determines that a measure will appear on the ballot at the next statewide election, the Secretary of State shall promptly...
• California Elections Code Section 9051
  (a) (1) The ballot title and summary may differ from the legislative, circulating, or other title and summary of the measure and shall not exceed...
• California Elections Code Section 9053
  Each measure shall be designated on the ballot by the ballot label certified to the Secretary of State by the Attorney General.
• California Elections Code Section 9054
  (a) Whenever a city, county, or city and county is required by Section 203 (42 U.S.C. Sec. 1973aa-1a) or Section 4(f)(4) (42 U.S.C. Sec. 1973b(f)(4))...
• California Elections Code Section 9060
  In case either the argument for or the argument against any measure placed on the ballot is not prepared and filed, the Secretary of State...
• California Elections Code Section 9061
  The press release shall be mailed at least 120 days prior to the date of the election at which a measure is to be voted
• California Elections Code Section 9062
  The press release shall consist of an announcement containing: (a) A summary of the essential nature or purpose of the measure for or against which...
• California Elections Code Section 9063
  The summary of a measure given in the press release shall be the official circulating title and summary that has been prepared by the Attorney...
• California Elections Code Section 9064
  Any voter or group of voters may, at any time within the time limit, prepare and file with the Secretary of State an argument for...
• California Elections Code Section 9065
  A ballot argument shall not be accepted under this article unless accompanied by all of the following: (a) The name, business or home address, and...
• California Elections Code Section 9067
  If more than one argument for or more than one argument against any measure is filed within the time prescribed, the Secretary of State shall...
• California Elections Code Section 9068
  (a) No more than three signatures shall appear with any argument printed in the ballot pamphlet. In case any argument is signed by more than...
• California Elections Code Section 9069
  When the Secretary of State has received the arguments that will be printed in the ballot pamphlet, the Secretary of State, within five days of...
• California Elections Code Section 9080
  The provisions of Sections 9084 to 9093, inclusive, are a restatement of, and shall be construed in conformity with, Sections 88001 to 88007, inclusive, of...
• California Elections Code Section 9081
  There shall be a state ballot pamphlet, that the Secretary of State shall prepare.
• California Elections Code Section 9082
  The Secretary of State shall cause to be printed as many ballot pamphlets as needed to comply with this code. The ballot pamphlets shall be...
• California Elections Code Section 9082.5
  The Secretary of State shall cause to be produced an audio recorded version of the state ballot pamphlet. This audio recorded version shall be made...
• California Elections Code Section 9082.7
  The Secretary of State shall disseminate the complete state ballot pamphlet over the Internet.
• California Elections Code Section 9083
  If the ballot contains a question as to the confirmation of a justice of the Supreme Court or a court of appeal, the Secretary of...
• California Elections Code Section 9083.5
  (a) If a candidate for nomination or election to a partisan office will appear on the ballot, the Secretary of State shall include in the...
• California Elections Code Section 9084
  The ballot pamphlet shall contain all of the following: (a) A complete copy of each state measure. (b) A copy of the specific constitutional or...
• California Elections Code Section 9085
  (a) The ballot pamphlet shall also contain a section, located near the front of the pamphlet, that provides a concise summary of the general meaning...
• California Elections Code Section 9086
  The ballot pamphlet shall contain as to each state measure to be voted upon, the following, in the order set forth in this section: (a)...
• California Elections Code Section 9087
  (a) The Legislative Analyst shall prepare an impartial analysis of the measure describing the measure and including a fiscal analysis of the measure showing the...
• California Elections Code Section 9088
  (a) At each statewide election at which state bond measures will be submitted to the voters for their approval or rejection, the ballot pamphlet for...
• California Elections Code Section 9089
  Measures shall be printed in the ballot pamphlet, so far as possible, in the same order, manner and form in which they are designated upon...
• California Elections Code Section 9090
  The ballot pamphlet shall be printed according to the following specifications: (a) The pamphlet shall be printed in clear readable type, no less than 10-point,...
• California Elections Code Section 9091
  The Legislative Counsel shall prepare and proofread the texts of all measures and the provisions which are repealed or revised.
• California Elections Code Section 9092
  Not less than 20 days before he or she submits the copy for the ballot pamphlet to the State Printer, the Secretary of State shall...
• California Elections Code Section 9093
  Notwithstanding Section 81012 of the Government Code, the Legislature may without restriction amend this article to add to the ballot pamphlet information regarding candidates or...
• California Elections Code Section 9094
  (a) The Secretary of State shall mail ballot pamphlets to voters, in those instances in which the county elections official uses data processing equipment to...
• California Elections Code Section 9094.5
  (a) The Secretary of State shall establish a process to enable a voter to opt out of receiving by mail the state ballot pamphlet prepared...
• California Elections Code Section 9095
  Any costs incurred by a county for mailing the ballot pamphlets pursuant to the provisions of subdivisions (b) and (c) of Section 9094 shall be...
• California Elections Code Section 9096
  (a) As soon as copies of the ballot pamphlet are available, the Secretary of State shall immediately mail the following number of copies to the...
• California Elections Code Section 9100
  In addition to any other method provided by law, ordinances may be enacted by any county pursuant to this article.
• California Elections Code Section 9101
  Any proposed ordinance may be submitted to the board of supervisors by filing an initiative petition with the county elections official, signed by not less...
• California Elections Code Section 9102
  Any proposal to enact, amend, or otherwise revise a county charter by initiative petition may be submitted to the board of supervisors and shall be...
• California Elections Code Section 9103
  (a) Before circulating any initiative petition in a county, or any petition relating to the annexation of territory by a county, the consolidation of counties,...
• California Elections Code Section 9103.5
  From the time materials pertaining to an initiative petition are filed pursuant to Section 9103 until the day after the county elections official determines that...
• California Elections Code Section 9104
  The notice of intention shall contain the printed name, signature, and business or residence address of at least one but not more than five proponents,...
• California Elections Code Section 9105
  (a) The county elections official shall immediately transmit a copy of any proposed measure to the county counsel. Within 15 days after the proposed measure...
• California Elections Code Section 9106
  Any elector of the county may seek a writ of mandate requiring the ballot title or summary prepared by the county counsel to be amended....
• California Elections Code Section 9107
  The county elections official shall ascertain the number of signatures required to sign the petition by obtaining the number of votes cast within the county...
• California Elections Code Section 9108
  The proponents may commence to circulate the petitions among the voters of the county for signatures by any registered voter of the county after publication...
• California Elections Code Section 9109
  Each petition section shall have attached to it an affidavit to be completed by the circulator. The affidavit shall be substantially in the same form...
• California Elections Code Section 9110
  Signatures shall be secured and the petition shall be presented to the county elections official for filing within 180 days from the date of receipt...
• California Elections Code Section 9111
  (a) During the circulation of the petition or before taking either action described in subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 9116, or Section 9118, the...
• California Elections Code Section 9112
  On or before April 1 of each odd-numbered year, the county elections official of each county shall file a report with the Secretary of State...
• California Elections Code Section 9113
  The petition shall be filed by the proponents, or by any person or persons authorized in writing by the proponents. All sections of the petition...
• California Elections Code Section 9114
  Except as provided in Section 9115, within 30 days from the date of filing of the petition, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, the elections official...
• California Elections Code Section 9115
  (a) Within 30 days from the date of filing of the petition, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, if, from the examination of petitions pursuant to...
• California Elections Code Section 9116
  If the initiative petition is signed by voters not less in number than 20 percent of the entire vote cast within the county for all...
• California Elections Code Section 9118
  If the initiative petition is signed by voters not less in number than 10 percent of the entire vote cast in the county for all...
• California Elections Code Section 9119
  Whenever any ordinance is required by this article to be submitted to the voters of a county at any election, the county elections official shall...
• California Elections Code Section 9120
  Article 3 (commencing with Section 9160) shall govern the procedures for submitting arguments for county initiatives.
• California Elections Code Section 9121
  Any number of proposed ordinances may be voted upon at the same election.
• California Elections Code Section 9122
  If a majority of the voters voting on a proposed ordinance vote in its favor, the ordinance shall become a valid and binding ordinance of...
• California Elections Code Section 9123
  If the provisions of two or more ordinances adopted at the same election conflict, the ordinance receiving the highest number of affirmative votes shall control.
• California Elections Code Section 9124
  The enacting clause of an ordinance submitted to the voters of a county shall be substantially in the following form: "The people of the County...
• California Elections Code Section 9125
  No ordinance proposed by initiative petition and adopted either by the board of supervisors without submission to the voters or adopted by the voters shall...
• California Elections Code Section 9126
  This article does not apply to any statewide initiative measure.
• California Elections Code Section 9140
  The board of supervisors may submit to the voters, without a petition, an ordinance for the repeal, amendment, or enactment of any ordinance. The ordinance...
• California Elections Code Section 9141
  (a) Except an ordinance granting a franchise, the following ordinances shall take effect immediately: (1) Those calling or otherwise relating to an election. (2) Those...
• California Elections Code Section 9142
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 9141, ordinances authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds by a county as part of a joint powers entity pursuant to Section 6547...
• California Elections Code Section 9143
  Notwithstanding Section 9141, that portion of any ordinance that changes supervisorial salaries shall become effective 60 days from the date of its final passage.
• California Elections Code Section 9144
  If a petition protesting the adoption of an ordinance is presented to the board of supervisors prior to the effective date of the ordinance, the...
• California Elections Code Section 9145
  If the board of supervisors does not entirely repeal the ordinance against which a petition is filed, the board shall submit the ordinance to the...
• California Elections Code Section 9146
  The provisions of this code relating to the form of petitions, the duties of the county elections official, and the manner of holding elections, when...
• California Elections Code Section 9147
  (a) The heading of a proposed referendum measure shall be in substantially the following form: Referendum Against an Ordinance Passed by the Board of Supervisors....
• California Elections Code Section 9160
  (a) Whenever any county measure qualifies for a place on the ballot, the county elections official shall transmit a copy of the measure to the...
• California Elections Code Section 9161
  If there is no other method provided by law, arguments for and against any county measure may be submitted to the qualified voters of the...
• California Elections Code Section 9162
  (a) The board of supervisors or any member or members of the board, or any individual voter who is eligible to vote on the measure,...
• California Elections Code Section 9163
  Based on the time reasonably necessary to prepare and print the arguments, analysis, and sample ballots and to permit the 10-calendar-day public examination as provided...
• California Elections Code Section 9164
  A ballot argument shall not be accepted under this article unless accompanied by the printed name and signature or printed names and signatures of the...
• California Elections Code Section 9166
  If more than one argument for or more than one argument against any county measure is submitted to the county elections official within the time...
• California Elections Code Section 9167
  (a) When an argument in favor and an argument against a measure have been selected for publication in the voter information pamphlet the official responsible...
• California Elections Code Section 9168
  (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, this article shall apply to any district bond election called by, and the returns of which...
• California Elections Code Section 9180
  Whenever the county elections official is required to mail official matter, as provided in Sections 9119, 9120, 9160, 9162, and 9167, only one copy of...
• California Elections Code Section 9190
  (a) The county elections official shall make a copy of the materials referred to in Sections 9119, 9120, 9160, 9162, and 9167 available for public...
• California Elections Code Section 9200
  Ordinances may be enacted by and for any incorporated city pursuant to this article.
• California Elections Code Section 9201
  Any proposed ordinance may be submitted to the legislative body of the city by a petition filed with the elections official of the legislative body,...
• California Elections Code Section 9202
  (a) Before circulating an initiative petition in any city, the proponents of the matter shall file with the elections official a notice of intention to...
• California Elections Code Section 9202.5
  From the time materials pertaining to an initiative petition are filed pursuant to Section 9202 until the day after the elections official determines that the...
• California Elections Code Section 9203
  (a) Any person who is interested in any proposed measure shall file a copy of the proposed measure with the elections official with a request...
• California Elections Code Section 9204
  Any elector of the city may seek a writ of mandate requiring the ballot title or summary prepared by the city attorney to be amended....
• California Elections Code Section 9205
  A notice of intention and the title and summary of the proposed measure shall be published or posted or both as follows: (a) If there...
• California Elections Code Section 9206
  Within 10 days after the date of publication or posting, or both, of the notice of intention and title and summary, the proponents shall file...
• California Elections Code Section 9207
  The proponents may commence to circulate the petitions among the voters of the city for signatures by any registered voter of the city after publication...
• California Elections Code Section 9208
  Signatures upon petitions and sections of petitions shall be secured, and the petition, together with all sections of the petition, shall be filed within 180...
• California Elections Code Section 9209
  Each section shall have attached thereto the declaration of the person soliciting the signatures. This declaration shall be substantially in the same form as set...
• California Elections Code Section 9210
  The petition shall be filed by the proponents or by any person or persons authorized in writing by the proponents. All sections of the petition...
• California Elections Code Section 9211
  After the petition has been filed, as herein provided, the elections official shall examine the petition in the same manner as are county petitions in...
• California Elections Code Section 9212
  (a) During the circulation of the petition, or before taking either action described in subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 9214, or Section 9215, the...
• California Elections Code Section 9213
  On or before April 1 of each odd-numbered year, the elections official of each legislative body shall file a report with the Secretary of State...
• California Elections Code Section 9214
  If the initiative petition is signed by not less than 15 percent of the voters of the city according to the last report of registration...
• California Elections Code Section 9215
  If the initiative petition is signed by not less than 10 percent of the voters of the city, according to the last report of registration...
• California Elections Code Section 9216
  In cities having a mayor, or like officer, with the veto power, when the passage of an ordinance petitioned for by the voters is vetoed,...
• California Elections Code Section 9217
  If a majority of the voters voting on a proposed ordinance vote in its favor, the ordinance shall become a valid and binding ordinance of...
• California Elections Code Section 9218
  Any number of proposed ordinances may be voted upon at the same election, but the same subject matter shall not be voted upon twice within...
• California Elections Code Section 9221
  If the provisions of two or more ordinances adopted at the same election conflict, the ordinance receiving the highest number of affirmative votes shall control.
• California Elections Code Section 9222
  The legislative body of the city may submit to the voters, without a petition therefor, a proposition for the repeal, amendment, or enactment of any...
• California Elections Code Section 9223
  Whenever any ordinance or measure is required by this article to be submitted to the voters of a city at any election, the elections official...
• California Elections Code Section 9224
  The enacting clause of an ordinance submitted to the voters of a city shall be substantially in the following form: "The people of the City...
• California Elections Code Section 9226
  This article does not apply to any statewide initiative measure.
• California Elections Code Section 9235
  No ordinance shall become effective until 30 days from and after the date of its final passage, except: (a) An ordinance calling or otherwise relating...
• California Elections Code Section 9236
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 9235, ordinances authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds by a city as part of a joint powers entity pursuant to Section 6547...
• California Elections Code Section 9237
  If a petition protesting the adoption of an ordinance, and circulated by a person who is a registered voter or who is qualified to be...
• California Elections Code Section 9237.5
  The provisions of this code relating to the form of petitions, the duties of the county elections official, and the manner of holding elections shall...
• California Elections Code Section 9238
  (a) Across the top of each page of the referendum petition there shall be printed the following: "Referendum Against an Ordinance Passed by the City...
• California Elections Code Section 9239
  Petitions shall be accepted for filing by the elections official and the determination of the number of signatures thereon shall be made by the elections...
• California Elections Code Section 9240
  After the petition has been filed as herein provided, the elections official shall examine the petition and certify the results in the same manner as...
• California Elections Code Section 9241
  If the legislative body does not entirely repeal the ordinance against which the petition is filed, the legislative body shall submit the ordinance to the...
• California Elections Code Section 9242
  Signatures upon petitions, and sections thereof, shall be secured, and the petition, together with all sections thereof, shall be filed, within 30 days from the...
• California Elections Code Section 9243
  Elections pursuant to this article shall be held in accordance with Sections 9217 to 9225, inclusive.
• California Elections Code Section 9244
  Whenever the legislative body of a city has voted in favor of the repeal of an ordinance protested against by the voters, as provided in...
• California Elections Code Section 9245
  If approval of an ordinance by the mayor or like officer is necessary, the date of approval shall be deemed the date of its final...
• California Elections Code Section 9246
  Any duty imposed in this chapter upon the legislative body of a city with regard to calling a municipal election, or in connection with an...
• California Elections Code Section 9247
  Article 1 (commencing with Section 9200) and this article do not apply to cities having a charter adopted under Section 3 of Article XI of...
• California Elections Code Section 9255
  (a) A charter or charter amendment proposed by a charter commission, whether elected or appointed by a governing body, for a city or city and...
• California Elections Code Section 9256
  The proponents of a measure proposing to amend a charter shall publish or post, or both, a notice of intent to circulate the petition in...
• California Elections Code Section 9257
  The petition signed by registered voters of the city or city and county proposing an amendment to a charter shall set forth in full the...
• California Elections Code Section 9258
  The petition may be circulated in sections, but each section shall contain a correct copy of the text of the proposed amendment.
• California Elections Code Section 9259
  Each signer of the petition shall sign it in the manner prescribed by Section 9020.
• California Elections Code Section 9260
  The petition shall be in substantially the following form: Petition for Submission to Voters of Proposed Amendment to the Charter of the City (or City...
• California Elections Code Section 9261
  Each section shall have attached thereto the affidavit of the person soliciting the signatures. This affidavit shall be substantially in the same form as set...
• California Elections Code Section 9262
  Each petition section shall consist of sheets of white paper, uniform in size, with dimensions no smaller than 8 1/2 by 11 inches or greater...
• California Elections Code Section 9263
  The sheets comprising each petition section shall be fastened together securely and remain so during circulation and filing.
• California Elections Code Section 9264
  A voter may withdraw his or her signature from a petition in the manner prescribed in Section 9602.
• California Elections Code Section 9265
  The petition shall be filed with the elections official by the proponents, or by any person or persons authorized in writing by the proponents. All...
• California Elections Code Section 9266
  After the petition has been filed, the elections official shall examine the petition in the same manner as are county petitions in accordance with Sections...
• California Elections Code Section 9267
  Petitions that do not substantially conform to the form requirements of this article shall not be accepted for filing by the elections official.
• California Elections Code Section 9268
  The conduct of election and publication requirements shall substantially conform with Part 1 (commencing with Section 10000) and Part 2 (commencing with Section 10100) of...
• California Elections Code Section 9269
  Upon the completion of the canvass of votes, the governing body of a city or city and county shall pass a resolution reciting the fact...
• California Elections Code Section 9280
  Whenever any city measure qualifies for a place on the ballot, the governing body may direct the city elections official to transmit a copy of...
• California Elections Code Section 9281
  If no other method is provided by general law, or, in the case of a chartered city, by the charter or by city ordinance, arguments...
• California Elections Code Section 9282
  (a) For measures placed on the ballot by petition, the persons filing an initiative petition pursuant to this article may file a written argument in...
• California Elections Code Section 9283
  A ballot argument may not be accepted under this article unless accompanied by the printed name and signature or printed names and signatures of the...
• California Elections Code Section 9285
  (a) (1) When an elections official receives an argument relating to a city measure that will be printed in the ballot pamphlet, the elections official...
• California Elections Code Section 9286
  (a) Based on the time reasonably necessary to prepare and print the arguments and sample ballots and to permit the 10-calendar-day public examination as provided...
• California Elections Code Section 9287
  If more than one argument for or more than one argument against any city measure is submitted to the city elections official within the time...
• California Elections Code Section 9290
  Whenever the elections official is required to mail official matter, as provided in Sections 9223, 9280, 9281, 9282, and 9285, only one copy of each...
• California Elections Code Section 9295
  (a) The elections official shall make a copy of the material referred to in Sections 9223, 9280, 9281, 9282, and 9285 available for public examination...
• California Elections Code Section 9300
  In addition to any other method provided by law, ordinances may be enacted by any district pursuant to this article, except that this article shall...
• California Elections Code Section 9301
  Any proposed ordinance may be submitted to the governing board of the district by an initiative petition filed with the district elections official. Signatures to...
• California Elections Code Section 9302
  Before circulating an initiative petition in any district, the proponents of that measure shall publish a notice of intention. The notice shall be accompanied by...
• California Elections Code Section 9303
  A notice of intention and statement as referred to in Section 9302 shall be published or posted, or both, as follows: (a) If there is...
• California Elections Code Section 9304
  Within 10 days after the date of publication or posting, or both, of the notice of intention and statement of the reasons for the proposed...
• California Elections Code Section 9304.5
  From the time materials pertaining to an initiative petition are filed pursuant to Section 9304 until the day after the district elections official determines that...
• California Elections Code Section 9305
  After filing a copy of the notice of intention, statement of the reasons for the proposed petition, written text of the initiative, and affidavit of...
• California Elections Code Section 9306
  Signatures upon petitions and sections thereof shall be secured, and the petition, together with all sections thereof, shall be filed within 180 days from the...
• California Elections Code Section 9307
  Each section of the petition shall have attached thereto the affidavit of the person soliciting the signatures. This affidavit shall be substantially in the same...
• California Elections Code Section 9308
  (a) Except as provided in Section 9309, within 30 days from the date of filing of the petition, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, the district...
• California Elections Code Section 9309
  (a) Within 30 days from the date of filing of the petition, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, if, from the examination of petitions pursuant to...
• California Elections Code Section 9310
  (a) If the initiative petition is signed by voters not less in number than 10 percent of the voters in the district, where the total...
• California Elections Code Section 9311
  If the initiative petition does not request a special election, the district board shall do either of the following: (a) Adopt the ordinance, without alteration,...
• California Elections Code Section 9312
  Whenever any ordinance is required by this article to be submitted to the voters of a district at any election, the district elections official shall...
• California Elections Code Section 9313
  Except as provided in Section 9314, whenever any petition is submitted to the voters, the district elections official shall transmit a copy of the measure...
• California Elections Code Section 9314
  (a) Whenever any petition is submitted to the voters of a water district, the district elections official shall transmit a copy of the measure to...
• California Elections Code Section 9315
  The persons filing an initiative petition pursuant to this article may file a written argument in favor of the ordinance. The district board may submit...
• California Elections Code Section 9316
  Based on the time reasonably necessary to prepare and print the arguments and sample ballots, and to permit the 10-calendar-day public examination as provided in...
• California Elections Code Section 9317
  (a) When an argument in favor and an argument against a measure have been selected for publication in the voter information pamphlet the elections official...
• California Elections Code Section 9319
  Any number of proposed ordinances may be voted upon at the same election.
• California Elections Code Section 9320
  If a majority of the voters voting on a proposed ordinance vote in its favor, the ordinance shall become a valid and binding ordinance of...
• California Elections Code Section 9321
  If the provisions of two or more ordinances adopted at the same election conflict, the ordinance receiving the highest number of affirmative votes shall control.
• California Elections Code Section 9322
  The enacting clause of an ordinance submitted to the voters of a district shall be substantially in the following form: "The people of the ____...
• California Elections Code Section 9323
  No ordinance proposed by initiative petition and adopted either by the district board without submission to the voters or adopted by the voters shall be...
• California Elections Code Section 9340
  The voters of any district that is a local public entity as defined by Section 900.4 of the Government Code, and to which Section 9300...
• California Elections Code Section 9341
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 9340, ordinances authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds by a school district, special district, or any other local agency as part of...
• California Elections Code Section 9342
  The governing board of any district to which Section 9340 applies may refer legislative questions to the voters of the district in the same manner...
• California Elections Code Section 9360
  Whenever the elections official is required to mail official matter, as provided in Sections 9312, 9315, and 9317, only one copy of each such official...
• California Elections Code Section 9380
  (a) The elections official shall make a copy of the materials referred to in Sections 9312, 9315, and 9317 available for public examination in his...
• California Elections Code Section 9400
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, this chapter applies to all bond issues proposed by a county, city and county, city, district, or other political...
• California Elections Code Section 9401
  (a) In connection with each bond issue specified in Section 9400, a statement shall be mailed to the voters with the sample ballot for the...
• California Elections Code Section 9402
  All official materials, including any ballot pamphlet prepared, sponsored, or distributed by the jurisdiction that has proposed the bond issue or that is financed in...
• California Elections Code Section 9403
  Failure to comply with this chapter shall not affect the validity of any bond issue following the sale and delivery of the bonds.
• California Elections Code Section 9404
  The Legislature declares that the essence of compliance with this chapter is good faith in presenting to voters the most accurate available information for their...
• California Elections Code Section 9405
  Whenever the elections official is required to mail a statement, as provided in Section 9401, only one copy of the statement shall be mailed to...
• California Elections Code Section 9500
  Whenever a school measure qualifies for a place on the ballot, the county elections official shall transmit a copy of the measure to the county...
• California Elections Code Section 9501
  (a) The governing board of the district or any member or members of the board, or any individual voter who is eligible to vote on...
• California Elections Code Section 9501.5
  A ballot argument shall not be accepted under this article unless accompanied by the printed name and signature or printed names and signatures of the...
• California Elections Code Section 9502
  Based on the time reasonably necessary to prepare and print the arguments, and to permit the 10-calendar-day public examination as provided in Section 9509, the...
• California Elections Code Section 9503
  If more than one argument for or more than one argument against any school measure is submitted to the person conducting the election within the...
• California Elections Code Section 9504
  (a) When an argument in favor and an argument against a measure have been selected for publication in the voter information pamphlet the elections official...
• California Elections Code Section 9508
  Whenever a proposition relating to the approval of district bonds and a proposition, which is conditioned by the State Allocation Board on the approval of...
• California Elections Code Section 9509
  (a) The elections official shall make a copy of the materials referred to in Sections 9500, 9501, and 9504 available for public examination in his...
• California Elections Code Section 9600
  All arguments concerning measures filed pursuant to this division shall be accompanied by the following form statement, to be signed by each proponent and by...
• California Elections Code Section 9601
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this code, whenever any ballot arguments for or against any measure submitted to the voters for approval are authorized, these...
• California Elections Code Section 9602
  A voter who has signed an initiative or referendum petition, and who subsequently wishes his or her name withdrawn, may do so by filing a...
• California Elections Code Section 9603
  (a) Each city, county, school district, community college district, county board of education, and special district may hold, at its discretion, an advisory election on...
• California Elections Code Section 9604
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person may engage in good faith bargaining between competing interests to secure legislative approval of matters embraced...
• California Elections Code Section 9605
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever a legislative body has ordered that a measure or proposal be submitted to the voters of any jurisdiction...
• California Elections Code Section 9606
  A county elections official who is required, pursuant to this division, to examine signatures on an initiative, referendum, recall, nomination, or other election petition, may...
• California Elections Code Section 9607
  The proponents of an initiative measure shall ensure that any person, company, or other organization that is paid, or who volunteers, to solicit signatures to...
• California Elections Code Section 9608
  (a) A proponent of an initiative measure shall execute and submit, along with the request for a title and summary for the proposed measure, a...
• California Elections Code Section 9609
  (a) Prior to allowing a person to circulate an initiative petition for signatures, the person, company official, or other organizational officer who is in charge...
• California Elections Code Section 9610
  (a) Prior to soliciting signatures on an initiative petition, a circulator shall execute and submit to the person, company official, or other organizational officer who...
• California Elections Code Section 10000
  Every person is entitled to vote at a local, special, or consolidated election who is registered in any one of the precincts which compose the...
• California Elections Code Section 10001
  Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, all statewide special elections shall be called, conducted, and canvassed as provided by this code for the calling,...
• California Elections Code Section 10002
  The governing body of any city or district may by resolution request the board of supervisors of the county to permit the county elections official...
• California Elections Code Section 10003
  A county may by ordinance or resolution limit campaign contributions in county elections.
• California Elections Code Section 10004
  If the governing body of any special district fails to call or to take any other steps necessary to the holding of the regular district...
• California Elections Code Section 10100
  Whenever the county elections official is required to examine the signatures upon any nomination paper or petition of any candidate for a municipal office, he...
• California Elections Code Section 10101
  This part shall apply to all municipal elections, except where otherwise provided for in the Constitution of the state, or in a charter duly adopted...
• California Elections Code Section 10102
  Section 13107, relating to ballot designations, shall apply to municipal elections, whether held in a general law or chartered city.
• California Elections Code Section 10103
  Part 3 (commencing with Section 8600) of Division 8 and Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 15350) of Division 15, relating to write-in votes, shall apply...
• California Elections Code Section 10104
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 15, if the last day for the performance of any act provided for or required by this code is a day when...
• California Elections Code Section 10200
  This chapter shall be liberally construed to promote its objects, and no error, omission or irregularity shall invalidate an election if there has been a...
• California Elections Code Section 10201
  A proposition may be submitted at a regular election, or a special election may be called, by ordinance or resolution, for the purpose of voting...
• California Elections Code Section 10202
  A city may, by ordinance or resolution, limit campaign contributions in municipal elections.
• California Elections Code Section 10204.1
  It is the official position of the People of the State of California that our elected officials should vote to enact, by amendment to the...
• California Elections Code Section 10204.2
  It is the will of the People of the State of California that application be made to Congress on behalf of the People of California...
• California Elections Code Section 10204.3
  The California Legislature, due to the desire of the People of the State of California to establish term limits on the Congress of the United...
• California Elections Code Section 10204.4
  Each state legislator is hereby instructed to use all of his or her delegated powers to pass the Article V application to Congress set forth...
• California Elections Code Section 10204.5
  (a) As provided in this act, at each election for the office of United States Representative, United States Senator, State Senator, or Member of the...
• California Elections Code Section 10204.6
  Each member of the California congressional delegation is hereby instructed to use all of his or her delegated powers to pass the Congressional Term Limits...
• California Elections Code Section 10204.7
  All primary, general, and special election ballots shall have the information "DISREGARDED VOTERS' INSTRUCTION ON TERM LIMITS" printed adjacent to the name of any U.S....
• California Elections Code Section 10204.8
  The information "DISREGARDED VOTERS' INSTRUCTION ON TERM LIMITS" may not appear adjacent to the names of a candidate for Congress if the Congressional Term Limits...
• California Elections Code Section 10204.9
  Notwithstanding any other provision of California law, (a) A nonincumbent candidate for the office of U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator, State Senator, or Member of...
• California Elections Code Section 10204.10
  At such time as the Congressional Term Limits Amendment set forth in Section 10204.2 has become part of the U.S. Constitution, this article automatically shall...
• California Elections Code Section 10204.11
  Severability. If any portion, clause, or phrase of this act is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent...
• California Elections Code Section 10220
  Candidates may be nominated for any of the elective offices of the city in the following manner: Not earlier than the 113th day nor later...
• California Elections Code Section 10220.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a candidate shall not file nomination papers for more than one municipal office or term of office for the...
• California Elections Code Section 10221
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the signatures to each nomination paper shall be appended on the same sheet of paper, and each signer...
• California Elections Code Section 10222
  Every nomination paper shall have annexed an affidavit of the person who circulated it, to the effect that he or she saw written all the...
• California Elections Code Section 10223
  Each nomination paper shall be accompanied by a verified statement of the candidate that he or she will accept the nomination, and will also accept...
• California Elections Code Section 10224
  All nomination papers shall be filed with the city elections official during regular business hours as posted, not later than the 88th day before the...
• California Elections Code Section 10225
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 10220 and 10224, if nomination papers for an incumbent officer of the city are not filed by or on the 88th day...
• California Elections Code Section 10226
  The nomination papers and affidavits shall be substantially in the following form: "NOMINATION PAPER We, the undersigned voters of the ____ of ____ hereby nominate...
• California Elections Code Section 10227
  All forms required for nomination and election to all municipal offices shall be furnished only by the city elections official during regular business hours. At...
• California Elections Code Section 10228
  A filing fee proportionate to the costs of processing a candidate's nomination papers or a candidate's supplemental nomination papers filed pursuant to subdivision (b) of...
• California Elections Code Section 10229
  (a) If, by the 88th day, during normal business hours as posted, prior to the day fixed for a regularly scheduled municipal election or the...
• California Elections Code Section 10230
  If the date of a general municipal election is changed by municipal ordinance pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 10403.5 or by charter, the period...
• California Elections Code Section 10240
  The city elections official shall have the necessary ballots printed and shall procure and furnish to the election officers the necessary supplies and equipment as...
• California Elections Code Section 10241
  Before opening the polls, the election officers shall sign a declaration to discharge faithfully the duties of an election officer, before the inspector or before...
• California Elections Code Section 10242
  The polls shall be open on the day of election between the hours that the governing body determines, but not less than eight consecutive hours....
• California Elections Code Section 10243
  A majority of the members of any precinct board shall be present at the polling place at all times while the polling place is open.
• California Elections Code Section 10260
  The votes shall be counted, the result of the votes cast shall be posted, the supplies and records of the election shall be returned to...
• California Elections Code Section 10261
  The city elections official, or a canvassing board appointed by him or her, shall count the votes cast by vote by mail voters. The city...
• California Elections Code Section 10262
  The canvass shall be conducted by the elections official. Sections 15302 and 15303 shall govern the conduct of the canvass. Upon the completion of the...
• California Elections Code Section 10263
  Upon the completion of the canvass and before installing the new officers, the governing body shall adopt a resolution reciting the fact of the election...
• California Elections Code Section 10264
  As soon as the result of the election is declared, the elections official of the governing body shall enter on its records a statement of...
• California Elections Code Section 10265
  The elections official shall immediately sign and deliver to each person elected a certificate of election. He or she shall also administer to each person...
• California Elections Code Section 10266
  Recount of votes in municipal elections shall be governed by Article 1 (commencing with Section 15600) of Chapter 12 of Division 15.
• California Elections Code Section 10300
  The voters of a city may present a petition to the Governor for the appointment of three commissioners of election pursuant to this chapter if:...
• California Elections Code Section 10301
  The petition to the Governor shall set forth: (a) The name of the city, with the date and manner of organization. (b) The date of...
• California Elections Code Section 10302
  The petition shall be signed by not less than 75 persons in the city, each of whom possesses all the qualifications mentioned in the body...
• California Elections Code Section 10303
  Upon the presentation of the petition to the Governor, he or she shall either act upon it or require additional evidence of the matters set...
• California Elections Code Section 10304
  The Governor shall issue a commission to the commissioners, and the issuance of the commission shall be conclusive evidence of the regularity of all the...
• California Elections Code Section 10305
  The commissioners may, by an order entered in their minutes, call an election for the officers required by the charter of the city, to be...
• California Elections Code Section 10306
  Prior to the election, the commission shall appoint precinct boards and fix the places of holding the election, as required in the city charter. The...
• California Elections Code Section 10307
  Except that the returns shall be returned and delivered to the commission, the precinct boards shall make return of the election as required in the...
• California Elections Code Section 10308
  Within five days after the election, the commissioners shall canvass the returns and declare which persons were elected. The commission shall issue certificates of election...
• California Elections Code Section 10309
  Within 10 days after issuance of the certificates of election, the officers shall qualify and enter upon the discharge of their duties, in accordance with...
• California Elections Code Section 10310
  At the first meeting of the governing body of the city after the election, the commissioners shall deliver to the governing body all books and...
• California Elections Code Section 10311
  Whenever the officers elected at the election, and the officers authorized by the charter to be elected or appointed by the governing body or executive...
• California Elections Code Section 10312
  Whenever the government of the city is in full operation, the governing body shall enter a resolution in its minutes declaring that fact. The resolution...
• California Elections Code Section 10400
  Whenever two or more elections, including bond elections, of any legislative or congressional district, public district, city, county or other political subdivision are called to...
• California Elections Code Section 10401
  Where one of the elections to be consolidated is a statewide election, the board of supervisors of the county in which the consolidation is to...
• California Elections Code Section 10402
  When local elections are to be consolidated, and no specific procedure is specified for their consolidation, the procedure set forth in Section 10403 shall govern...
• California Elections Code Section 10402.5
  Any state, county, municipal, district, and school district election held on a statewide election date pursuant to Section 1002 shall be consolidated with the statewide...
• California Elections Code Section 10403
  Whenever an election called by a district, city or other political subdivision for the submission of any question, proposition, or office to be filled is...
• California Elections Code Section 10403.5
  (a) (1) Any city ordinance requiring its general municipal election to be held on a day specified in subdivision (b) of Section 1301 shall be...
• California Elections Code Section 10404
  (a) This section applies only to special districts electing members of the governing body in November of odd-numbered years. As used in this section, "special...
• California Elections Code Section 10404.5
  (a) A resolution of the governing board of a school district or county board of education to establish an election day pursuant to subdivision (b)...
• California Elections Code Section 10404.7
  A school district in Tehama County or the Tehama County Board of Education, by itself or in concert with other school districts or county boards...
• California Elections Code Section 10405
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Registrar-Recorder of the County of Los Angeles and the Registrar of Voters of Orange County may, pursuant to...
• California Elections Code Section 10405.7
  (a) The resolution of the community college district governing board to establish an election day pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1302 shall be adopted...
• California Elections Code Section 10405.8
  In a community college district that includes the trustee areas authorized to be established pursuant to the third paragraph of Section 72023 of the Education...
• California Elections Code Section 10406
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if a statewide special election is called less than 88 days prior to the date of that election, a...
• California Elections Code Section 10407
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever other elections are consolidated with a regularly scheduled election, the period for the filing of nomination documents...
• California Elections Code Section 10408
  When the county precinct boundaries at a consolidated election called by the board of supervisors of the county in which the city, district or other...
• California Elections Code Section 10409
  When the boundaries of the territory within which an election is to be held, or the boundaries of the precincts established therefor, do not fully...
• California Elections Code Section 10410
  Within the territory affected by the order of consolidation, the election precincts, polling places and voting booths shall, in every case, be the same, and...
• California Elections Code Section 10411
  In case of the consolidation of any election called by the legislative body of a city, district, or other political subdivision with an election held...
• California Elections Code Section 10412
  In the case of the consolidation of any election called by the governing body of a city, district or other political subdivision with an election...
• California Elections Code Section 10413
  When the returns of any elections consolidated pursuant to this part are required to be canvassed by the same body, the elections shall be held...
• California Elections Code Section 10416
  Except as otherwise provided in this part, when elections are consolidated, the governing body ordering consolidation may, in the territory affected thereby, provide for: (a)...
• California Elections Code Section 10417
  Where under any law of the state the precincts, polling places or names of members of precinct boards are required to be described or otherwise...
• California Elections Code Section 10418
  Whenever an election is to be held on the same day as a statewide election, including a statewide special election, or an election held pursuant...
• California Elections Code Section 10500
  (a) This part may be cited as the Uniform District Election Law. (b) As used in this part, the following definitions apply: (1) "Affected county"...
• California Elections Code Section 10501
  It is the purpose of this part to provide a procedure for the election of elective officers of districts. These elections shall be called and...
• California Elections Code Section 10502
  (a) This part shall apply to all districts and agencies whose principal acts so provide. However, the provisions of this part requiring the county elections...
• California Elections Code Section 10503
  Where this part provides that the principal act shall govern, and the principal act contains no provisions on the matter, the general election laws of...
• California Elections Code Section 10504
  Whenever this part requires the secretary of a district to deliver a notice or other information to the county elections official on or before a...
• California Elections Code Section 10505
  The terms of office of elective officers in all new districts shall be determined as follows: (a) If the district is formed in an odd-numbered...
• California Elections Code Section 10506
  Whenever a district shall increase the number of divisions, if there are any, the terms of office of the offices of director thus created shall...
• California Elections Code Section 10507
  Except as otherwise provided in this part, the term of office of each elective officer, elected or appointed pursuant to this part, is four years...
• California Elections Code Section 10508
  The principal act shall govern whether directors of a district are elected by divisions or by the district at large.
• California Elections Code Section 10509
  On the 125th day prior to the day fixed for the general district election, the secretary shall deliver a notice to the county elections official....
• California Elections Code Section 10510
  (a) Forms for declarations of candidacy for all district offices shall be obtained from the office of the county elections official. The county elections official...
• California Elections Code Section 10511
  The declaration of candidacy shall be in substantially the following form: I, _________________, do hereby declare myself as a candidate for election to the office...
• California Elections Code Section 10512
  Each candidate shall set forth in full the oath or affirmation set forth in Section 3 of Article XX of the California Constitution, which shall...
• California Elections Code Section 10513
  Upon filing each declaration of candidacy, the county elections official shall examine the declaration to determine if it conforms with the provisions of this part...
• California Elections Code Section 10514
  The qualifications of a candidate for elective office, and of an elective officer, of a district shall be determined by the principal act of that
• California Elections Code Section 10515
  (a) If, by 5 p.m. on the 83rd day prior to the day fixed for the general district election: (1) only one person has filed...
• California Elections Code Section 10516
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in any district or agency election, if a declaration of candidacy for an incumbent elective officer of a...
• California Elections Code Section 10517
  Except as otherwise provided by this part, the county elections official of each affected county shall conduct the general district election for the portion of...
• California Elections Code Section 10518
  If, within any portion of a county, only one district has scheduled a general district election, the county elections official may authorize the appropriate officer...
• California Elections Code Section 10519
  At the request of a district governing body, the county elections official may perform any of the duties of the district secretary and the supervising...
• California Elections Code Section 10520
  Each district involved in a general district election in an affected county shall reimburse the county for the actual costs incurred by the county elections...
• California Elections Code Section 10521
  Qualifications of voters of a district, the number of votes each voter may cast, and the method of determining that number of votes shall be...
• California Elections Code Section 10522
  At least 125 days prior to the day fixed for the general district election, the secretary of a resident voting district shall deliver to the...
• California Elections Code Section 10523
  Notwithstanding any provision in the principal act, elections shall be at large in any resident voter district in which there are fewer than 100 voters.
• California Elections Code Section 10524
  At least 125 days prior to the date fixed by the general district election, the secretary of a landowner voting district shall deliver to the...
• California Elections Code Section 10525
  (a) At least 35 days prior to the date fixed for the landowner district election, the secretary of a landowner district for which an election...
• California Elections Code Section 10526
  At least 30 days prior to the day fixed for the next general district election, the county elections official shall have prepared a sufficient number...
• California Elections Code Section 10527
  At least 20 days prior to the date fixed for the next general district election, the county elections official shall have prepared a sufficient number...
• California Elections Code Section 10528
  Except as otherwise provided by this part, the form of the ballot to be used by the voters of a landowner voting district participating in...
• California Elections Code Section 10529
  Whenever a candidate has filed a declaration of candidacy, and the candidate's declaration of candidacy has been certified as sufficient pursuant to Section 10513, the...
• California Elections Code Section 10530
  Vote by mail voting shall be allowed and conducted as nearly as practicable in accordance with Division 3 (commencing with Section 3000) pertaining to general...
• California Elections Code Section 10531
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, vote by mail voting shall be allowed in lieu of voting by proxy in any landowner district election in...
• California Elections Code Section 10532
  Nothing in this part shall prohibit a voter of a district, or his legal representative, from voting by proxy if this right is provided for...
• California Elections Code Section 10533
  (a) The county elections official shall prepare for each precinct one voter list and one roster for each ballot form to be used at the...
• California Elections Code Section 10534
  If the county elections official fails to appoint a precinct board or the members appointed are not present when the polls open on the day...
• California Elections Code Section 10535
  The inspector is chairman of the precinct board.
• California Elections Code Section 10536
  If during the election any judge or elections official ceases to act, the inspector may appoint a substitute.
• California Elections Code Section 10537
  If the inspector ceases to act, a majority of the remaining members of the precinct board may appoint a substitute.
• California Elections Code Section 10538
  Any member of a precinct board may administer and certify oaths required to be administered during an election.
• California Elections Code Section 10539
  Before opening the polls, each member of the precinct board shall sign a declaration to perform faithfully his or her duties, before the inspector or...
• California Elections Code Section 10540
  Candidates' statements of their qualifications submitted in accordance with Section 13307 shall be filed with the county elections official, who shall cause the voters' pamphlet,...
• California Elections Code Section 10541
  The polls shall open at 7 a.m. and remain open until 8 p.m. In any precinct in which all of the eligible voters have voted...
• California Elections Code Section 10542
  The principal act of each landowner voting district participating in the general district election shall govern the manner in which the ballot is delivered by...
• California Elections Code Section 10543
  Voting shall be conducted, the canvass at the polls made, and the returns delivered to the county elections official, except as otherwise provided by this...
• California Elections Code Section 10544
  A governing body of a district may, by resolution, limit campaign contributions in elections to district offices.
• California Elections Code Section 10545
  The envelope, certificate with the roster of voters, tally lists, voter list, and the marked copy of index of voters, if it is used, shall...
• California Elections Code Section 10546
  Recount of votes in any general district election shall be governed by the provisions of Chapter 12 (commencing with Section 15600) of Division 15.
• California Elections Code Section 10547
  The county elections official shall commence the canvass of the returns not later than the first Thursday after each general district election.
• California Elections Code Section 10548
  The canvass shall be made in public and by opening the returns and determining the vote for each person voted for and declaring the results
• California Elections Code Section 10549
  No roster, tally list, or certificate returned from any general district election shall be set aside or rejected for want of form if it can...
• California Elections Code Section 10550
  As soon as the result of the canvass by the county elections official is declared, the county elections official shall prepare and mail a statement...
• California Elections Code Section 10551
  (a) No later than the Monday before the first Friday in December the county elections official shall declare the elected candidate or candidates. If there...
• California Elections Code Section 10552
  No later than December 31 immediately following a general district election, the county elections official shall file with the Secretary of State a statement containing...
• California Elections Code Section 10553
  The county elections official shall immediately make and deliver to each person elected a certificate of election signed by the county elections official.
• California Elections Code Section 10554
  Elective officers, elected or appointed pursuant to this part, take office at noon on the first Friday in December next following the general district election....
• California Elections Code Section 10555
  Notwithstanding Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 1000) of Division 1, no landowner voting district election shall be consolidated with any resident voter election regardless of...
• California Elections Code Section 10556
  No informalities in the conduct of the general district election or any matters related to it shall invalidate the election if fairly conducted.
• California Elections Code Section 10600
  When one member of the governing board of a school district or community college district is to be elected, the candidate receiving the highest number...
• California Elections Code Section 10601
  Notwithstanding Section 10600, the governing board of any community college district may, by a resolution adopted by a majority vote of the board, assign a...
• California Elections Code Section 10602
  (a) The forms for declaration of candidacy for governing board elections shall be in substantially the following form: "I, _____, do hereby declare myself as...
• California Elections Code Section 10603
  (a) In any school district or community college district governing board election the name of any person shall be placed on the ballot, subject to...
• California Elections Code Section 10604
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 10603, if a declaration of candidacy for an incumbent member of a school district or community college district governing board or of...
• California Elections Code Section 10700
  The Governor shall call all statewide special elections by issuing a proclamation pursuant to Section 12000. Except as provided by Chapter 3 (commencing with Section...
• California Elections Code Section 10701
  (a) When a vacancy occurs in a congressional office after the close of the nomination period in the final year of the term of office,...
• California Elections Code Section 10702
  Except as provided by Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 10730), this chapter provides the procedures for nomination and election of candidates at any special election...
• California Elections Code Section 10703
  (a) A special election to fill a vacancy in the office of Representative in Congress, State Senator, or Member of the Assembly shall be conducted...
• California Elections Code Section 10704
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a special primary election shall be held in the district in which the vacancy occurred on the 9th...
• California Elections Code Section 10705
  (a) All candidates shall be listed on one ballot and, except as provided in subdivision (b), if any candidate receives a majority of all votes...
• California Elections Code Section 10706
  If no candidate receives a majority of votes cast, the names of the candidates who receive the highest or second highest number of votes cast...
• California Elections Code Section 10707
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this code, whenever a special general election, or a special primary election, to fill a vacancy in Congress or the...
• California Elections Code Section 10720
  If a vacancy occurs in the representation of this state in the Senate of the United States, the Governor may appoint and commission an elector...
• California Elections Code Section 10730
  (a) This chapter provides the procedures for nomination and election of candidates at a special election to fill vacancies in the House of Representatives caused...
• California Elections Code Section 10731
  For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Catastrophe" means a natural or man-made event that causes a vacancy in...
• California Elections Code Section 10732
  Within seven calendar days of a catastrophe, the Governor shall issue a proclamation calling a special election pursuant to Section 10703.
• California Elections Code Section 10733
  (a) In the event of a catastrophe that causes a vacancy in at least 101 of the offices of the United States House of Representatives,...
• California Elections Code Section 10734
  (a) A special primary election shall not be held for a special general election conducted pursuant to this chapter. Candidates at the special general election...
• California Elections Code Section 10735
  (a) (1) In the case of a special election due to a catastrophe that causes a vacancy in at least 101 offices of the United...
• California Elections Code Section 11000
  This division governs the recall of elective officers of the State of California and of all counties, cities, school districts, county boards of education, community...
• California Elections Code Section 11001
  For the purposes of this division, judges of courts of appeal shall be considered state officers, and judges of trial courts shall be considered county
• California Elections Code Section 11002
  For the purposes of this division, "elections official" means one of the following: (a) A county elections official in the case of the recall of...
• California Elections Code Section 11003
  For the purposes of this division, "governing board" means a city council, the board of supervisors of a county, the board of trustees of a...
• California Elections Code Section 11004
  For the purposes of this division, a "local officer" is an elective officer of a city, county, school district, community college district, or special district,...
• California Elections Code Section 11005
  The proponents of a recall must be registered voters of the electoral jurisdiction of the officer they seek to recall.
• California Elections Code Section 11006
  Proceedings may be commenced for the recall of any elective officer, including any officer appointed in lieu of election or to fill a vacancy, by...
• California Elections Code Section 11007
  Except when a person has been appointed to office pursuant to Section 10229 because no person had been nominated to office, proceedings may not be...
• California Elections Code Section 11020
  The notice of intention shall contain all of the following: (a) The name and title of the officer sought to be recalled. (b) A statement,...
• California Elections Code Section 11021
  A copy of the notice of intention shall be served by personal delivery, or by certified mail, on the officer sought to be recalled. Within...
• California Elections Code Section 11022
  A copy of the notice, except the provisions required by subdivision (d) of Section 11020, shall be published at the proponents' expense pursuant to Section...
• California Elections Code Section 11023
  (a) Within seven days after the filing of the notice of intention, the officer sought to be recalled may file with the elections official, or...
• California Elections Code Section 11024
  The statement and answer are intended solely for the information of the voters. No insufficiency in form or substance thereof shall affect the validity of...
• California Elections Code Section 11040
  (a) The petition may consist of any number of separate sections, which shall be duplicates except as to signatures and matters required to be affixed...
• California Elections Code Section 11041
  (a) The proponents shall use the recall petition format provided by the Secretary of State and available from the county elections official or the Secretary...
• California Elections Code Section 11042
  (a) Within 10 days after filing of the answer to the notice of intention, or, if no answer is filed, within 10 days after the...
• California Elections Code Section 11043
  (a) The petition sections shall be designed so that each signer shall personally affix all of the following: (1) His or her signature. (2) His...
• California Elections Code Section 11043.5
  (a) The Secretary of State shall provide to county elections officials a recall petition format for distribution to proponents of a recall. The recall petition...
• California Elections Code Section 11044
  Separate petitions are necessary to propose the recall of each officer.
• California Elections Code Section 11045
  Only registered voters of the electoral jurisdiction of the officer sought to be recalled are qualified to circulate or sign a recall petition for that
• California Elections Code Section 11046
  To each section of a petition shall be attached a declaration, signed by the circulator thereof, that complies with Section 104. The declaration shall include...
• California Elections Code Section 11047
  When a petition is circulated in more than one county for the recall of an officer, each section of the petition shall bear the name...
• California Elections Code Section 11100
  (a) This chapter applies only to the recall of state officers. (b) In addition to this chapter, Sections 13 to 18, inclusive, of Article II...
• California Elections Code Section 11101
  Unless and until it is otherwise proven upon official investigation, it shall be presumed that the petition presented contains the signatures of the requisite number...
• California Elections Code Section 11102
  Each section of a recall petition shall be filed with the elections official of the county for which it was circulated.
• California Elections Code Section 11103
  Each section of the petition shall be filed by the proponents or by any person or persons authorized, in writing, by a proponent. Each time...
• California Elections Code Section 11104
  (a) The elections official, 30 days after a recall has been initiated and every 30 days thereafter, or more frequently at the discretion of the...
• California Elections Code Section 11105
  Upon each submission, if fewer than 500 signatures are submitted to the elections official, he or she shall count the number of signatures and submit...
• California Elections Code Section 11106
  Immediately after the deadline for submission of all signatures, the elections official shall verify any remaining signatures in the same manner set forth in subdivisions...
• California Elections Code Section 11107
  The elections official, upon the completion of each examination, shall forthwith attach to the petition a certificate, properly dated, showing the result of the examination,...
• California Elections Code Section 11108
  When the Secretary of State has received from one or more county elections officials a petition certified to have been signed by the stated number...
• California Elections Code Section 11109
  When the Secretary of State determines that the proponents have collected sufficient signatures, he or she shall certify that fact to the Governor.
• California Elections Code Section 11110
  Upon receiving certification of the sufficiency of the recall petitions from the Secretary of State, the Governor shall make or cause to be made publication...
• California Elections Code Section 11200
  This chapter shall apply to the recall of local officers.
• California Elections Code Section 11201
  When the city or county elections official is the officer sought to be recalled, the duties imposed upon him or her shall be performed by...
• California Elections Code Section 11220
  (a) A recall petition shall be submitted to the elections official for filing in his or her office during normal office hours as posted within...
• California Elections Code Section 11221
  The number of qualified signatures required in order to qualify a recall for the ballot shall be as follows: (a) In the case of an...
• California Elections Code Section 11222
  (a) The petition shall be filed by the proponents, or by any person or persons authorized, in writing, by a proponent. All sections of the...
• California Elections Code Section 11223
  If the petition was circulated in more than one county, the elections official of each county shall affix, with the certificate showing the results of...
• California Elections Code Section 11224
  (a) Except as provided in Section 11225, within 30 days from the date of filing of the petition, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, the elections...
• California Elections Code Section 11225
  (a) Within 30 days from the date of filing of the petition, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, if, from the examination of petitions pursuant to...
• California Elections Code Section 11226
  If the certificate shows that the petition is insufficient, no action shall be taken on it, but the petition shall remain on file.
• California Elections Code Section 11227
  If the elections official finds the signatures on the petition to be sufficient, he or she shall submit his or her certificate as to the...
• California Elections Code Section 11240
  Within 14 days after the meeting at which the governing body received the certificate of sufficiency as specified in Section 11227, the governing body shall...
• California Elections Code Section 11241
  If the governing board fails to issue the order within the time specified in Section 11240, the county elections official, within five days, shall set...
• California Elections Code Section 11242
  The election shall be held not less than 88, nor more than 125, days after the issuance of the order, and if a regular or...
• California Elections Code Section 11300
  No insufficiency in a petition against any officer shall bar the later filing of a new petition against that officer.
• California Elections Code Section 11301
  If a petition is found insufficient by the elections official or, in the case of the recall of a state officer, the Secretary of State,...
• California Elections Code Section 11302
  If a vacancy occurs in an office after a recall petition is filed against the vacating officer, the recall election shall nevertheless proceed. The vacancy...
• California Elections Code Section 11303
  A voter who has signed a recall petition shall have his or her signature withdrawn from the petition upon filing a written request therefor with...
• California Elections Code Section 11320
  The following shall appear on the ballots at every recall election, except in the case of a landowner voting district, with respect to each officer...
• California Elections Code Section 11322
  In addition to the material contained in Section 11320, the following shall appear on ballots at all recall elections, except at a landowner voting district...
• California Elections Code Section 11323
  A voter shall indicate, by using the stamp or other marking device to place a mark in the voting space opposite either "Yes" or "No",...
• California Elections Code Section 11324
  The official responsible for preparing the ballot shall, at least 10 days prior to the recall election, mail a sample ballot to each registered voter...
• California Elections Code Section 11325
  (a) With the sample ballot there shall be mailed for each officer whose recall is sought, a printed copy of the following: (1) The statement...
• California Elections Code Section 11327
  An officer whose recall is being sought may file a statement with the elections official in accordance with Section 13307, to be sent to each...
• California Elections Code Section 11328
  A recall election shall be conducted, canvassed, and the results declared in substantially the manner provided by law for a regular election for the office.
• California Elections Code Section 11329
  One election is sufficient for the recall of several officers.
• California Elections Code Section 11381
  Nominations of candidates to succeed the recalled officer shall be made in the manner prescribed for nominating a candidate to that office in a regular...
• California Elections Code Section 11383
  If one-half or more of the votes at a recall election are "No", the officer sought to be recalled shall continue in office.
• California Elections Code Section 11384
  If a majority of the votes on a recall proposal are "Yes", the officer sought to be recalled shall be removed from office upon the...
• California Elections Code Section 11385
  If at a recall election an officer is recalled, the candidate receiving the highest number of votes for the office shall be declared elected for...
• California Elections Code Section 11386
  If the candidate who received the highest number of votes fails to qualify within 10 days after receiving his or her certificate of election, the...
• California Elections Code Section 12000
  For each statewide election, the Governor shall issue a proclamation calling the election. The proclamation shall be issued by the Governor under his or her...
• California Elections Code Section 12001
  For a special local election, the governing body of the local agency shall issue a proclamation or a resolution calling the election.
• California Elections Code Section 12101
  (a) Not earlier than the 127th nor later than the 113th day before any municipal election to fill offices, the city elections official shall publish...
• California Elections Code Section 12102
  The notice of the municipal election shall be substantially in the following form: Notice is hereby given that a ____ (general or special) municipal election...
• California Elections Code Section 12103
  At least 158 days before the direct primary, the Secretary of State shall prepare and transmit to each county elections official a notice designating all...
• California Elections Code Section 12104
  (a) A notice designating the offices for which candidates are to be nominated shall be in substantially the following form: NOTICE BY SECRETARY OF STATE...
• California Elections Code Section 12105
  (a) The elections official shall, not less than one week before the election, publish the list of the polling places designated for each election precinct....
• California Elections Code Section 12105.5
  (a) Not less than one week before the election, the elections official shall post a list of all current polling places in each precinct and...
• California Elections Code Section 12106
  (a) The elections official shall publish, as provided in this section and Section 12105, the list of polling places designated for each election precinct in...
• California Elections Code Section 12107
  (a) The elections official shall let the contracts for publication, pursuant to Section 12106, of the list of polling places designated for each election precinct,...
• California Elections Code Section 12108
  In a case in which this chapter requires the posting or distribution of a list of the names of precinct board members, or a portion...
• California Elections Code Section 12109
  Whenever the ballots at any election or from any precincts are to be tallied at a central place and not at the precincts, the elections...
• California Elections Code Section 12110
  In case of a municipal election to fill offices, the city elections official shall not later than one week before the election publish a list...
• California Elections Code Section 12111
  (a) In case of a municipal election on any measure, the city elections official shall publish a synopsis of the measure at least one time...
• California Elections Code Section 12112
  (a) At least 90 days, and not more than 120 days, before the day fixed for the general district election, the elections official of the...
• California Elections Code Section 12113
  For each school or special district, the county elections official immediately shall deliver a copy of all published notices to the district secretary. Each notice...
• California Elections Code Section 12200
  This chapter applies to all jurisdictions.
• California Elections Code Section 12220
  The elections official shall divide the jurisdiction into precincts and prepare detail maps or exterior descriptions thereof, or both, and as many copies as the...
• California Elections Code Section 12221
  In any order establishing precincts, their boundaries shall be defined by reference to exterior descriptions or delineation thereof on a map or maps.
• California Elections Code Section 12222
  (a) No precinct shall be established so that its boundary crosses the boundary of any supervisorial district, congressional district, senatorial district, Assembly district, board of...
• California Elections Code Section 12223
  (a) Whenever a jurisdiction is divided into election precincts or whenever the boundary of an established precinct is changed or a new precinct is created,...
• California Elections Code Section 12224
  At the discretion of the elections official, the voters of the precinct may be divided into two or more groups, as nearly equal as possible,...
• California Elections Code Section 12225
  Whenever a precinct is entirely owned or controlled by the United States, and no permission is granted by the federal authorities for the establishment of...
• California Elections Code Section 12241
  (a) The elections official conducting local, special, or consolidated elections, or statewide elections other than the direct primary, presidential primary, or general election, for the...
• California Elections Code Section 12260
  (a) The elections official may change or alter any precinct boundaries. (b) If any changes or alterations are made the elections official shall prepare new...
• California Elections Code Section 12261
  (a) The boundaries of precincts for the general election shall be the same as those established for the direct primary election, except to the extent...
• California Elections Code Section 12262
  Jurisdictional boundary changes occurring less than 88 days before an election shall not be effective for purposes of that election. Voters residing within an area...
• California Elections Code Section 12280
  When designating polling places, the elections official shall undertake necessary measures in the locating of polling places to ensure that polling places meet the guidelines...
• California Elections Code Section 12281
  (a) If, for any valid reason, the polling place designated for any precinct cannot be used, and this fact is known in sufficient time to...
• California Elections Code Section 12282
  Property exempted from taxation pursuant to Section 214 of the Revenue and Taxation Code shall be made available free of charge to the elections official...
• California Elections Code Section 12283
  (a) The governing body having jurisdiction over school buildings or other public buildings may authorize the use of its buildings for polling places on any...
• California Elections Code Section 12284
  Upon request of the elections official, state-owned buildings, parking lots, and other facilities shall be made available free of charge for use as polling places,...
• California Elections Code Section 12285
  A mobilehome may be used as a polling place if the elections official determines that no other facilities are available for the convenient exercise of...
• California Elections Code Section 12286
  (a) At least 29 days prior to the election, the elections official shall do all of the following: (1) Establish a convenient number of election...
• California Elections Code Section 12287
  A candidate's residence shall not be designated as a polling place for an election at which that candidate's name will appear on the ballot.
• California Elections Code Section 12287.5
  A single-family residence shall not be designated as a polling place if elections officials determine that it has the registered address of a person who...
• California Elections Code Section 12288
  A place where the primary purpose of the establishment is the sale and dispensation of alcoholic beverages may not be used as a polling place....
• California Elections Code Section 12300
  Any voter may file an application with the elections official for the position of precinct board member. The elections official may require the application be...
• California Elections Code Section 12301
  The persons appointed to serve as election officers for each precinct at any election shall constitute the precinct board for that precinct.
• California Elections Code Section 12302
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a member of a precinct board shall be a voter of the state. The member may serve only...
• California Elections Code Section 12303
  (a) No person who cannot read or write the English language is eligible to act as a member of any precinct board. (b) It is...
• California Elections Code Section 12304
  (a) The composition of the precinct board shall be determined by the elections official based on election precinct size. The precinct board shall consist of...
• California Elections Code Section 12306
  The county elections official of any county, in appointing members of the several precinct boards to serve in the direct primary and general elections under...
• California Elections Code Section 12307
  Upon filing the list of names and addresses of those who have been appointed members of the precinct board, the elections official shall immediately mail...
• California Elections Code Section 12309
  (a) Following the appointment of members of precinct boards, the elections official shall instruct inspectors so appointed concerning their duties in connection with the conduct...
• California Elections Code Section 12309.5
  (a) No later than June 30, 2005, the Secretary of State shall adopt uniform standards for the training of precinct board members, based upon the...
• California Elections Code Section 12310
  Each member of a precinct board shall receive a stipend for services fixed by the governing body of the jurisdiction. This sum shall be paid...
• California Elections Code Section 12311
  No public agency shall be required as the result of any assignment or transfer to pay the stipend of an election officer for services to...
• California Elections Code Section 12312
  No person shall be suspended or discharged from any service or employment because of absence while serving as an election officer on election day.
• California Elections Code Section 12313
  If any member of a precinct board does not appear at the opening of the polls on the morning of an election, those voters present,...
• California Elections Code Section 12314
  The inspector may appoint a voter to replace any precinct board member who ceases to act or becomes incapacitated during the progress of an election.
• California Elections Code Section 12315
  If the inspector ceases to act, a majority of the remaining members of the precinct board may appoint a substitute.
• California Elections Code Section 12316
  In constituting precinct boards, the elections official may excuse persons appointed whom the elections official is satisfied ought to be excused. Substitutions may be made...
• California Elections Code Section 12318
  (a) Following the notification of the precinct board members appointed pursuant to Section 12307, the county elections official shall mail or deliver to the county...
• California Elections Code Section 12319
  The elections official shall immediately mail or deliver to each person appointed as inspector a notice showing the precinct polling place and the voters appointed...
• California Elections Code Section 12320
  No person is eligible to act as an election officer until the declaration required by Section 12321 has been signed.
• California Elections Code Section 12321
  (a) (1) Each inspector shall sign a declaration of intention to faithfully discharge the duties of inspector and shall return it to the elections official...
• California Elections Code Section 12327
  (a) If the precinct board members for any precinct have not been appointed or cannot serve, or the polling place has not been designated prior...
• California Elections Code Section 13000
  The person in charge of elections for any county, city and county, city, or district shall provide ballots for any elections within his or her...
• California Elections Code Section 13001
  All expenses authorized and necessarily incurred in the preparation for, and conduct of, elections as provided in this code shall be paid from the county...
• California Elections Code Section 13002
  Ballot paper and ballot cards used by a jurisdiction holding an election pursuant to the laws of California shall be tinted and watermarked or overprinted...
• California Elections Code Section 13004
  (a) The Secretary of State shall adopt regulations governing the manufacture, finishing, quality standards, distribution, and inventory control of ballot cards and requiring the biennial...
• California Elections Code Section 13005
  (a) Before a user may purchase ballot cards, the user shall request in writing a release for a specific quantity of these ballot cards from...
• California Elections Code Section 13006
  A user, vendor, or manufacturer shall not warehouse for a subsequent election ballot paper or ballot cards furnished or released by the Secretary of State...
• California Elections Code Section 13100
  All ballots used in all elections shall be governed by this chapter unless otherwise specifically provided.
• California Elections Code Section 13101
  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...
• California Elections Code 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...
• California Elections Code 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...
• California Elections Code 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...
• California Elections Code 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...
• California Elections Code 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...
• California Elections Code 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...
• California Elections Code 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...
• California Elections Code 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...
• California Elections Code Section 13108
  (a) At the first elections for Representative in Congress, State Senator, Assemblyman and Members of the Board of Equalization in each congressional, senatorial, Assembly, and...
• California Elections Code 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...
• California Elections Code 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...
• California Elections Code 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...
• California Elections Code 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...
• California Elections Code 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....
• California Elections Code 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),...
• California Elections Code 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...
• California Elections Code Section 13115
  The order in which all state measures that are to be submitted to the voters shall appear upon the ballot is as follows: (a) Bond...
• California Elections Code 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...
• California Elections Code 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...
• California Elections Code Section 13118
  The following rules apply whenever any person who is a candidate for any office believes that some other person with a name that is so...
• California Elections Code Section 13119
  The ballots used when voting upon a proposed county, city, or district ordinance submitted to the voters of the respective local government as an initiative...
• California Elections Code 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...
• California Elections Code 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...
• California Elections Code Section 13200
  Ballots not printed in accordance with this chapter shall not be cast nor counted at any election.
• California Elections Code Section 13201
  The ballots of each political party's central committee shall be designed so that each ballot may be easily and clearly distinguished from, and not confused...
• California Elections Code Section 13202
  All ballots of the same sort prepared by any county elections official, clerk or secretary of a legislative body, or other person having charge of...
• California Elections Code Section 13203
  Across the top of the ballot shall be printed in heavy-faced gothic capital type not smaller than 30-point, the words "OFFICIAL BALLOT." However, if the...
• California Elections Code Section 13204
  (a) The instructions to voters shall be printed at least three-eighths of an inch below the district designation. The instructions shall begin with the words...
• California Elections Code Section 13205
  Additional instructions to voters shall appear on the ballot prior to those provided for in Section 13204 under the following conditions: (a) In a primary...
• California Elections Code Section 13206
  (a) On the partisan ballot used in a direct primary election, immediately below the instructions to voters, there shall be a box not less than...
• California Elections Code Section 13206.5
  (a) (1) On the ballot used in a statewide general election in each year evenly divisible by the number four, immediately below the instructions to...
• California Elections Code Section 13207
  (a) There shall be printed on the ballot in parallel columns all of the following: (1) The respective offices. (2) The names of candidates with...
• California Elections Code Section 13208
  (a) In the right-hand margin of each column light vertical lines shall be printed in such a way as to create a voting square after...
• California Elections Code Section 13209
  Whenever a foreign translation of the ballot is required by the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended by Public Law 94-73, to appear...
• California Elections Code Section 13210
  (a) In the case of candidates for delegate to national convention, there shall be printed in boldface gothic type, not smaller than 12-point, across the...
• California Elections Code Section 13211
  The names of the candidates shall be printed on the ballot, without indentation, in roman capital, boldface type not smaller than eight-point, between light lines...
• California Elections Code Section 13211.5
  (a) Each group of names of candidates for a particular office shall be printed in immediate succession to another group of names of candidates for...
• California Elections Code Section 13212
  Except for a voter-nominated office at a general election, under the designation of each office shall be printed as many blank spaces, defined by light...
• California Elections Code Section 13213
  Each group of names of candidates for a particular office shall be separated from the succeeding group by a three-point rule. Each series of groups...
• California Elections Code Section 13214
  The left-hand side of the first column of names on the ballot and the right-hand side of the last column of voting squares on the...
• California Elections Code Section 13215
  The ballots shall be printed on the same leaf with a stub not over one inch in depth. The stub shall be separated from the...
• California Elections Code Section 13216
  (a) On each ballot a horizontal non-solid-ruled line shall extend across the top of the ballot one inch below the horizontal perforated line. The same...
• California Elections Code Section 13217
  The number on each ballot shall be the same as that on the corresponding stub, and the ballots and stubs shall be numbered consecutively in...
• California Elections Code Section 13219
  When printed, all ballots shall be bound in stub books, of such size as the clerk may determine. A record of the number of ballots...
• California Elections Code Section 13220
  If two or more officers are to be elected for the same office for different terms, the terms for which each candidate for the office...
• California Elections Code Section 13230
  (a) If the county elections official determines that, due to the number of candidates and measures that must be printed on the ballot, the ballot...
• California Elections Code Section 13231
  If the elections official of any county finds it necessary in connection with the use of any approved method of vote counting, he or she...
• California Elections Code Section 13232
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for the purpose of conducting the Democratic Party Presidential Primary Election, the Secretary of State may, if it is...
• California Elections Code Section 13233
  In a municipal election, if the number of candidates for an office is such that all of the names will not fit in one column...
• California Elections Code Section 13240
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this code, the ballots to be counted by means of electronic or electromechanical devices may be of a size, composition,...
• California Elections Code Section 13241
  The names of the candidates and the respective offices shall be printed on the ballot in parallel columns at least 2 1/2 inches wide.
• California Elections Code Section 13242
  Where electromechanical vote tabulating devices are used to count all or part of the ballots, the names of presidential candidates may be printed in the...
• California Elections Code Section 13243
  The ballots may contain printed code marks or punched holes that may be used for placing the ballots in correct reading position in the counting...
• California Elections Code Section 13244
  The sample ballot provided pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 13300) shall be a substantial facsimile of the official ballot, including instructions to voters.
• California Elections Code Section 13246
  The device for marking the ballot may be of any size, shape, or form, and the impression made on the ballot may be in the...
• California Elections Code Section 13247
  The statement of all measures submitted to the voters shall be abbreviated on the ballot in a ballot label as provided for in Section 9051....
• California Elections Code Section 13260
  In approving ballots and ballot cards, the Secretary of State shall not give his or her approval unless the following are true: (a) The size,...
• California Elections Code Section 13261
  (a) Each ballot card shall have two stubs attached. The stubs shall be separated from the ballot card and from each other by perforated lines...
• California Elections Code Section 13262
  (a) The ballot shall contain the same material as to candidates and measures, and shall be printed in the same order as provided for paper...
• California Elections Code Section 13263
  The sample ballot provided pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 13300) shall be printed in either of two formats: (a) booklet form, or (b)...
• California Elections Code Section 13264
  If more than one ballot card is used at an election, different tints of cardboard stock or other suitable means may be used for each...
• California Elections Code Section 13265
  If the number of offices and measures to be voted upon at an election cannot be accommodated on one ballot card, the elections official may,...
• California Elections Code Section 13266
  If punchcard ballots are used for vote by mail voting, the ballots shall be marked by pencil, or by a marking device that enables the...
• California Elections Code Section 13267
  If an official ballot consisting of one or more individual ballot cards upon which the names of candidates and measures are printed is used for...
• California Elections Code Section 13282
  Whenever the Attorney General prepares a ballot label, the Attorney General shall file a copy of the ballot label with the Secretary of State. The...
• California Elections Code Section 13283
  The ballot label shall be printed by the elections official in black ink on clear material of a size that will fit the machine, of...
• California Elections Code Section 13284
  The list of offices and candidates and the statements of measures used on the voting machines is an official ballot.
• California Elections Code Section 13285
  The county elections official shall furnish sufficient ballot labels for the voting machines used at any election.
• California Elections Code Section 13286
  The officers or board charged with the duty of providing ballots for any polling place shall provide the polling place with two sample ballots, which...
• California Elections Code Section 13287
  The sample ballots shall be either in full or reduced size, and shall contain suitable illustrated directions for voting on the voting machine.
• California Elections Code Section 13288
  The ballot labels shall be delivered to the officer in charge of the voting machines at least 30 days before the election.
• California Elections Code Section 13289
  At the presidential primary, if the voting machine will accommodate it, the county central committee election ballot shall be placed upon the voting machine together...
• California Elections Code Section 13300
  (a) By at least 29 days before the partisan primary, each county elections official shall prepare a separate sample ballot for each political party and...
• California Elections Code Section 13300.5
  In order to facilitate the timely production and distribution of sample ballots, the county elections official may prepare a combined sample ballot.
• California Elections Code Section 13300.7
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, county and city elections officials may establish procedures designed to permit a voter to opt out of receiving his...
• California Elections Code Section 13301
  (a) At the time the county elections official prepares sample ballots for the presidential primary, he or she shall also prepare a list with the...
• California Elections Code Section 13302
  (a) The county elections official shall forthwith submit the sample ballot of each political party to the chairperson of the county central committee of that...
• California Elections Code 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...
• California Elections Code 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...
• California Elections Code Section 13306
  Notwithstanding Sections 13300, 13301, 13303, and 13307, sample ballots and candidates' statements need not be mailed to voters who registered after the 54th day before...
• California Elections Code 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...
• California Elections Code Section 13307.5
  A candidate for United States Representative may purchase the space to place a statement in the voter information portion of the sample ballot that does...
• California Elections Code 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...
• California Elections Code 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,...
• California Elections Code 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...
• California Elections Code 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...
• California Elections Code Section 13312
  Each voter's pamphlet prepared pursuant to Section 13307 shall contain a statement in the heading of the first page in heavy-faced gothic type, not smaller...
• California Elections Code 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...
• California Elections Code 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...
• California Elections Code Section 13315
  The officer charged with the duty of providing sample ballots for any election at which vote by mail voter ballots may be cast shall cause...
• California Elections Code Section 13316
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a county, city, city and county, or district using voting machines may use reasonable facsimiles of...
• California Elections Code Section 13317
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a county, city, city and county, or district using vote tabulating devices may use reasonable facsimiles...
• California Elections Code Section 14000
  (a) If a voter does not have sufficient time outside of working hours to vote at a statewide election, the voter may, without loss of...
• California Elections Code Section 14001
  Not less than 10 days before every statewide election, every employer shall keep posted conspicuously at the place of work, if practicable, or elsewhere where...
• California Elections Code Section 14002
  Sections 14000 and 14001 shall apply to all public agencies and the employees thereof, as well as to employers and employees in private industry.
• California Elections Code Section 14003
  Except in time of war or public danger, no voter is obliged to perform militia duty on any election day.
• California Elections Code Section 14025
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the California Voting Rights Act of 2001.
• California Elections Code Section 14026
  As used in this chapter: (a) "At-large method of election" means any of the following methods of electing members to the governing body of a...
• California Elections Code Section 14027
  An at-large method of election may not be imposed or applied in a manner that impairs the ability of a protected class to elect candidates...
• California Elections Code Section 14028
  (a) A violation of Section 14027 is established if it is shown that racially polarized voting occurs in elections for members of the governing body...
• California Elections Code Section 14029
  Upon a finding of a violation of Section 14027 and Section 14028, the court shall implement appropriate remedies, including the imposition of district-based elections, that...
• California Elections Code Section 14030
  In any action to enforce Section 14027 and Section 14028, the court shall allow the prevailing plaintiff party, other than the state or political subdivision...
• California Elections Code Section 14031
  This chapter is enacted to implement the guarantees of Section 7 of Article I and of Section 2 of Article II of the California Constitution.
• California Elections Code Section 14032
  Any voter who is a member of a protected class and who resides in a political subdivision where a violation of Sections 14027 and 14028...
• California Elections Code Section 14100
  The county elections official, in providing the materials required by this division, shall not be required to utilize the services of the county purchasing agent.
• California Elections Code Section 14101
  (a) On or before the first day of January of each even-numbered year, the Secretary of State and the Attorney General shall prepare a brief...
• California Elections Code Section 14102
  (a) (1) For each statewide election, the elections official shall provide a sufficient number of official ballots in each precinct to reasonably meet the needs...
• California Elections Code Section 14103
  Before the opening of the polls at any election, the elections official shall cause to be delivered to the precinct board in each precinct in...
• California Elections Code Section 14104
  The elections official shall prepare a receipt for each polling place, enumerating the packages and stating the date of delivery to the precinct board member....
• California Elections Code Section 14105
  The elections official shall furnish to the precinct officers all of the following: (a) Printed copies of the indexes. (b) Necessary printed blanks for the...
• California Elections Code Section 14105.1
  In addition to the materials identified in Section 14105, the elections official shall furnish to the precinct officers printed copies of the notices specified in...
• California Elections Code Section 14105.3
  (a) The federal Help America Vote Act of 2002 (P.L. 107-252) requires voting information to be publicly posted at each polling place on the day...
• California Elections Code Section 14105.5
  Members of the precinct board shall not display, distribute, or make available at the polling place any materials other than those required pursuant to this...
• California Elections Code Section 14106
  In addition to the materials required by Section 14105, the elections official shall provide signs, or materials for making signs, advising voters that an election...
• California Elections Code Section 14107
  (a) The roster to be kept by each precinct board shall be substantially in the following form: Roster of the ________ election held in the...
• California Elections Code Section 14108
  In addition to the provisions contained in Section 14107, the roster shall contain, in no less than 6-point type at the head of each page,...
• California Elections Code Section 14109
  Notwithstanding Sections 14105 and 14107, the roster to be kept by each precinct board may be in a form of an index to the affidavits...
• California Elections Code Section 14110
  All officers required by law to designate polling places shall furnish the polling places with a sufficient number of places, booths, or compartments, at or...
• California Elections Code Section 14111
  Translations of the ballot measures and ballot instructions, as required by Section 14201, shall be provided by a person selected by the elections official from...
• California Elections Code Section 14112
  All voting equipment shall be transferred to the polling places in charge of an authorized official, who shall certify to their delivery in good order.
• California Elections Code Section 14113
  Ballots and other election supplies appropriate to the system shall be furnished as provided for other precincts except that: (a) No rubber stamps or ink...
• California Elections Code Section 14200
  A member of each precinct board shall cause the following voting information to be publicly posted at each polling place on the day of each...
• California Elections Code Section 14201
  (a) (1) The precinct board shall post, in a conspicuous location in the polling place, at least one facsimile copy of the ballot with the...
• California Elections Code Section 14202
  (a) Before opening the polls, the precinct board shall post in separate, convenient places at or near the polling place, and of easy access to...
• California Elections Code Section 14203
  The precinct officer shall post the signs required by Section 14106 in plain view within each voting booth or compartment whenever an election has been...
• California Elections Code Section 14210
  The members of each precinct board shall distribute the duties devolving upon the precinct board, which are in addition to their individual duties, in a...
• California Elections Code Section 14211
  The polling places shall be arranged so that neither the ballot containers nor the voting booths or compartments shall be hidden from the view of...
• California Elections Code Section 14212
  The polls shall be open at 7 a.m. of the day of any election, and shall be kept open until 8 p.m. of the same...
• California Elections Code Section 14213
  Before the precinct board receives any ballots, it shall proclaim aloud at the place of election that the polls are open.
• California Elections Code Section 14214
  Voting shall commence as soon as the polls are opened and shall be continued during the time the polls remain open.
• California Elections Code Section 14215
  Before receiving any ballots, the precinct board, in the presence of any persons assembled at the polling place, shall open and exhibit and close the...
• California Elections Code Section 14216
  Any person desiring to vote shall announce his or her name and address in an audible tone of voice, and when one of the precinct...
• California Elections Code Section 14217
  If the precinct board is unable to find a voter's name upon the index of registration, it shall inform the voter that he or she...
• California Elections Code Section 14218
  If the surname of any person offering to vote has been changed since the person has registered, the person shall sign his or her name...
• California Elections Code Section 14219
  The precinct board shall provide, upon request, to any voter for use in the voting booth or compartment, a copy of the facsimile ballot containing...
• California Elections Code Section 14220
  At any election, a majority of the members of any precinct board shall be present at the polling place at all times while the polling...
• California Elections Code Section 14221
  Only voters engaged in receiving, preparing, or depositing their ballots and persons authorized by the precinct board to keep order and enforce the law may...
• California Elections Code Section 14222
  Nothing contained in this code shall prevent a voter from being accompanied by a child or children under the age of 18 years while the...
• California Elections Code Section 14223
  (a) Only members of the precinct board, and persons while signing their names on the roster, shall be permitted, during the hours within which voting...
• California Elections Code Section 14224
  (a) Except as provided in Section 14222, a voting booth or compartment shall not be occupied by more than one person at a time, unless...
• California Elections Code Section 14225
  Members of the precinct board shall not deposit in the ballot container any ballot from which the slip containing the number of the ballot has...
• California Elections Code Section 14227
  Any member of the precinct board, when using a language other than English at the polls, shall communicate with voters in that language only as...
• California Elections Code Section 14240
  (a) A person offering to vote may be orally challenged within the polling place only by a member of the precinct board upon any or...
• California Elections Code Section 14241
  A piece of mailed matter returned undelivered by the post office shall not be accepted or used as evidence upon which to initiate a challenge...
• California Elections Code Section 14242
  The ground for challenge set forth in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 14240 shall not apply to any person duly registered as a...
• California Elections Code Section 14243
  If the challenge is on the ground that the person seeking to vote is not the person whose name appears on the index, a member...
• California Elections Code Section 14244
  If the challenge is on the ground that the person seeking to vote is not a resident of the precinct, the person challenged shall be...
• California Elections Code Section 14245
  If the challenge is on the ground that the person challenged has already cast a ballot for this election, a member of the precinct board...
• California Elections Code Section 14246
  If the challenge is on the ground either that the person challenged is not the person whose name appears on the index, or that he...
• California Elections Code Section 14247
  Challenges of voters that they are not residents of the precinct or citizens of the United States shall be tried and determined by the precinct...
• California Elections Code Section 14248
  Before administering an oath to a person regarding his or her place of residence, a member of the precinct board shall read to the person...
• California Elections Code Section 14249
  If any person challenged refuses to take the oaths tendered, or refuses to be sworn and to answer the questions concerning the matter of residence,...
• California Elections Code Section 14250
  The precinct board, in determining the place of residence of any person, shall be governed by the rules set forth in Article 2 (commencing with...
• California Elections Code Section 14251
  Any doubt in the interpretation of the law shall be resolved in favor of the challenged voter.
• California Elections Code Section 14252
  The precinct board shall compile a list showing all of the following: (a) The name and address of each person challenged. (b) The name, address,...
• California Elections Code Section 14253
  In the event that the precinct board determines that persistent challenging of voters is resulting in a delay of voting sufficient to cause voters to...
• California Elections Code Section 14270
  The procedure at the polls where voting is conducted pursuant to this division shall be the same as at other polling places, except as provided...
• California Elections Code Section 14271
  After the opening of the polls, the precinct board shall not allow any voter to enter the voting booth until it ascertains that he or...
• California Elections Code Section 14272
  Before each voter enters the voting booth, the precinct board shall inform him or her how to operate the voting device. If a marking or...
• California Elections Code Section 14273
  The device for marking the ballot may be handed to the voter with his or her ballot before the voter goes into the voting booth,...
• California Elections Code Section 14274
  In any election where ballots are to be counted both manually and by electromechanical tabulating devices, the marking device used for marking ballots to be...
• California Elections Code Section 14275
  Before leaving the voting booth or compartment, the voter shall fold or place the ballot card in the envelope so that the ballot markings of...
• California Elections Code Section 14276
  After his or her ballot is marked, a voter shall not show it to any person in such a way as to reveal its contents.
• California Elections Code Section 14277
  The voter shall hand the folded ballot or the envelope containing the ballot to a precinct board member, who shall remove the ballot stub, hand...
• California Elections Code Section 14278
  The precinct board shall give each voter only one ballot, as provided in Section 13102.
• California Elections Code Section 14279
  Unless otherwise provided by law, no person shall apply for or receive any ballot at any precinct other than that in which the voter is...
• California Elections Code Section 14280
  Unless otherwise provided by law, a voter shall not receive a ballot from any person other than one of the precinct officers. No person other...
• California Elections Code Section 14281
  On receiving a ballot, the voter shall forthwith retire alone to one of the booths or compartments provided, and mark the ballot, unless Section 14222...
• California Elections Code Section 14282
  (a) When a voter declares under oath, administered by any member of the precinct board at the time the voter appears at the polling place...
• California Elections Code Section 14283
  The precinct officers shall keep a list of the voters who have been assisted in marking their ballots. The list of assisted voters shall be...
• California Elections Code Section 14284
  (a) All ballots, except vote by mail voter ballots, shall be marked only with the marking device provided by law. (b) To prevent voters from...
• California Elections Code Section 14285
  Where two or more candidates for the same office are to be elected, and the voter desires to vote for candidates for that office, the...
• California Elections Code Section 14286
  When a measure is submitted to the voters, the voter shall place a mark on the ballot in the appropriate space opposite the answer the...
• California Elections Code Section 14287
  No voter shall place personal information upon a ballot that identifies the voter. "Personal information" includes all of the following: (a) The signature of the...
• California Elections Code Section 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...
• California Elections Code Section 14290
  The precinct board shall immediately cancel, without unfolding them, all the spoiled ballots returned. The board shall write the word "spoiled" on the back of...
• California Elections Code Section 14291
  After the ballot is marked, a voter shall not show it to any person in such a way as to reveal its contents.
• California Elections Code Section 14292
  Before leaving the voting booth or compartment, the voter shall fold the ballot according to the instructions on it, so that the marks on its...
• California Elections Code Section 14293
  Having folded the ballot, the voter shall deliver it folded to a member of the precinct board, who shall then separate the slip containing the...
• California Elections Code Section 14294
  At all elections, a member of the precinct board shall mark, on one of the copies of the index posted at or near the polling...
• California Elections Code Section 14295
  No voter shall deliver to any member of the precinct board any ballot other than the one received from the board member.
• California Elections Code Section 14296
  Any voter who does not vote the ballot he or she has received, shall, before leaving the polling place, return it to the board member...
• California Elections Code Section 14297
  No later than the time at which the voter delivers the voted ballot, a precinct board member in charge of the index shall write in...
• California Elections Code Section 14298
  (a) The precinct board shall maintain the copies of the index posted during the whole time of voting. These copies shall not be marked in...
• California Elections Code Section 14299
  (a) If a precinct board is unable to furnish a ballot to a qualified voter because there is an insufficient number of ballots at the...
• California Elections Code Section 14300
  (a) In the case of an election for a state or federal office, each polling place using a direct recording electronic voting system, as defined...
• California Elections Code Section 14310
  (a) At all elections, a voter claiming to be properly registered but whose qualification or entitlement to vote cannot be immediately established upon examination of...
• California Elections Code Section 14311
  (a) A voter who has moved from one address to another within the same county and who has not reregistered to vote at that new...
• California Elections Code Section 14312
  This article shall be liberally construed in favor of the provisional voter.
• California Elections Code Section 14313
  (a) Upon the declaration of a state of emergency by the Governor and the issuance of an executive order authorizing an emergency worker to cast...
• California Elections Code Section 14400
  At any election, all members of the precinct board shall be present at the closing of the polls.
• California Elections Code Section 14401
  When the polls are closed, the precinct board shall proclaim that fact aloud at the place of election. After the proclamation no ballot shall be...
• California Elections Code Section 14402
  Any one who arrives at the polling place after the time provided for closing the polls shall not be entitled to vote, even though the...
• California Elections Code Section 14402.5
  If the time for closing the polls is extended pursuant to a court order, all votes cast during the time that the closing of the...
• California Elections Code Section 14403
  Immediately upon the closing of the polls and before any voted ballot is taken from any of the ballot containers, the precinct board member shall,...
• California Elections Code Section 14404
  Immediately upon the arrival of the hour when the polls are required by law to be closed on election day, the elections official conducting the...
• California Elections Code Section 14405
  (a) The members of the precinct board shall account for the ballots delivered to them by returning a sufficient number of unused ballots to make...
• California Elections Code Section 14420
  (a) As soon as the polls are closed, the precinct board shall remove the voted ballots from the ballot container and take them out of...
• California Elections Code Section 14421
  The precinct board shall group voted ballot cards and voted separate write-in ballots, as directed by the elections official, and place them in containers. The...
• California Elections Code Section 14430
  The precinct board, as soon after the polls are closed as possible, shall prepare the supplies, including the copies of the index posted at or...
• California Elections Code Section 14431
  The precinct board shall enclose and seal in one or more packages, as determined by the elections official, all voted, spoiled, canceled, or unused ballots.
• California Elections Code Section 14432
  The precinct board shall enclose and seal in one or two packages, as determined by the elections official, all of the following: (a) Two tally...
• California Elections Code Section 14433
  If ballots are counted at precincts pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 15340) or Article 5 (commencing with Section 15360) of Chapter 4 of...
• California Elections Code Section 14434
  The sealed packages containing the lists, papers, and ballots shall be delivered by two of its members without delay, unopened, to the elections official or...
• California Elections Code Section 14435
  No list, tally, paper, or certificate returned from any election shall be set aside or rejected for want of form, nor because it is not...
• California Elections Code Section 14440
  Before any election, the governing body of the jurisdiction holding the election shall decide that certain offices or measures to be voted on are of...
• California Elections Code Section 14441
  The elections official shall prepare and forward to each selected precinct forms containing a list of the offices and measures designated as being of more...
• California Elections Code Section 14442
  Upon receipt from the precincts of the reports of votes cast on the specially designated offices and measures, the elections official shall tabulate the results...
• California Elections Code Section 14443
  If ballots are counted by means of electronic, electromechanical, or punchcard device, the elections official may provide for early tabulation and announcement of the returns...
• California Elections Code Section 15000
  No later than seven days prior to any election conducted pursuant to this code, the elections official shall conduct a test or series of tests...
• California Elections Code Section 15001
  (a) A copy of each election computer vote count program for a statewide election or state special election to fill vacancies shall be deposited with...
• California Elections Code Section 15002
  No later than January 1 of each even-numbered year, the Secretary of State shall review, and if necessary amend, administrative procedures for use with each...
• California Elections Code Section 15003
  Elections officials shall adopt semifinal official and official canvass procedures to conform to the applicable voting system procedures that have been approved by the Secretary...
• California Elections Code Section 15004
  (a) Each qualified political party may employ, and may have present at the central counting place or places, not more than two representatives to check...
• California Elections Code Section 15100
  The provisions of this chapter apply to the processing of vote by mail ballots during the 29-day period before any election, during the semifinal official...
• California Elections Code Section 15101
  (a) Any jurisdiction in which vote by mail ballots are cast may begin to process vote by mail ballot return envelopes beginning 29 days before...
• California Elections Code Section 15102
  The official shall appoint a special counting board or boards in numbers that he or she deems adequate to count the vote by mail ballots....
• California Elections Code Section 15103
  The elections official shall pay a reasonable compensation to each member of the canvassing board of vote by mail ballots. This compensation shall be paid...
• California Elections Code Section 15104
  (a) The processing of vote by mail ballot return envelopes, and the processing and counting of vote by mail ballots, shall be open to the...
• California Elections Code Section 15105
  Prior to processing and opening the identification envelopes of vote by mail voters, the elections official shall make available a list of vote by mail...
• California Elections Code Section 15106
  Except as otherwise provided, the processing of vote by mail ballot return envelopes, the processing and counting of vote by mail ballots, and the disposition...
• California Elections Code Section 15107
  If a challenge is overruled, the board shall open the identification envelope without defacing the affidavit printed on it or mutilating the enclosed ballot and,...
• California Elections Code Section 15108
  If a challenge is allowed, the board shall endorse on the face of the identification envelope the cause of the challenge and its action thereon.
• California Elections Code Section 15109
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the counting and canvassing of vote by mail ballots shall be conducted in the same manner and under...
• California Elections Code Section 15110
  Reports to the Secretary of State of the findings of the canvass of vote by mail ballots shall be made by the elections official pursuant...
• California Elections Code Section 15111
  The elections official shall keep an accurate list of all voters who have received and voted a vote by mail ballot at each election and...
• California Elections Code Section 15112
  When elections are consolidated pursuant to Division 10 (commencing with Section 10000), and only one form of ballot is used at the consolidated election, the...
• California Elections Code Section 15150
  For every election, the elections official shall conduct a semifinal official canvass by tabulating vote by mail and precinct ballots and compiling the results. The...
• California Elections Code Section 15151
  (a) The elections official shall transmit the semifinal official results to the Secretary of State in the manner and according to the schedule prescribed by...
• California Elections Code Section 15152
  Neither the elections official, any member of a precinct board, nor any other person shall count any votes, either for a ballot proposition or candidate,...
• California Elections Code Section 15153
  During the semifinal official canvass, write-in votes shall be counted in accordance with Article 3 (commencing with Section 15340) of Chapter 4.
• California Elections Code Section 15154
  (a) Any ballot that is not marked as provided by law shall be rejected. The rejected ballots shall be placed in the package marked for...
• California Elections Code Section 15200
  If paper ballots are used in conjunction with this system, counting shall be as provided in Article 5 (commencing with Section 15270) and Article 6...
• California Elections Code Section 15201
  (a) As soon as the polls are closed, the precinct board shall, in the presence of the public do all of the following: (1) Seal...
• California Elections Code Section 15202
  If the ballots are to be counted at a central counting place, no fewer than two precinct board members shall, following the close of the...
• California Elections Code Section 15203
  The vote tabulating device may be located at any place within the state approved by the elections official of the county or other political subdivision...
• California Elections Code Section 15204
  All proceedings at the central counting place, or counting places, if applicable, shall be open to the view of the public but no person, except...
• California Elections Code Section 15205
  (a) A person may be employed to count, tally, and certify the ballots if he or she is not a candidate at the election and...
• California Elections Code Section 15206
  The elections official or any deputy authorized by the elections official may excuse or dismiss any person from any counting board and enforce the order.
• California Elections Code Section 15207
  The elections official or authorized deputy shall segregate the persons employed to count the ballots into counting boards. These counting boards shall be deemed to...
• California Elections Code Section 15208
  (a) Each container of ballots shall be opened and its contents removed. The ballots shall be checked to ascertain if the ballots are properly grouped...
• California Elections Code Section 15209
  Any magnetic or electronic storage medium used for the ballot tabulation program and any magnetic or electronic storage medium containing election results shall be kept...
• California Elections Code Section 15210
  In preparing the voted ballots for processing, any ballot that is torn, bent, or otherwise defective shall be corrected so that every vote cast by...
• California Elections Code Section 15211
  If paper ballots are used for vote by mail voting, the canvass may be conducted in accordance with Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 15000), or...
• California Elections Code Section 15212
  If voting at all precincts within a county is not conducted using the same voting system, the result as to the precincts not subject to...
• California Elections Code Section 15213
  In case of an emergency in which it becomes impossible to transport the ballots from the precinct to a central counting place, the elections official...
• California Elections Code Section 15250
  The ballots may be counted at the polls if a counting or tabulating machine approved therefor pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 19200) of...
• California Elections Code Section 15251
  Upon receipt of the result of votes cast from the precinct boards, the elections official shall compile and make available to the public the results...
• California Elections Code Section 15260
  (a) The elections official of the jurisdiction shall establish one or more election return centers for the purpose of facilitating the compilation of election returns...
• California Elections Code Section 15261
  The elections official may establish one or more centers to count ballots from designated precincts and transmit the results via voice telephone connection or facsimile...
• California Elections Code Section 15270
  This article applies to all elections in which ballots are counted by hand.
• California Elections Code Section 15271
  As soon as the polls are finally closed, the precinct board shall commence to count the votes by taking the ballots cast, unopened, out of...
• California Elections Code Section 15272
  The count shall be public and shall be continued without adjournment until completed and the result is declared. During the reading and tallying, the ballot...
• California Elections Code Section 15273
  Unless otherwise provided in this code, the precinct board members may not constitute themselves into separate squads in an attempt to conduct more than one...
• California Elections Code Section 15274
  The members of the precinct board may relieve each other in the duties of counting ballots.
• California Elections Code Section 15275
  Those ballots not rejected shall be placed in one pile, and the board shall proceed to count by tallying the vote for one or more...
• California Elections Code Section 15276
  The precinct board members shall ascertain the number of votes cast for each person and for and against each measure in the following manner: One...
• California Elections Code Section 15277
  (a) Two of the precinct board members shall each keep a tally sheet in a form prescribed by the elections official. Each tally sheet shall...
• California Elections Code Section 15278
  On completion of the canvass of the returns for each election, the elections official shall compare the vote by mail voters' list with the roster...
• California Elections Code Section 15278.5
  No precinct board member may make any tally of votes in any other manner than is provided in this article, nor in any place other...
• California Elections Code Section 15279
  The ballots, as soon as all of the names and measures marked on them as voted for are read and tallied, shall not thereafter be...
• California Elections Code Section 15280
  The precinct board shall complete, sign, and return to the elections official all furnished forms requiring its signatures. When votes are counted at the precinct,...
• California Elections Code Section 15281
  The precinct board shall sign and post conspicuously on the outside of the polling place a copy of the result of the votes cast. The...
• California Elections Code Section 15290
  Ballots that are to be counted manually in a central place shall be transported as provided in Sections 15201 and 15202. Each counting board shall...
• California Elections Code Section 15300
  This chapter applies to all elections.
• California Elections Code Section 15301
  The canvass shall commence no later than the Thursday following the election, shall be open to the public, and, for state or statewide elections, shall...
• California Elections Code Section 15302
  The official canvass shall include, but not be limited to, the following tasks: (a) An inspection of all materials and supplies returned by poll workers....
• California Elections Code Section 15303
  If the returns from any precinct are incomplete, ambiguous, not properly authenticated, or otherwise defective, the elections official may issue and serve subpoenas requiring members...
• California Elections Code Section 15304
  In jurisdictions using a central counting place, the elections official may appoint not less than three deputies to open the envelopes or containers with the...
• California Elections Code Section 15320
  Vote by mail ballots and mail ballot precinct ballots returned to the elections office and to the polls on election day that are not included...
• California Elections Code Section 15321
  For any statewide election or special election to fill a vacancy in a congressional or legislative office, votes cast by vote by mail ballot and...
• California Elections Code Section 15340
  Except for a voter-nominated office at a general election, each voter is entitled to write on the ballot the name of any candidate for any...
• California Elections Code Section 15341
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no name written upon a ballot in any election shall be counted for an office or nomination unless the...
• California Elections Code Section 15342
  Any name written upon a ballot for a qualified write-in candidate, including a reasonable facsimile of the spelling of a name, shall be counted for...
• California Elections Code Section 15342.5
  In the event of a manual recount conducted pursuant to Section 15610 or requested pursuant to Section 15620 or 15621, the process set forth in...
• California Elections Code Section 15350
  Provisional ballots cast pursuant to Section 14310 shall be processed and counted in accordance with the provisions outlined in Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 15100)...
• California Elections Code Section 15360
  (a) During the official canvass of every election in which a voting system is used, the official conducting the election shall conduct a public manual...
• California Elections Code Section 15370
  After ballots are counted and sealed, the elections official may not open any ballots nor permit any ballots to be opened except as permitted in...
• California Elections Code Section 15371
  Upon completion of the count, the elections official shall add to the results as so determined, the results of the write-in votes and any paper...
• California Elections Code Section 15372
  The elections official shall prepare a certified statement of the results of the election and submit it to the governing body within 28 days of...
• California Elections Code Section 15373
  When ballots are counted under this article, the result of the vote shall be shown by precinct.
• California Elections Code Section 15374
  (a) The statement of the result shall show all of the following: (1) The total number of ballots cast. (2) The number of votes cast...
• California Elections Code Section 15375
  The elections official shall send to the Secretary of State within 31 days of the election in an electronic format in the manner requested one...
• California Elections Code Section 15376
  The elections official shall deliver a duplicate of the certified statement of the result of votes cast to the chairperson of the county central committee...
• California Elections Code Section 15400
  The governing body shall declare elected or nominated to each office voted on at each election under its jurisdiction the person having the highest number...
• California Elections Code Section 15401
  The elections official shall make out and deliver to each person elected or nominated, as declared by the governing body, except those elected to a...
• California Elections Code Section 15402
  (a) Whenever a candidate whose name appears upon the ballot at any election for an office other than a voter-nominated office dies after the 68th...
• California Elections Code Section 15450
  A plurality of the votes given at any election shall constitute a choice where not otherwise directed in the California Constitution, provided that it shall...
• California Elections Code Section 15451
  The nominees for a voter-nominated office shall be determined in accordance with Section 8141.5 and subdivision (b) of Section 8142.
• California Elections Code Section 15452
  The person who receives a plurality of the votes cast for any office is elected or nominated to that office in any election, except: (a)...
• California Elections Code Section 15460
  In each county the number of candidates for membership in a county central committee in each Assembly or supervisorial district who receive the highest number...
• California Elections Code Section 15470
  In each county the number of candidates for membership in a committee in each Assembly or supervisorial district who receive the highest number of votes...
• California Elections Code Section 15480
  In each county the number of candidates for membership in a county central committee in each Assembly or supervisor district who receive the highest number...
• California Elections Code Section 15490
  In each county the number of candidates for member of central committees to be elected in each central committee election district who receive the highest...
• California Elections Code Section 15500
  The Secretary of State, commencing with the first results from the semifinal official canvass received from the elections officials, shall compile the results for the...
• California Elections Code Section 15501
  (a) Except as to presidential electors, the Secretary of State shall compile the results for all of the following: (1) All candidates for statewide office....
• California Elections Code Section 15502
  Within 120 days of the filing of the statement of the vote, the Secretary of State, upon the basis of the information provided, shall compile...
• California Elections Code Section 15503
  On the 38th day after the election, or as soon within that time as the returns have been received from the entire state or a...
• California Elections Code Section 15504
  The Secretary of State shall make out and deliver, or transmit by mail, a certificate of election or nomination to each person elected or nominated.
• California Elections Code Section 15505
  No later than the 32nd day following the election, the Secretary of State shall analyze the votes given for presidential electors, and certify to the...
• California Elections Code Section 15550
  The records and supplies of any election when received by the elections official shall be disposed of in the manner set forth in this chapter.
• California Elections Code Section 15551
  If a contest or any such criminal prosecution has been commenced prior to the date fixed for its destruction, the package containing the voted ballots...
• California Elections Code Section 15560
  (a) The Secretary of State is authorized to establish a postcanvass risk-limiting audit pilot program in five or more counties to improve the accuracy of,...
• California Elections Code Section 15600
  Except as provided in this chapter, this chapter applies to all elections. The recount of votes cast for candidates for presidential electors shall be governed...
• California Elections Code Section 15601
  The Secretary of State, within the Secretary of State's existing budget, shall adopt regulations no later than January 1, 2008, for each voting system approved...
• California Elections Code Section 15610
  If no election contest is pending wherein a recount of the ballots in a precinct has been or will be ordered, the elections official may...
• California Elections Code Section 15620
  Following completion of the official canvass and again following completion of any postcanvass risk-limiting audit conducted pursuant to Section 15560, any voter may, within five...
• California Elections Code Section 15621
  Following completion of the official canvass any voter may, within five days beginning on the 29th day after a statewide election, file with the Secretary...
• California Elections Code Section 15622
  The request may specify the order in which the precincts shall be recounted.
• California Elections Code Section 15623
  Any time during the conduct of a recount and for 24 hours thereafter, any other voter may request the recount of any precincts in an...
• California Elections Code Section 15624
  The voter filing the request seeking the recount shall, before the recount is commenced and at the beginning of each day following, deposit with the...
• California Elections Code Section 15625
  The recount shall be conducted under the supervision of the elections official by special recount boards consisting of four voters of the county appointed by...
• California Elections Code Section 15626
  The recount shall be commenced not more than seven days following the receipt by the elections official of the request for the recount under Section...
• California Elections Code Section 15627
  (a) If in the election which is to be recounted the votes were recorded by means of a punchcard voting system or by electronic or...
• California Elections Code Section 15628
  Not less than one day prior to commencement of the recount, the elections official shall post a notice as to the date and place of...
• California Elections Code Section 15629
  The recount shall be conducted publicly.
• California Elections Code Section 15630
  All ballots, whether voted or not, and any other relevant material, may be examined as part of any recount if the voter filing the declaration...
• California Elections Code Section 15631
  On recount, ballots may be challenged for incompleteness, ambiguity, or other defects, in accordance with the following procedure: (a) The person challenging the ballot shall...
• California Elections Code Section 15632
  In lieu of the returns as reported in the official canvass, upon completion of the recount showing that a different candidate was nominated or elected,...
• California Elections Code Section 15633
  A copy of the results of any recount conducted pursuant to this chapter shall be posted conspicuously in the office of the elections official.
• California Elections Code Section 15634
  This chapter does not: (a) Authorize the opening or recounting of ballots for any precinct except for the purposes specified in this chapter. (b) Limit...
• California Elections Code Section 15640
  (a) When requested by the board of supervisors or the grand jury, the district attorney may petition the superior court for an order directing a...
• California Elections Code Section 15641
  Section 15001 shall apply unless a court orders the program held pending the conclusion of litigation challenging the outcome of an election. If court action...
• California Elections Code Section 15642
  Any tape, diskette, cartridge, or other magnetic or electronic storage medium used in the programming of vote totals shall be kept in a secure location...
• California Elections Code Section 15650
  This article does not apply to any primary election.
• California Elections Code Section 15651
  (a) If at any election, except as provided in subdivision (b) and an election for Governor or Lieutenant Governor, two or more persons receive an...
• California Elections Code Section 15652
  If the tie vote has been determined pursuant to Section 15651, the person declared elected by the Secretary of State or the election board is...
• California Elections Code Section 15653
  When two or more persons have an equal and highest number of votes for either Governor or Lieutenant Governor, the Secretary of State shall deliver...
• California Elections Code Section 15654
  In case any two or more persons have an equal and highest number of votes for either Governor or Lieutenant Governor, the Legislature shall, by...
• California Elections Code Section 15670
  This article applies only to: (a) Candidates for delegates to a national convention for the nomination of party candidates for President and Vice President of...
• California Elections Code Section 15671
  In case of a tie vote for member of a county central committee, where the office is to be voted for wholly within one county,...
• California Elections Code Section 15672
  In the case of a tie vote for an office other than a judicial or school office to be voted on in more than one...
• California Elections Code Section 15673
  The summons mentioned in this article shall in every case be mailed to the address of the candidate as it appears upon his or her...
• California Elections Code Section 15700
  It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this chapter to provide guidance in interpreting Section 2.5 of Article II of the California Constitution.
• California Elections Code Section 15701
  If a postelection deadline imposed by this code prevents the proper tabulation or recounting of ballots, the county elections official of the affected county may...
• California Elections Code Section 15702
  For purposes of Section 2.5 of Article II of the California Constitution, "vote" includes all action necessary to make a vote effective in any primary,...
• California Elections Code Section 16000
  The general election contest provisions of this division, exclusive of Article 1 (commencing with Section 16700) of Chapter 8, Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 16800),...
• California Elections Code Section 16002
  When used in this division, "contestant" means any person initiating an election contest. "Defendant" means that person whose election or nomination is contested or those...
• California Elections Code Section 16003
  In a contest of the election of presidential electors the action or appeal shall have priority over all other civil matters. Final determination and judgment...
• California Elections Code Section 16100
  Any elector of a county, city, or of any political subdivision of either may contest any election held therein, for any of the following causes:...
• California Elections Code Section 16101
  Any candidate at a primary election may contest the right of another candidate to nomination to the same office by filing an affidavit alleging any...
• California Elections Code Section 16200
  This chapter shall not apply to elections for the office of state Senator or Member of the Assembly of the California Legislature.
• California Elections Code Section 16201
  No irregularity or improper conduct in the proceedings of the precinct board members, or any of them, is malconduct that avoids an election, unless the...
• California Elections Code Section 16202
  When any election held for an office exercised in and for a county is contested on account of any malconduct on the part of the...
• California Elections Code Section 16203
  An election shall not be set aside on account of illegal votes, unless it appears that a number of illegal votes has been given to...
• California Elections Code Section 16204
  An election shall not be set aside on account of eligible voters being denied the right to vote, unless it appears that a sufficient number...
• California Elections Code Section 16300
  Irregularity or improper conduct shall annul or set aside a nomination only if it appears that illegal votes in the precinct have been given to...
• California Elections Code Section 16400
  When an elector contests any election he or she shall file with the clerk of the superior court having jurisdiction a written statement setting forth...
• California Elections Code Section 16401
  The contestant shall verify the statement of contest, as provided by Section 446 of the Code of Civil Procedure, and shall file it within the...
• California Elections Code Section 16402
  When the reception of illegal votes is alleged as a cause of contest, it is sufficient to state generally that in one or more specified...
• California Elections Code Section 16402.5
  An election shall not be set aside on account of eligible voters being denied the right to vote, unless it appears that a sufficient number...
• California Elections Code Section 16403
  A statement of the grounds of contest shall not be rejected nor the proceedings dismissed by any court for want of form, if the grounds...
• California Elections Code Section 16404
  The affidavit shall specify separately each precinct in which any irregularity or improper conduct took place, or in which a recount is demanded, and the...
• California Elections Code Section 16420
  The defendant shall be named in the affidavit.
• California Elections Code Section 16421
  The affidavit shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the superior court having jurisdiction within five days after either the completion of...
• California Elections Code Section 16440
  This article applies only to contests on the grounds that: (a) The defendant is not eligible to the office in dispute. (b) The defendant has...
• California Elections Code Section 16441
  If the nomination contested is for an office including a political subdivision of more than one county, the superior court of any county within the...
• California Elections Code Section 16442
  After the affidavit is filed with the clerk of the superior court, a copy of the affidavit shall be personally served upon the defendant or...
• California Elections Code Section 16443
  The defendant, after receipt of the copy of the affidavit, may file an answer and a cross-contest affidavit within five days.
• California Elections Code Section 16444
  No special appearance, demurrer or objection may be taken other than by the affidavits which shall be considered a general appearance in the contest.
• California Elections Code Section 16460
  This article applies only to contests on the ground that due to mistake, error, or misconduct the votes in any precinct were so incorrectly counted...
• California Elections Code Section 16461
  The superior court of that county in which is located the precinct in which the contestant demands a recount has jurisdiction.
• California Elections Code Section 16462
  No service other than as provided in this section need be made upon the defendant. The affidavit shall be filed in the office of the...
• California Elections Code Section 16463
  All candidates at any primary election are permitted to be candidates under this code only upon the condition that jurisdiction for the purposes of the...
• California Elections Code Section 16464
  At any time within three days after the filing of the affidavit of the contestant to the effect that he or she has sent by...
• California Elections Code Section 16465
  The defendant shall appear, either in person or by attorney, at the time and place fixed for the hearing, and shall take notice of the...
• California Elections Code Section 16466
  The defendant may not make any special appearance for any purpose except as provided in this article. Any appearance whatever of the defendant or any...
• California Elections Code Section 16467
  The court, if the defendant appears, shall require the answer to be made within three days from the time and place set for hearing. If...
• California Elections Code Section 16500
  Within five days after the end of the time allowed for filing statements of contest, the clerk of the superior court shall notify the superior...
• California Elections Code Section 16501
  The clerk of the superior court shall thereupon issue a citation for the defendant to appear at the time and place specified in the order,...
• California Elections Code Section 16502
  The clerk of the superior court shall issue subpoenas for witnesses at the request of any party, which shall be served as other subpoenas. The...
• California Elections Code Section 16503
  The contestant shall, in the first instance, be liable for the expenses involved in making any recount. He or she shall pay into court in...
• California Elections Code Section 16520
  The clerk of the superior court, within five days after the end of the time for filing affidavits, shall present all the affidavits to the...
• California Elections Code Section 16521
  The clerk of the superior court, after an order setting a contest for trial, shall issue a citation to both parties containing a copy of...
• California Elections Code Section 16540
  On the fifth day after the end of the time for filing contestant's affidavit, the clerk of the superior court shall present the affidavits of...
• California Elections Code Section 16600
  The court shall meet at the time and place designated, to determine the contested election, and shall have all the powers necessary to the determination...
• California Elections Code Section 16601
  At the trial the ballots shall be opened and a recount taken, in the presence of all the parties, of the votes cast for the...
• California Elections Code Section 16602
  In the trial and determination of election contests, the court shall be governed by the rules of law and evidence governing the determination of questions...
• California Elections Code Section 16603
  The court shall continue in session to hear and determine all issues arising in contested elections. After hearing the proofs and allegations of the parties...
• California Elections Code Section 16620
  The court shall meet at the time and place designated in the order setting the contest for trial, and shall have all powers necessary to...
• California Elections Code Section 16640
  If the number of votes that are sought to be recounted or the number of contests are such that the judge in a county in...
• California Elections Code Section 16641
  If the proceeding is in a county where there is more than one superior court judge, the judge to whom the case is assigned shall...
• California Elections Code Section 16642
  The judges designated by the order to hear the contest, including the judge to whom the contest was originally assigned, shall convene upon notice from...
• California Elections Code Section 16643
  The proceedings before every judge in making a recount of the precincts assigned to him or her, as to the appointment of the elections official...
• California Elections Code Section 16700
  The person declared elected by the superior court is entitled to a certificate of election. If a certificate has not already been issued to him...
• California Elections Code Section 16701
  If the elections official has issued any certificate for the same office to any other person than the one declared elected by the court, or...
• California Elections Code Section 16702
  Whenever an election is annulled or set aside by the judgment of the superior court, and no appeal has been taken within 10 days thereafter,...
• California Elections Code Section 16703
  If in any election contest it appears that another person than the defendant has the highest number of legal votes, the court shall declare that...
• California Elections Code Section 16720
  After the court has heard the proofs and allegations of the parties, it shall file its findings of fact and conclusions of law and immediately...
• California Elections Code Section 16740
  When the recount has been completed in the manner required by Article 4 (commencing with Section 16460) of Chapter 5, and Article 3 (commencing with...
• California Elections Code Section 16741
  A certified copy of the judgment shall be served upon the elections official and may be enforced summarily in the same manner as provided in...
• California Elections Code Section 16742
  If the contest proceeds in more than one county, and the nominee is to be certified by the Secretary of State from the compilation of...
• California Elections Code Section 16800
  If the proceedings in a general election contest under this division are dismissed for insufficiency or for want of prosecution, or the election is confirmed...
• California Elections Code Section 16801
  Where two or more contested elections are joined for the purpose of recounting votes, the costs shall be apportioned among the parties in the discretion...
• California Elections Code Section 16802
  Primarily each party is liable for the costs created by himself or herself to the officers and witnesses entitled thereto, which costs may be collected...
• California Elections Code Section 16803
  The provisions relating to costs in contested final elections apply to primary election contests conducted under this division.
• California Elections Code Section 16900
  Any party aggrieved by the judgment of the court may appeal therefrom to the court of appeal, as in other cases of appeal thereto from...
• California Elections Code Section 16920
  Either party to a contest may appeal to the district court of appeal of the district where the contest is brought, if the appeal is...
• California Elections Code Section 16940
  The judgment of the court is final in every respect. No party may appeal.
• California Elections Code Section 17000
  (a) The elections official shall preserve all canceled original affidavits of registration for a period of five years, after which they may be destroyed by...
• California Elections Code Section 17001
  The elections official shall keep a copy of the index to the affidavits of registration described in Section 2180 on file as a public record...
• California Elections Code Section 17100
  (a) All nomination documents and signatures in lieu of filing fee petitions filed in accordance with this code shall be held by the officer with...
• California Elections Code Section 17200
  (a) Elections officials required by law to receive or file in their offices any initiative or referendum petition shall preserve the petition until eight months...
• California Elections Code Section 17300
  (a) The elections official shall preserve all rosters of voters or combined rosters and indexes as provided for in Section 14109, if applicable, until five...
• California Elections Code Section 17301
  (a) The following provisions shall apply to those elections where candidates for one or more of the following offices are voted upon: President, Vice President,...
• California Elections Code Section 17302
  (a) The following provisions shall apply to all state or local elections not provided for in subdivision (a) of Section 17301. An election is not...
• California Elections Code Section 17303
  (a) The following provisions shall apply to those elections where candidates for one or more of the following offices are voted upon: President, Vice President,...
• California Elections Code Section 17304
  (a) The following provisions shall apply to all state or local elections not provided for in subdivision (a) of Section 17303. An election is not...
• California Elections Code Section 17305
  (a) The following provisions shall apply to those elections where candidates for one or more of the following offices are voted upon: President, Vice President,...
• California Elections Code Section 17306
  (a) The following provisions shall apply to all state or local elections not provided for in subdivision (a) of Section 17305. An election is not...
• California Elections Code Section 17400
  (a) The elections official or, in the case of the recall of a state officer, the Secretary of State, shall preserve in his or her...
• California Elections Code Section 17501
  Following each general election, the county elections official shall file copies of all precinct maps with the Secretary of State. If there is no change...
• California Elections Code Section 17502
  (a) The following provisions shall apply to those elections where candidates for one or more of the following offices are voted upon: President, Vice President,...
• California Elections Code Section 17503
  (a) The following provisions shall apply to all state or local elections not provided for in subdivision (a) of Section 17502. An election is not...
• California Elections Code Section 17504
  (a) The following provisions apply to those elections where candidates for one or more of the following offices are voted upon: President of the United...
• California Elections Code Section 17505
  (a) The following provisions apply to all state or local elections not provided for in subdivision (a) of Section 17504. An election is not deemed...
• California Elections Code Section 17506
  The elections official shall preserve the list of new resident voters voting pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 3400) of Division 3 for 22...
• California Elections Code Section 18000
  This division applies to all elections.
• California Elections Code Section 18001
  Upon a conviction for any crime punishable by imprisonment in any jail or prison, in relation to which no fine is herein prescribed, the court...
• California Elections Code Section 18002
  Every person charged with the performance of any duty under any law of this state relating to elections, who willfully neglects or refuses to perform...
• California Elections Code Section 18100
  (a) Every person who willfully causes, procures, or allows himself or herself or any other person to be registered as a voter, knowing that he...
• California Elections Code Section 18101
  Every person who knowingly and willfully completes, or causes or procures the completion of, in whole or in part, an affidavit of registration or a...
• California Elections Code Section 18102
  Any deputy elections official or registration elections official who knowingly registers a nonexistent person, knowingly registers a person under a false name or address, or...
• California Elections Code Section 18103
  Any person who knowingly or negligently (a) interferes with the prompt transfer of a completed affidavit of registration to the county elections official, (b) retains...
• California Elections Code Section 18104
  Any deputy registrar of voters having charge of affidavits of registration is guilty of a misdemeanor who knowingly neglects or refuses to return affidavits of...
• California Elections Code Section 18105
  No affidavit of registration or voter registration card shall contain, and no person other than the registrant shall write on or affix thereto, or cause...
• California Elections Code Section 18106
  Every person is punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code for 16 months or two or three years,...
• California Elections Code Section 18107
  Every person who willfully violates Section 2158 is guilty of an infraction, punishable by a fine not to exceed two hundred dollars ($200).
• California Elections Code Section 18107.5
  Every person who willfully violates subdivision (c) of Section 3008 is guilty of an infraction, punishable by a fine not to exceed two hundred dollars...
• California Elections Code Section 18108
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), any person who receives money or other valuable consideration to assist another to register to vote by receiving...
• California Elections Code Section 18108.1
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), any person who receives money or other valuable consideration to assist another to register to vote by receiving...
• California Elections Code Section 18108.5
  (a) Any person, company, or other organization that agrees to pay money or other valuable consideration, whether on a per-affidavit basis or otherwise, to any...
• California Elections Code Section 18109
  (a) It is a misdemeanor for any person in possession of information obtained pursuant to Article 5 (commencing with Section 2180) of Chapter 2 of...
• California Elections Code Section 18110
  (a) For purposes of this section, "home address" means only street address and does not include an individual's city or post office address. (b) Any...
• California Elections Code Section 18111
  Any person, individual, or organization that knowingly violates Section 2138.5 is guilty of an infraction, punishable by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars...
• California Elections Code Section 18112
  Upon conviction of a violation of any provision of this chapter, the court may order as a condition of probation that the convicted person be...
• California Elections Code Section 18200
  Every person who subscribes to any nomination petition a fictitious name, or who intentionally subscribes thereto the name of another, or who causes another to...
• California Elections Code Section 18201
  Any person who falsely makes or fraudulently defaces or destroys all or any part of a nomination paper, is punishable by a fine not exceeding...
• California Elections Code Section 18202
  Every person acting on behalf of a candidate is guilty of a misdemeanor who deliberately fails to file at the proper time and in the...
• California Elections Code Section 18203
  Any person who files or submits for filing a nomination paper or declaration of candidacy knowing that it or any part of it has been...
• California Elections Code Section 18204
  Any person who willfully suppresses all or any part of a nomination paper or declaration of candidacy either before or after filing is punishable by...
• California Elections Code Section 18205
  A person shall not directly or through any other person advance, pay, solicit, or receive or cause to be advanced, paid, solicited, or received, any...
• California Elections Code Section 18301
  In addition to any other penalty, any person who prints or otherwise duplicates, or causes to be printed or duplicated, a simulated ballot or simulated...
• California Elections Code Section 18302
  Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor who knowingly causes to be mailed or distributed, or knowingly mails or distributes, literature to any voter that...
• California Elections Code Section 18303
  Every person who violates Section 84305 of the Government Code relating to mass mailing is subject to the penal provisions set forth in Chapter 11...
• California Elections Code Section 18304
  (a) Any person who uses or allows to be used any reproduction or facsimile of the seal of the county or the seal of a...
• California Elections Code Section 18310
  A person shall not directly or through any other person pay or receive any money or other valuable consideration before, during, or after an election...
• California Elections Code Section 18311
  Every person is punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code for 16 months or two or three years...
• California Elections Code Section 18320
  (a) This act shall be known and may be cited as the "California Political Cyberfraud Abatement Act." (b) It is unlawful for a person, with...
• California Elections Code Section 18321
  This article does not apply to a domain name registrar, registry, or registration authority.
• California Elections Code Section 18322
  In addition to any other remedies available under law, a court may order the transfer of a domain name as part of the relief awarded...
• California Elections Code Section 18323
  Jurisdiction for actions brought pursuant to this article shall be in accordance with Section 410.10 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
• California Elections Code Section 18340
  Every person who, by threats, intimidations, or unlawful violence, willfully hinders or prevents electors from assembling in public meetings for the consideration of public questions...
• California Elections Code Section 18350
  Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor who, with intent to mislead the voters in connection with his or her campaign for nomination or election...
• California Elections Code Section 18351
  Any candidate in an election or incumbent in a recall election who knowingly makes a false statement of a material fact in a candidate's statement,...
• California Elections Code Section 18360
  Any person who violates Section 20201 is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• California Elections Code Section 18361
  Upon the complaint of the affected candidate or committee, any person who violates Section 20202 or 20203 is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• California Elections Code Section 18370
  No person, on election day, or at any time that a voter may be casting a ballot, shall, within 100 feet of a polling place,...
• California Elections Code Section 18371
  (a) No candidate or representative of a candidate, and no proponent, opponent, or representative of a proponent or opponent, of an initiative, referendum, or recall...
• California Elections Code Section 18380
  (a) No person, during any election, shall do any of the following: (1) Remove or destroy any of the supplies or other conveniences placed in...
• California Elections Code Section 18390
  No agency or department of the state may use its publications to advise state employees of any constitutional officer' s choice of candidates for public...
• California Elections Code Section 18400
  A person who makes, uses, keeps, or furnishes to others, paper or cards watermarked or overprinted in imitation of ballot paper or ballot cards is...
• California Elections Code Section 18401
  Every person who prints any ballot not in conformity with Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 13100) of Division 13, or who circulates or gives to...
• California Elections Code Section 18402
  Any individual, group, or organization that knowingly distributes any application for a vote by mail ballot that does not conform to Chapter 1 (commencing with...
• California Elections Code Section 18403
  Any person other than an elections official or a member of the precinct board who receives a voted ballot from a voter or who examines...
• California Elections Code Section 18500
  Any person who commits fraud or attempts to commit fraud, and any person who aids or abets fraud or attempts to aid or abet fraud,...
• California Elections Code Section 18501
  Any public official who knowingly violates any of the provisions of this chapter, and thereby aids in any way the illegal casting or attempting to...
• California Elections Code Section 18502
  Any person who in any manner interferes with the officers holding an election or conducting a canvass, or with the voters lawfully exercising their rights...
• California Elections Code Section 18520
  A person shall not directly or through another person give, offer, or promise any office, place, or employment, or promise to procure or endeavor to...
• California Elections Code Section 18521
  A person shall not directly or through any other person receive, agree, or contract for, before, during or after an election, any money, gift, loan,...
• California Elections Code Section 18522
  Neither a person nor a controlled committee shall directly or through any other person or controlled committee pay, lend, or contribute, or offer or promise...
• California Elections Code Section 18523
  A person shall not directly or through any other person advance or pay, or cause to be paid, any money or other valuable thing to...
• California Elections Code Section 18524
  A person shall not directly or through any other person advance or pay, or cause to be paid, any money or other valuable thing to...
• California Elections Code Section 18540
  (a) Every person who makes use of or threatens to make use of any force, violence, or tactic of coercion or intimidation, to induce or...
• California Elections Code Section 18541
  (a) No person shall, with the intent of dissuading another person from voting, within 100 feet of a polling place, do any of the following:...
• California Elections Code Section 18542
  Every employer, whether a corporation or natural person, or any other person who employs, is guilty of a misdemeanor if, in paying his or her...
• California Elections Code Section 18543
  (a) Every person who knowingly challenges a person's right to vote without probable cause or on fraudulent or spurious grounds, or who engages in mass,...
• California Elections Code Section 18544
  (a) Any person in possession of a firearm or any uniformed peace officer, private guard, or security personnel or any person who is wearing a...
• California Elections Code Section 18545
  Any person who hires or arranges for any other person in possession of a firearm or any uniformed peace officer, private guard, or security personnel...
• California Elections Code Section 18546
  As used in this article: (a) "Elections official" means the county elections official, registrar of voters, or city clerk. (b) "Immediate vicinity" means the area...
• California Elections Code Section 18547
  (a) In addition to any other fine or penalty imposed by this article, the court may order any person convicted of violating this article to...
• California Elections Code Section 18548
  The Voter Intimidation Restitution Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury. Upon appropriation by the Legislature, moneys in the fund shall be allocated to...
• California Elections Code Section 18560
  Every person is guilty of a crime punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code for 16 months or...
• California Elections Code Section 18561
  Every person is punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code for 16 months or two or three years...
• California Elections Code Section 18562
  Every member of a precinct board is guilty of a misdemeanor who, prior to putting the ballot of a voter in the ballot box, commits...
• California Elections Code Section 18562.5
  (a) A member of the public is guilty of a misdemeanor if, while observing any of the following, he or she willfully engages in any...
• California Elections Code Section 18563
  Every member of a precinct board is guilty of a misdemeanor who, without the consent of a voter, discloses the name of any candidate the...
• California Elections Code Section 18564
  Any person is guilty of a felony, punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code for two, three, or...
• California Elections Code Section 18564.5
  (a) The Secretary of State, Attorney General, and any local elections official in the county in which the act occurs, may bring a civil action...
• California Elections Code Section 18565
  Any person who aids or abets in the commission of any of the offenses described in Section 18564 is punishable by imprisonment in the county...
• California Elections Code Section 18566
  Every person is punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code for two, three, or four years who: (a)...
• California Elections Code Section 18567
  Every person who willfully adds to or subtracts from the votes actually cast at an election, in any official or unofficial returns, or who alters...
• California Elections Code Section 18568
  Every person is punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the...
• California Elections Code Section 18569
  Every person who aids or abets in the commission of any of the offenses mentioned in Section 18566, 18567, or 18568 is punishable by imprisonment...
• California Elections Code Section 18570
  Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor who does any one of the following: (a) Removes or defaces any posted copy of the results of...
• California Elections Code Section 18571
  Any person acting on any counting board who refuses to obey any lawful order of the county elections official or his or her deputy is...
• California Elections Code Section 18572
  Each counting board and its members are subject to the liabilities and penalties to which precinct boards or their members are subject where the votes...
• California Elections Code Section 18573
  Every person is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code for 16 months or...
• California Elections Code Section 18573.5
  (a) It is a misdemeanor for a person who is providing care or direct supervision to an elder in a state-licensed or state-subsidized facility or...
• California Elections Code Section 18574
  Every person who, after being required by the precinct board at an election, refuses to be sworn or, being sworn, refuses to answer any pertinent...
• California Elections Code Section 18575
  Every person is guilty of a felony, and on conviction shall be punished by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal...
• California Elections Code Section 18576
  Any person who willfully (a) interferes with the prompt delivery of a completed vote by mail ballot application, (b) retains a completed vote by mail...
• California Elections Code Section 18577
  Any person having charge of a completed vote by mail ballot who willfully interferes or causes interference with its return to the local elections official...
• California Elections Code Section 18578
  Any person who applies for, or who votes or attempts to vote, a vote by mail ballot by fraudulently signing the name of a fictitious...
• California Elections Code Section 18600
  Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor who: (a) Circulating, as principal or agent, or having charge or control of the circulation of, or obtaining...
• California Elections Code Section 18601
  Any person working for the proponent or proponents of an initiative or referendum measure or recall petition who refuses to allow a prospective signer to...
• California Elections Code Section 18602
  Any person working for the proponent or proponents of a statewide initiative or referendum measure who covers or otherwise obscures the summary of the measure...
• California Elections Code Section 18603
  Every person who offers or gives money or other valuable consideration to another in exchange for his or her signature on a state, county, municipal,...
• California Elections Code Section 18604
  Upon conviction of a violation of any provision of this article, Article 2 (commencing with Section 18610), Article 3 (commencing with Section 18620), Article 5...
• California Elections Code Section 18610
  Every person who solicits any circulator to affix to any initiative, referendum, or recall petition any false or forged signature, or to cause or permit...
• California Elections Code Section 18611
  Every person is punishable by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000), or by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the...
• California Elections Code Section 18612
  Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor who knowingly signs his or her own name more than once to any initiative, referendum, or recall petition,...
• California Elections Code Section 18613
  Every person who subscribes to any initiative, referendum, or recall petition a fictitious name, or who subscribes thereto the name of another, or who causes...
• California Elections Code Section 18614
  Every person is punishable by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000), or by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the...
• California Elections Code Section 18620
  Every person who seeks, solicits, bargains for, or obtains any money, thing of value, or advantage of or from any person, firm, or corporation for...
• California Elections Code Section 18621
  Any proponent of an initiative or referendum measure or recall petition who seeks, solicits, bargains for, or obtains any money or thing of value of...
• California Elections Code Section 18622
  Every person who offers to buy or does buy from a circulator any referendum, initiative, or recall petition on which one or more persons have...
• California Elections Code Section 18630
  Every person who threatens to commit an assault or battery on a person circulating a referendum, initiative, or recall petition or on a relative of...
• California Elections Code Section 18631
  Every person who forcibly or by stealth takes from the possession of a circulator any initiative, referendum, or recall petition on which one or more...
• California Elections Code Section 18640
  Any person working for the proponent or proponents of an initiative or referendum measure or recall petition who solicits signatures to qualify the measure or...
• California Elections Code Section 18650
  No one shall knowingly or willfully permit the list of signatures on an initiative, referendum, or recall petition to be used for any purpose other...
• California Elections Code Section 18660
  Every person is punishable by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000), or by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the...
• California Elections Code Section 18661
  Every public official or employee is punishable by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000), or by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section...
• California Elections Code Section 18670
  Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor who, either as principal or agent, files in the office of the Secretary of State, county elections official,...
• California Elections Code Section 18671
  Any petition, or any section of a petition, filed by any person other than the proponents of an initiative or referendum measure and with an...
• California Elections Code Section 18680
  Every person who is entrusted with money or things of value for the purpose of promoting or defeating any initiative, referendum, or recall petition or...
• California Elections Code Section 18700
  Any voter who has filed an application for the position of, and been appointed as a precinct board member and who, without being excused by...
• California Elections Code Section 19001
  This division shall be liberally construed so that the real will of the electors will not be defeated by any informality or failure to comply...
• California Elections Code Section 19002
  Any provision of this division, insofar as it is inconsistent with any other provision of this code relating to the same subject matter, shall be...
• California Elections Code Section 19003
  Notwithstanding any other provision of the law to the contrary, including any city or county ordinance, unless that other provision of the law is deemed...
• California Elections Code Section 19004
  Voting equipment may be loaned or rented for any purposes with the consent of the board of supervisors, if payment for the expenses incident to...
• California Elections Code Section 19005
  In the case of electrical failure or other emergency, the official conducting the election may direct that ballots may be marked by pencil or ink....
• California Elections Code Section 19100
  The Secretary of State shall study and adopt regulations governing the use of voting machines, voting devices, vote tabulating devices, and ballot marking systems.
• California Elections Code Section 19101
  The Chairperson of the Senate Standing Committee on Elections and Reapportionment and the Chairperson of the Assembly Standing Committee on Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments...
• California Elections Code Section 19102
  The Secretary of State may investigate any alleged violation of this code or the Secretary of State's regulations with the power to subpoena all necessary...
• California Elections Code Section 19103
  (a) (1) No later than 10 business days after the Secretary of State approves the use of a new or updated voting system, the vendor...
• California Elections Code Section 19200
  The Secretary of State shall not approve any voting system, or part of a voting system, unless it fulfills the requirements of this code and...
• California Elections Code Section 19200.5
  The Secretary of State shall not approve any voting system that permits a voter to exit a polling place with a facsimile of the ballot...
• California Elections Code Section 19201
  (a) No voting system, in whole or in part, shall be used unless it has received the approval of the Secretary of State prior to...
• California Elections Code Section 19202
  (a) A person or corporation owning or being interested in a voting system or a part of a voting system may apply to the Secretary...
• California Elections Code Section 19203
  The Secretary of State may make all arrangements for the time and place to examine voting equipment proposed to be sold in this state. He...
• California Elections Code Section 19204
  Prior to giving its decision approving or withholding approval of any voting machine, voting device, or vote tabulating device, the Secretary of State shall hold...
• California Elections Code Section 19205
  The Secretary of State shall establish the specifications for and the regulations governing voting machines, voting devices, vote tabulating devices, and any software used for...
• California Elections Code Section 19206
  For the purpose of assistance in examining a voting system the Secretary of State may employ not more than three expert electronic technicians at a...
• California Elections Code Section 19207
  Within 30 days after completing the examination of any voting system, the Secretary of State shall place on file a report stating whether in his...
• California Elections Code Section 19208
  If the report states that the voting system can be used, it shall be deemed approved by the Secretary of State and machines or devices...
• California Elections Code Section 19209
  Within 10 days after filing the report, the Secretary of State shall send a copy to the board of supervisors of each county.
• California Elections Code Section 19210
  The governing board may adopt for use at elections any kind of voting system, any combination of voting systems, any combination of a voting system...
• California Elections Code Section 19211
  The governing board, without formally adopting a system that it might lawfully adopt, may provide for its experimental use at an election in one or...
• California Elections Code Section 19212
  The governing board may provide for the payment of the cost of the voting system equipment in any manner and by any method as it...
• California Elections Code Section 19212.5
  (a) When a voting system or a part of a voting system has been approved by the Secretary of State, the vendor shall notify the...
• California Elections Code Section 19213
  When a voting system or a part of a voting system has been approved by the Secretary of State, it shall not be changed or...
• California Elections Code Section 19214
  The Secretary of State may seek injunctive and administrative relief when a voting system or a part of a voting system has been compromised by...
• California Elections Code Section 19214.5
  (a) The Secretary of State may seek all of the following relief for an unauthorized change in hardware, software, or firmware in a voting system...
• California Elections Code Section 19215
  (a) The Secretary of State may seek injunctive relief requiring an elections official, or any vendor or manufacturer of a voting machine, voting system, or...
• California Elections Code Section 19216
  The Secretary of State shall not approve any voting system that uses paper ballots unless the paper used for the ballots is of sufficient quality...
• California Elections Code Section 19217
  A voting system shall comply with all of the following: (a) No voting system or part of a voting system shall be connected to the...
• California Elections Code Section 19220
  The elections official of any county or city using voting or vote tabulating equipment shall inspect the machines or devices at least once every two...
• California Elections Code Section 19221
  If the Secretary of State has reason to believe that a local inspection of equipment is not adequate, he or she may cause the equipment...
• California Elections Code Section 19222
  The Secretary of State shall review voting systems periodically to determine if they are defective, obsolete, or otherwise unacceptable. The Secretary of State has the...
• California Elections Code Section 19223
  The Secretary of State shall conduct random audits of the software installed on direct recording electronic voting systems, as defined in Section 19251, to ensure...
• California Elections Code Section 19225
  The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) Microchip and digital technologies are increasingly changing the way Americans vote. (b) State and political subdivisions are...
• California Elections Code Section 19226
  As used in this article: (a) "Access" means the ability to receive, use, select, and manipulate data and operate controls included in voting technology and...
• California Elections Code Section 19227
  (a) The Secretary of State shall adopt rules and regulations governing any voting technology and systems used by the state or any political subdivision that...
• California Elections Code Section 19227.5
  In requiring nonvisual access pursuant to this article, the Secretary of State shall obtain recommendations from representatives of blind consumer organizations, experts in accessible software...
• California Elections Code Section 19228
  Compliance with this article in regard to voting technology and systems purchased prior to the effective date of this article shall be achieved at the...
• California Elections Code Section 19229
  (a) A person injured by a violation of this article may maintain an action for injunctive relief to enforce this article. (b) An action for...
• California Elections Code Section 19229.5
  This article does not apply to voting by vote by mail ballot.
• California Elections Code Section 19230
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the Voting Modernization Bond Act of 2002 (Shelley-Hertzberg Act).
• California Elections Code Section 19231
  The State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code),...
• California Elections Code Section 19232
  As used in this article, the following words have the following meanings: (a) "Board" means the Voting Modernization Board, established pursuant to Section 19235. (b)...
• California Elections Code Section 19233
  (a) The Voting Modernization Finance Committee is hereby established for the purpose of authorizing the issuance and sale, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond...
• California Elections Code Section 19234
  (a) The committee may create a debt or debts, liability or liabilities, of the State of California, in the aggregate amount of not more than...
• California Elections Code Section 19234.5
  The Legislature may amend subdivisions (c) and (d) of Section 19234 and Section 19235 by a statute, passed in each house of the Legislature by...
• California Elections Code Section 19235
  The Voting Modernization Board is hereby established and designated the "board" for purposes of the State General Obligation Bond Law, and for purposes of administering...
• California Elections Code Section 19236
  (a) All bonds authorized by this article, when duly sold and delivered as provided herein, constitute valid and legally binding general obligations of the State...
• California Elections Code Section 19237
  Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, there is hereby continuously appropriated from the General Fund, for purposes of this article, a sum of money...
• California Elections Code Section 19238
  For the purposes of this article, the Director of Finance may, by executive order, authorize the withdrawal from the General Fund of a sum of...
• California Elections Code Section 19239
  The board may request the Pooled Money Investment Board to make a loan from the Pooled Money Investment Account, in accordance with Section 16312 of...
• California Elections Code Section 19240
  Upon request of the board, supported by a statement of its plans and projects approved by the Governor, the committee shall determine whether to issue...
• California Elections Code Section 19241
  (a) The committee may authorize the Treasurer to sell all or any part of the bonds authorized by this article at the time or times...
• California Elections Code Section 19242
  Out of the first money realized from the sale of bonds as provided herein, there shall be redeposited in the General Obligation Bond Expense Revolving...
• California Elections Code Section 19243
  Any bonds issued and sold pursuant to this article may be refunded in accordance with Article 6 (commencing with Section 16780) of Chapter 4 of...
• California Elections Code Section 19244
  Notwithstanding any provision of the bond act, if the Treasurer sells bonds under this article for which bond counsel has issued an opinion to the...
• California Elections Code Section 19245
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that, inasmuch as the proceeds from the sale of bonds authorized by this article are not "proceeds of taxes"...
• California Elections Code Section 19250
  (a) On and after January 1, 2005, the Secretary of State shall not approve a direct recording electronic voting system unless the system has received...
• California Elections Code Section 19251
  For purposes of this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Accessible" means that the information provided on the paper record copy...
• California Elections Code Section 19252
  To the extent that they are available for expenditure for the purposes of this article, federal funds or moneys from the Voting Modernization Fund, created...
• California Elections Code Section 19253
  (a) On a direct recording electronic voting system, the electronic record of each vote shall be considered the official record of the vote, except as...
• California Elections Code Section 19254
  The Secretary of State shall not approve a direct recording electronic voting system unless the paper used for its voter verified paper audit trail is...
• California Elections Code Section 19255
  (a) For each statewide election, the Secretary of State shall conduct parallel monitoring of each direct recording electronic voting system on which ballots will be...
• California Elections Code Section 19260
  The Secretary of State shall not approve any ballot marking system, or part of a ballot marking system, unless it fulfills the requirements of this...
• California Elections Code Section 19261
  (a) A ballot marking system, in whole or in part, shall not be used unless it has received the approval of the Secretary of State...
• California Elections Code Section 19262
  (a) A person or corporation owning or having an interest in a ballot marking system or a part of a ballot marking system may apply...
• California Elections Code Section 19263
  The Secretary of State may make all arrangements for the time and place to examine ballot marking systems proposed to be sold in this state....
• California Elections Code Section 19264
  (a) Prior to giving his or her decision approving or withholding approval of any ballot marking system, the Secretary of State shall hold a public...
• California Elections Code Section 19265
  The Secretary of State shall establish the specifications for and the regulations governing ballot marking systems, and the related software. The criteria for establishing the...
• California Elections Code Section 19266
  For the purpose of assistance in examining a ballot marking system, the Secretary of State may employ not more than three expert electronic technicians at...
• California Elections Code Section 19267
  Within 30 days after completing the examination of any ballot marking system, the Secretary of State shall place on file a report stating whether, in...
• California Elections Code Section 19268
  If the report states that the ballot marking system can be used, it shall be deemed approved by the Secretary of State and systems of...
• California Elections Code Section 19269
  Within 10 days after filing the report, the Secretary of State shall send a copy to the board of supervisors of each county.
• California Elections Code Section 19270
  (a) When a ballot marking system has been approved by the Secretary of State, the vendor shall notify the Secretary of State and all local...
• California Elections Code Section 19271
  When a ballot marking system has been approved by the Secretary of State, it shall not be changed or modified until the Secretary of State...
• California Elections Code Section 19272
  The Secretary of State may seek injunctive and administrative relief when a ballot marking system has been compromised by the addition or deletion of hardware,...
• California Elections Code Section 19273
  (a) The Secretary of State may seek all of the following relief for an unauthorized change in hardware, software, or firmware in a ballot marking...
• California Elections Code Section 19274
  (a) The Secretary of State may seek injunctive relief requiring an elections official, or any vendor or manufacturer of a ballot marking system, to comply...
• California Elections Code Section 19275
  A ballot marking system or part of a ballot marking system shall not do any of the following: (a) Have the capability, including an optional...
• California Elections Code Section 19300
  A voting machine shall, except at a direct primary election or any election at which a candidate for voter-nominated office is to appear on the...
• California Elections Code Section 19301
  (a) A voting machine shall provide in the general election for grouping under the name of the office to be voted on, all the candidates...
• California Elections Code Section 19302
  The labels on voting machines and the way in which candidates' names are grouped shall conform as nearly as possible to the form of ballot...
• California Elections Code Section 19303
  If the voting machine is so constructed that a voter can cast a vote in part for presidential electors of one party and in part...
• California Elections Code Section 19304
  A write-in ballot shall be cast in its appropriate place on the machine, or it shall be void and not counted.
• California Elections Code Section 19320
  Before preparing a voting machine for any general election, the elections official shall mail written notice to the chairperson of the county central committee of...
• California Elections Code Section 19321
  The elections official shall affix ballot labels to the machines to correspond with the sample ballot for the election. He or she shall employ competent...
• California Elections Code Section 19322
  When a voting machine has been properly prepared for an election, it shall be locked against voting and sealed. After that initial preparation, a member...
• California Elections Code Section 19323
  The elections official shall deliver to the polling place the supplies necessary to conduct the election, including two sample ballots, one envelope containing the seal...
• California Elections Code Section 19340
  Any member of a precinct board who has not previously attended a training class in the use of the voting machines and the duties of...
• California Elections Code Section 19341
  The precinct board shall consist of one inspector and two judges who shall be appointed and compensated pursuant to the general election laws. One additional...
• California Elections Code Section 19360
  Before unsealing the envelope containing the keys and opening the doors concealing the counters the precinct board shall determine that the number on the seal...
• California Elections Code Section 19361
  The keys to the voting machines shall be delivered to the precinct board no later than 12 hours before the opening of the polls. They...
• California Elections Code Section 19362
  The exterior of the voting machine and every part of the polling place shall be in plain view of the election precinct board and the...
• California Elections Code Section 19370
  As soon as the polls are closed, the precinct board, in the presence of the watchers and all others lawfully present, shall immediately lock the...
• California Elections Code Section 19371
  Before adjourning, the precinct board shall seal the operating lever with the seal provided and lock the machine so that the voting and counting mechanism...
• California Elections Code Section 19380
  During the reading of the result of votes cast, any candidate or watcher who may desire to be present shall be admitted to the polling...
• California Elections Code Section 19381
  In each election district where voting machines are used, statements of the results of the vote cast shall be printed to conform with the type...
• California Elections Code Section 19382
  The statement of the result of votes cast, which shall be certified by the precinct board, shall contain: (a) The total number of votes cast....
• California Elections Code Section 19383
  A member of the precinct board shall enter the vote, as registered, on the statements of result of votes cast, in the same order on...
• California Elections Code Section 19384
  The precinct board shall, before it adjourns, post conspicuously on the outside of the polling place a copy of the result of the votes cast...
• California Elections Code Section 19385
  The precinct board shall immediately transmit unsealed to the elections official a copy of the result of the votes cast at the polling place, the...
• California Elections Code Section 19386
  Before proceeding to canvass the returns of an election at which voting machines have been used to register the votes cast, the board authorized to...
• California Elections Code Section 20000
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Truth in Endorsements Law.
• California Elections Code Section 20001
  The Legislature hereby finds the following to be true: (1) The major political parties have become an integral part of the American governmental system requiring...
• California Elections Code Section 20006
  The superior court, in any case brought before it by any registered voter, may issue a temporary or permanent restraining order or injunction against the...
• California Elections Code Section 20007
  No candidate or committee in his or her behalf shall represent in connection with an election campaign, either orally or in campaign material, that the...
• California Elections Code Section 20008
  Any paid political advertisement that refers to an election or to any candidate for state or local elective office and that is contained in or...
• California Elections Code Section 20009
  (a) Every simulated ballot or simulated sample ballot shall bear on each surface or page thereof, in type or lettering at least half as large...
• California Elections Code Section 20010
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), no person, firm, association, corporation, campaign committee, or organization may, with actual malice, produce, distribute, publish, or broadcast...
• California Elections Code Section 20100
  If the name of a corporation includes all or part of the name of any person, together with either (a) all or part of the...
• California Elections Code Section 20200
  As used in this article "person" includes a firm, association, corporation, campaign committee or organization.
• California Elections Code Section 20201
  It is unlawful for any person that includes in any part of its name the name of any political party that was qualified to participate...
• California Elections Code Section 20202
  It is unlawful for any person who solicits funds for the purpose of supporting or promoting any candidates or committees to include in any part...
• California Elections Code Section 20203
  Any person who solicits or receives contributions on behalf of any candidate or committee for the purported and exclusive use of that committee or the...
• California Elections Code Section 20301
  This chapter shall not be construed to impose any reporting obligations in addition to those obligations imposed by other provisions of law, nor shall this...
• California Elections Code Section 20400
  The Legislature declares that the purpose of this chapter is to encourage every candidate for public office in this state to subscribe to the Code...
• California Elections Code Section 20420
  As used in this chapter, "Code" means the Code of Fair Campaign Practices.
• California Elections Code Section 20440
  At the time an individual is issued his or her declaration of candidacy, nomination papers, or any other paper evidencing an intention to be a...
• California Elections Code Section 20441
  The Secretary of State shall print, or cause to be printed, blank forms of the code. The Secretary of State shall supply the forms to...
• California Elections Code Section 20442
  The elections official shall accept, at all times prior to the election, all completed forms that are properly subscribed to by a candidate for public...
• California Elections Code Section 20443
  Every code subscribed to by a candidate for public office pursuant to this chapter is a public record open for public inspection.
• California Elections Code Section 20444
  In no event shall a candidate for public office be required to subscribe to or endorse the code.
• California Elections Code Section 20500
  The provisions of Part 2 (commencing with Section 43) of Division 1 of the Civil Code, relating to libel and slander, are fully applicable to...
• California Elections Code Section 20501
  (a) A candidate or state measure proponent is liable for any slander or libel committed by a committee that is controlled by that candidate or...
• California Elections Code Section 20502
  (a) In any action for libel or slander brought by a candidate, the willingness or unwillingness of the defendant to retract or correct a communication...
• California Elections Code Section 21000
  The county elections official in each county shall compile and make available to the Legislature or any appropriate committee of the Legislature any information and...
• California Elections Code Section 21001
  (a) Appropriate committees of the Legislature shall prepare detailed maps showing the boundaries of any districts established by this division on or after January 1,...
• California Elections Code Section 21002
  Each house of the Legislature shall be a proper party to, and, if not originally named as a party, shall have the right to intervene...
• California Elections Code Section 21003
  (a) (1) Not sooner than April 1, 2020, and not later than July 1, 2020, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall furnish to the...
• California Elections Code Section 21100
  This chapter sets forth the Senate districts.
• California Elections Code Section 21101
  Senate District 1 consists of the following: Whole counties in District 1 Alpine Amador Calaveras El Dorado Lassen Modoc Mono Plumas Sierra Partial Counties in...
• California Elections Code Section 21102
  Senate District 2 consists of the following: Whole counties in District 2 Humboldt Lake Mendocino Napa Partial counties in District 2 Solano Whole Tracts in...
• California Elections Code Section 21103
  Senate District 3 consists of the following: Whole counties in District 3 Marin Partial counties in District 3 San Francisco Whole Tracts in San Francisco...
• California Elections Code Section 21104
  Senate District 4 consists of the following: Whole counties in District 4 Butte Colusa Del Norte Glenn Shasta Siskiyou Sutter Tehama Trinity Yuba Partial counties...
• California Elections Code Section 21105
  Senate District 5 consists of the following: Whole counties in District 5 Yolo Partial counties in District 5 Sacramento Whole Tracts in Sacramento County 96.19,...
• California Elections Code Section 21106
  Senate District 6 consists of the following: Partial counties in District 6 Sacramento Whole Tracts in Sacramento county 1.00, 2.00, 3.00, 4.00, 5.00, 6.00, 7.00,...
• California Elections Code Section 21107
  Senate District 7 consists of the following: Partial counties in District 7 Contra Costa Whole Tracts in Contra Costa County 3010.00, 3020.02, 3020.03, 3020.04, 3031.00,...
• California Elections Code Section 21108
  Senate District 8 consists of the following: Partial counties in District 8 San Francisco Whole Tracts in San Francisco County 133.00, 154.00, 156.00, 157.00, 205.00,...
• California Elections Code Section 21109
  Senate District 9 consists of the following: Partial counties in District 9 Alameda Whole Tracts in Alameda County 4001.00, 4002.00, 4003.00, 4004.00, 4005.00, 4006.00, 4007.00,...
• California Elections Code Section 21110
  Senate District 10 consists of the following: Partial counties in District 10 Alameda Whole Tracts in Alameda County 4309.00, 4310.00, 4311.00, 4312.00, 4321.00, 4322.00, 4323.00,...
• California Elections Code Section 21111
  Senate District 11 consists of the following: Partial counties in District 11 San Mateo Whole Tracts in San Mateo County 6092.00, 6093.00, 6094.00, 6095.00, 6096.01,...
• California Elections Code Section 21112
  Senate District 12 consists of the following: Whole counties in District 12 Merced San Benito Partial counties in District 12 Madera Whole Tracts in Madera...
• California Elections Code Section 21113
  Senate District 13 consists of the following: Partial counties in District 13 Santa Clara Whole Tracts in Santa Clara County 5001.00, 5004.00, 5005.00, 5006.00, 5008.00,...
• California Elections Code Section 21114
  Senate District 14 consists of the following: Whole counties in District 14 Mariposa Tuolumne Partial counties in District 14 Fresno Whole Tracts in Fresno County...
• California Elections Code Section 21115
  Senate District 15 consists of the following: Whole counties in District 15 San Luis Obispo Partial counties in District 15 Monterey Whole Tracts in Monterey...
• California Elections Code Section 21116
  Senate District 16 consists of the following: Whole counties in District 16 Kings Partial counties in District 16 Fresno Whole Tracts in Fresno County 1.00,...
• California Elections Code Section 21117
  Senate District 17 consists of the following: Partial counties in District 17 Los Angeles Whole Tracts in Los Angeles County 1066.41, 1066.43, 1081.01, 1081.02, 1081.03,...
• California Elections Code Section 21118
  Senate District 18 consists of the following: Whole counties in District 18 Inyo Partial counties in District 18 Kern Whole Tracts in Kern County 1.01,...
• California Elections Code Section 21119
  Senate District 19 consists of the following: Partial counties in District 19 Los Angeles Whole Tracts in Los Angeles County 9201.12, 9201.13, 9203.13, 9203.14, 9203.22,...
• California Elections Code Section 21120
  Senate District 20 consists of the following: Partial counties in District 20 Los Angeles Whole Tracts in Los Angeles County 1041.03, 1041.04, 1041.05, 1041.06, 1041.07,...
• California Elections Code Section 21121
  Senate District 21 consists of the following: Partial counties in District 21 Los Angeles Whole Tracts in Los Angeles County 1240.00, 1244.00, 1245.00, 1247.00, 1249.01,...
• California Elections Code Section 21122
  Senate District 22 consists of the following: Partial counties in District 22 Los Angeles Whole Tracts in Los Angeles County 1835.20, 1836.10, 1836.20, 1838.10, 1852.02,...
• California Elections Code Section 21123
  Senate District 23 consists of the following: Partial counties in District 23 Los Angeles Whole Tracts in Los Angeles County 1132.02, 1132.31, 1132.32, 1133.21, 1343.02,...
• California Elections Code Section 21124
  Senate District 24 consists of the following: Partial counties in District 24 Los Angeles Whole Tracts in Los Angeles County 1991.10, 1991.20, 1993.00, 2011.10, 2011.20,...
• California Elections Code Section 21125
  Senate District 25 consists of the following: Partial counties in District 25 Los Angeles Whole Tracts in Los Angeles County 2380.00, 2400.10, 2400.20, 2402.00, 2404.00,...
• California Elections Code Section 21126
  Senate District 26 consists of the following: Partial counties in District 26 Los Angeles Whole Tracts in Los Angeles County 1891.00, 1892.00, 1893.00, 1894.00, 1895.00,...
• California Elections Code Section 21127
  Senate District 27 consists of the following: Partial counties in District 27 Los Angeles Whole Tracts in Los Angeles County 2421.00, 2430.00, 5361.02, 5362.00, 5400.00,...
• California Elections Code Section 21128
  Senate District 28 consists of the following: Partial counties in District 28 Los Angeles Whole Tracts in Los Angeles County 2643.01, 2672.00, 2673.00, 2674.01, 2674.02,...
• California Elections Code Section 21129
  Senate District 29 consists of the following: Partial counties in District 29 Los Angeles Whole Tracts in Los Angeles County 1011.10, 1011.20, 1012.10, 3002.00, 4002.03,...
• California Elections Code Section 21130
  Senate District 30 consists of the following: District 30 Partial counties in District 30 Los Angeles Whole Tracts in Los Angeles County 4085.02, 4086.01, 4335.01,...
• California Elections Code Section 21131
  Senate District 31 consists of the following: Partial counties in District 31 Riverside Whole Tracts in Riverside County 301.00, 302.00, 303.00, 304.00, 305.01, 305.02, 305.03,...
• California Elections Code Section 21132
  Senate District 32 consists of the following: Partial counties in District 32 Los Angeles Whole Tracts in Los Angeles County 4017.03, 4021.01, 4021.02, 4022.00, 4023.01,...
• California Elections Code Section 21133
  Senate District 33 consists of the following: Partial counties in District 33 Orange Whole Tracts in Orange County 16.02, 17.04, 17.06, 19.01, 110.00, 114.01, 114.02,...
• California Elections Code Section 21134
  Senate District 34 consists of the following: Partial counties in District 34 Orange Whole Tracts in Orange County 116.01, 740.03, 740.04, 740.05, 740.06, 741.02, 741.03,...
• California Elections Code Section 21135
  Senate District 35 consists of the following: Partial counties in District 35 Orange Whole Tracts in Orange County 423.05, 423.13, 423.23, 423.38, 423.39, 525.05, 525.06,...
• California Elections Code Section 21136
  Senate District 36 consists of the following: Partial counties in District 36 Riverside Whole Tracts in Riverside County 432.06, 432.07, 432.09, 432.10, 432.11, 432.12, 432.13,...
• California Elections Code Section 21137
  Senate District 37 consists of the following: Partial counties in District 37 Riverside Whole Tracts in Riverside County 101.00, 102.00, 103.00, 104.00, 107.00, 407.01, 407.02,...
• California Elections Code Section 21138
  Senate District 38 consists of the following: Partial counties in District 38 Orange Whole Tracts in Orange County 421.03, 421.07, 421.08, 421.09, 421.11, 421.12, 421.13,...
• California Elections Code Section 21139
  Senate District 39 consists of the following: Partial counties in District 39 San Diego Whole Tracts in San Diego County 1.00, 2.00, 3.00, 4.00, 5.00,...
• California Elections Code Section 21140
  Senate District 40 consists of the following: Whole counties in District 40 Imperial Partial counties in District 40 Riverside Whole Tracts in Riverside County 445.05,...
• California Elections Code Section 21141
  This chapter shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2015, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is...
• California Elections Code Section 21300
  This chapter sets forth the Board of Equalization Districts.
• California Elections Code Section 21301
  Board of Equalization District 1 consists of the following: Whole counties in District 1 Alameda Colusa Contra Costa Del Norte Humboldt Lake Marin Mendocino Monterey...
• California Elections Code Section 21302
  Board of Equalization District 2 consists of the following: Whole counties in District 2 Alpine Amador Butte Calaveras El Dorado Fresno Glenn Inyo Kern Kings...
• California Elections Code Section 21303
  Board of Equalization District 3 consists of the following: Whole counties in District 3 Imperial Orange Riverside San Diego Partial counties in District 3 Los...
• California Elections Code Section 21304
  Board of Equalization District 4 consists of the following: Partial counties in District 4 Los Angeles Whole Tracts in Los Angeles County 1011.10, 1011.20, 1012.10,...
• California Elections Code Section 21305
  This chapter shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2015, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is...
• California Elections Code Section 21500
  Following each decennial federal census, and using that census as a basis, the board shall adjust the boundaries of any or all of the supervisorial...
• California Elections Code Section 21500.1
  The board shall hold at least one public hearing on any proposal to adjust the boundaries of a district, prior to a public hearing at...
• California Elections Code Section 21501
  The boundaries of the supervisorial districts shall be adjusted by the board before the first day of November of the year following the year in...
• California Elections Code Section 21502
  The supervisorial redistricting commission shall be composed of the district attorney, who shall be chairman, the county assessor, and the county elections official if he...
• California Elections Code Section 21503
  At any time between the decennial adjustments of district boundaries, the board may cause a census of the county to be taken as provided in...
• California Elections Code Section 21504
  Any person claiming that the estimates of population used in the redistricting pursuant to Section 21503 do not reflect the current population within the district...
• California Elections Code Section 21505
  The board may appoint a committee composed of residents of the county to study the matter of changing the boundaries of the supervisorial districts. The...
• California Elections Code Section 21506
  The term of office of any supervisor who has been elected and whose term of office has not expired shall not be affected by any...
• California Elections Code Section 21550
  (a) As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) "Board" means the Board of Supervisors of the County of San...
• California Elections Code Section 21600
  This article applies only to general law cities electing members of the legislative body by districts or from districts, as defined in Section 34871 of...
• California Elections Code Section 21601
  Following each decennial federal census, and using that census as a basis, the council shall, by ordinance or resolution, adjust the boundaries of any or...
• California Elections Code Section 21601.1
  The council shall hold at least one public hearing on any proposal to adjust the boundaries of a district prior to a public hearing at...
• California Elections Code Section 21602
  The boundaries of the council districts shall be adjusted by the council before the first day of November of the year following the year in...
• California Elections Code Section 21603
  If at any time between each decennial federal census, a city annexes territory or consolidates with another city, the legislative body of the city annexing...
• California Elections Code Section 21604
  Any person claiming that the estimates of population used in the redistricting pursuant to Section 21603 do not reflect the current population within the district...
• California Elections Code Section 21605
  The council may appoint a committee composed of residents of the city to study the matter of changing the boundaries of the council districts. The...
• California Elections Code Section 21606
  (a) The term of office of any council member who has been elected and whose term of office has not expired shall not be affected...
• California Elections Code Section 21620
  If the members of the governing body of a chartered city are nominated or elected "by districts" or "from districts," as defined in Section 34871...
• California Elections Code Section 21620.1
  The governing body shall hold at least one public hearing on any proposal to adjust the boundaries of a district prior to a public hearing...
• California Elections Code Section 22000
  (a) Each district required by its authorizing act to adjust division boundaries pursuant to this section shall, by resolution, after each federal decennial census, and...

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