California Elections Code ARTICLE 2 - Election Day Procedures

  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Section 14213.
    Before the precinct board receives any ballots, it shall proclaim aloud at the place of election that the polls are open.(Enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch....
  • Section 14214.
    Voting shall commence as soon as the polls are opened and shall be continued during the time the polls remain open.(Enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch....
  • 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...
  • Section 14216.
    (a) Any person desiring to vote shall state or provide his or her name and address and, upon the precinct officers finding the name in the...
  • Section 14217.
    If the precinct board is unable to find a voter’s name upon the roster, it shall inform the voter that he or she may cast...
  • 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...
  • Section 14219.
    The precinct board shall provide, upon request, to a voter for use in the voting booth or compartment, a copy of the facsimile ballot containing...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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 is...
  • 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 the...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Section 14227.5.
    (a) At a partisan primary election, before providing a voter who has declined to disclose a political party preference with a nonpartisan ballot or before the...

Last modified: October 22, 2018