California Elections Code ARTICLE 4 - Issuing Ballots and Voting

• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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,...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• Section 14278.
  The precinct board shall give each voter only one ballot, as provided in Section 13102.(Enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch. 920, Sec. 2.)
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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 to...
• 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...
• 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 marking their ballots...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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 voter.(b) The initials,...
• 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...
• 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...
• Section 14291.
  (a) After the ballot is marked, a voter shall not show it to any person in a manner that reveals its contents, except as provided in...
• 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...
• 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...
• Section 14294.
  (a) At all elections, a member of the precinct board shall mark, in the space provided on the voter list posted at or near the polling...
• Section 14295.
  No voter shall deliver to any member of the precinct board any ballot other than the one received from the board member.(Enacted by Stats. 1994,...
• 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...
• Section 14297.
  (a) No later than the time at which the voter delivers the voted ballot, a precinct board member in charge of the voter list shall write...
• Section 14298.
  (a) The precinct board shall maintain at least one printed copy of the voter list posted during the whole time of voting. The copies of the...
• 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 precinct,...
• 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 by...

Last modified: October 22, 2018