California Elections Code CHAPTER 1 - Vote by Mail Application and Voting Procedures

• Section 3000.
  This division shall be liberally construed in favor of the vote by mail voter.(Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 508, Sec. 12. Effective January 1, 2008.)
• Section 3001.
  Except as provided in Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 3200) and Sections 3007.5, 3007.7, and 3007.8, application for a vote by mail voter’s ballot shall...
• 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 3 (commencing with...
• Section 3003.
  The vote by mail ballot shall be available to any registered voter.(Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 508, Sec. 15. Effective January 1, 2008.)
• Section 3004.
  A county elections official shall place a notice in an office within the county where applications are taken for federal passports or where military enlistments...
• Section 3005.
  (a) 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...
• 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 the...
• 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...
• 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 that...
• 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 official...
• Section 3007.8.
  (a) A local elections official may offer a voter the ability to apply for a vote by mail voter’s ballot by telephone.(b) To apply by telephone, the...
• 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 the...
• 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 if...
• 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 shall also...
• 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 in which he...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• Section 3015.
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (f) of Section 14310, vote by mail voters who return to the polling place designated for their home precincts on or before election...
• Section 3016.
  Vote by mail voters who return to the polling place designated for their home precincts on or before election day, or go to a vote...
• 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, the...
• 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 office...
• Section 3019.
  (a) Upon receiving a vote by mail ballot, the elections official shall compare the signature on the identification envelope with either of the following to determine...
• Section 3019.5.
  (a) A county elections official shall establish a free access system that allows a vote by mail voter to learn if his or her vote by...
• Section 3020.
  (a) 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...
• 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...
• Section 3021.5.
  (a) Upon the declaration of an out-of-state emergency by the Governor and the issuance of an executive order authorizing an out-of-state emergency worker to cast a...
• Section 3022.
  The elections official shall include with the county voter information guide an application for a vote by mail ballot.(Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 422, Sec....
• Section 3023.
  Each ballot that is delivered pursuant to this chapter shall be accompanied by a state voter information guide, unless the voter has already been provided...
• 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...
• Section 3025.
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:(1) “Vote by mail ballot drop box” means a secure receptacle established by a county...
• Section 3026.
  The Secretary of State shall promulgate regulations establishing guidelines for county elections officials relating to the processing of vote by mail ballots.(Added by Stats. 2016,...

Last modified: October 22, 2018