Title ELEC, California Elec. Code

Notwithstanding Sections 13300 and 13303, the elections official shall not commence to mail the combined county voter information guide and mail ballot before the 29th day before the election and shall complete the mailing by the 10th day before the election. (Amended by Stats. 2…

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 return the voted ballot by certified or registered mail. (Enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch. 920, Sec. 2.)

(a) 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. on election day. (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), any vote by mail ballot cast under this chapter shall be timely ca…

(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 for the voter to indicate “Yes” or “No”: “SHALL THE MAILED BALLOT BE USED TO CONDUCT ALL FUTURE GENERAL DISTRICT ELECTIONS?”…

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 general district elections, shall be printed on the ballot of any general district election upon (a) the adoption of an appropriate resolution b…

(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 general district election to be held on the same day as the statewide direct primary election or the day of the statewide general elec…

(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 requiring its general district election to be held on the same day as the statewide direct primary election or the day of the s…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law and regardless of the number of eligible voters within its boundaries a district may, by resolution of its governing board, conduct any election by all-mailed ballots pursuant to Division 4 (commencing with Section 4000). (b) (1) A district condu…

A party is qualified to participate in a primary election under any of the following conditions: (a) (1) At the last preceding gubernatorial primary election, the sum of the votes cast for all of the candidates for an office voted on throughout the state who disclosed a preferenc…

(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 meet the standards for qualification set forth in Section 5100 shall be prohibited from participating in any primary election.…

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, that party shall not be qualified to participate in the primary election but shall be deemed to have been abandone…

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 abets the overthrow by any unlawful means of, or that directly or indirectly carries on, advocates, teaches, jus…

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 elections official a certified list, for each congressional district wholly or partially within that county, containing …

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 the candidates to appear on the Peace and Freedom Party presidential preference primary ballot and the names and addresses o…

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 NATIONAL CONVENTION DELEGATE To the County Elections Official of ______ County: I, ____, Secretary of Stat…

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 addresses of the candidates for delegates for whom nomination papers have been filed and who are entitled to be voted for at …

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 and addresses of the candidates for whom nomination papers have been filed and who are entitled to be voted for at the pre…

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 in each congressional district who received the largest number of votes in the primary election among the candidates who disclosed a prefere…

(a) 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 nominees for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Treasurer, Controller, Attorney General, and Secretary of State, the Republican nominees fo…

At each presidential preference primary election, members of central committees, which shall be termed “county councils,” shall be elected in each county. (Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 86, Sec. 108. (SB 1171) Effective January 1, 2017.)

For purposes of this chapter, the registration figures used shall be those taken from the statement of voters and their political preferences transmitted by the elections officials to the Secretary of State on or before March 1 of the odd-numbered year preceding the next presiden…

The number of members of the county council to be elected in a county shall be a minimum of three and a maximum of 50, and the process in which each county’s number shall be calculated shall be defined in the Green Party’s bylaws and, to be effective, shall be communicated to the…

At its first meeting following the presidential preference primary election and at subsequent meetings, a county council may appoint additional members to the county council to fill any vacancy. (Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 86, Sec. 111. (SB 1171) Effective January 1, 2017.)

A person shall not be appointed to membership on a county council who is registered as preferring another party or registered as “No Party Preference.” Appointment of other persons who cannot register to vote shall be allowed under certain circumstances as described in state Gree…

The removal of residence by an elected or appointed member of a county council from the applicable county shall constitute automatic resignation from the county council. (Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 726, Sec. 4. (AB 477) Effective January 1, 2016.)

A member of a county council who changes her or his voter registration to no longer prefer the Green Party shall automatically be removed from office upon such registration. (Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 726, Sec. 4. (AB 477) Effective January 1, 2016.)

County council members additionally may be removed for cause by procedures established in the Green Party’s bylaws. (Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 726, Sec. 4. (AB 477) Effective January 1, 2016.)

When a person is appointed to a county council, the county council shall file notices of the appointment with the county elections official and the coordinating committee of the Green Party within 30 days after the appointment is made. The notices shall contain the name and addre…

The Department of General Services shall permit any county council that desires to do so to hold meetings in a state building within the county, and a minimum of one meeting each month shall be without charge. (Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 726, Sec. 4. (AB 477) Effective January 1, …

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 for presidential electors pledged to a particular candidate for President and Vice President of the United States shall file a de…

(a) The declaration of write-in candidacy for presidential elector shall contain the following information: (1) Candidate’s name. (2) Residence address. (3) A declaration stating that the candidate is a write-in candidate for the office of presidential elector. (4) Oath or affirm…

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. (Enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch. 920, Sec. 2.)

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 a group of presidential electors are pledged on the declaration of write-in candidacy filed pursuant to Section 8650 shall be counted as vo…