Title ELEC — California Elec. Code

The Secretary of State shall, not later than the 32nd day after the election, issue a certification to each person selected as a delegate.

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 a candidate for President of the United States. (Enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch. 920, Sec. 2.)

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 21 days before the primary election, file his or her endorsement of his or her write-in candidacy with the Secretary of State, or no votes shall be…

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 primary election, file a list of delegates to the national convention of his or her political party with the Secretary of State in the manne…

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 vote shall, within 10 days of the end of the 10-day period required in Section 6442, file a list of delegates with the Secretary of S…

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 to his or her candidacy in accordance with the result of the presidential preference primary or who wishes to have an offic…

(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 for a total number of district delegates equal to at least three times the number of congressional districts within t…

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 the following exceptions: (a) Instructions to voters shall exclude any reference to groups of candidates preferring a person…

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 General. (f) Secretary of State. (g) All members of the State Board of Equalization. (h) All Senators and Repr…

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 of the party and whose term of office extends beyond the first Monday in December in the case of legislators and the Monday after…

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

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. (b) When any nominee is disqualified for membership under the provisions of Section 7555 or for any other reason stated in th…

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 within the limits of a single county, by appointment by the county central committee of the party in the county. Whenever a …

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 committee has power to fill. (Enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch. 920, Sec. 2.)

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, he or she shall be a delegate by reason of the most recent election at which he or she becomes a delegate. The resulting vacancy shall be fill…

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 election, but in no event later than August 15.

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. It shall at once proceed to the election of a chairperson. The election shall be by alphabetical rollcall, if requested by a petition sig…

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, and he or she shall appoint other committees as the convention may direct. (Enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch. 920, Se…

The convention, upon election of permanent officers, shall adopt a state platform for this party. This platform shall be made public upon its adoption. (Enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch. 920, Sec. 2.)

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 shall also nominate as the candidates of its party as many electors of President and Vice President of the United States as the state is th…

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

The proceedings at the convention shall be governed by any manual of parliamentary procedure designated by the convention. (Enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch. 920, Sec. 2.)

At each presidential primary election, members of central committees may be elected in each county.

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 the elections officials to the Secretary of State on the 135th day prior to the next presidential primary election.

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 seven. (b) The integer nearest the resulting quotient obtained by dividing 400 times the number of Peace and Freedom Party registered voters in th…

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 countywide, at large district. In each county where the number to be elected is 13 or greater, the members shall be elected by supervisorial district, e…

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) The integer nearest the resulting quotient obtained by dividing the number of members to be elected in that county times the number of Pe…

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 subsequent thereto shall be declared elected as a member of central committees. Any members elected pursuant to this secti…

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 county central committee election will be held. In the event that a county central committee election is not held, a county cent…

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 elected in each supervisorial or Assembly district if the election of the members is to be by supervisorial or Assembly di…

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 either of the following: (a) Filed a nomination paper pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 8020) to Article 6 (commencing with Section 8100)…

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 candidates nominated for election to a central committee from any election jurisdiction does not exceed the number to be ele…

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 committees may seek election only in the supervisorial or Assembly district in which he or she resides. (Enacted by Stats. 199…

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 ballot for a partisan public office shall have her or his name listed on the ballot for member of central committees only in the central co…

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 as a member of central committees. (Enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch. 920, Sec. 2.)

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 central committees shall be the lesser of either of the following: (a) Not less than 20 nor more than 30. (b) Not less than 2 percent of th…

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 their names listed on a single sponsor’s certificate, and the signatures thereon shall be counted toward the sponsor …

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 to the office of county central committee and the candidates therefor on various official lists. (Enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch. 9…

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 held at the time, place, and manner prescribed for determining the order of names of county central committee members pursuant to Chapter …

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 manner designated for the office of county central committee pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 13100) of Division…

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 declared directly elected as a member of central committees pursuant to Section 15490 and shall not possess a multiple member…

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 to the vote for each candidate for county central committee pursuant to Division 15 (commencing with Section 15000). (Enacted by Stats.…

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 bylaws of the state central committee, may select its members at any time by holding a caucus or convention, or by usin…

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, it shall be deemed that there are as many separate judicial offices to be filled as there are judges or justices of the court to be elected. Each separate office…

(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 the California Constitution, shall be filed with the officer charged with the duty of certifying nominations for publication in the officia…

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 her name printed upon any ballot as a candidate for any numerically designated office other than the one indicated by him or her in his…

(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 not appear on the ballot unless there is filed with the elections official, within 10 days after the final date for filing nomination papers for…

(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 declaration of intention but for any reason fails to file his or her nomination papers by the last day prescribed for the filing of the papers, an ad…

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 judge of the superior court of the county if a majority of the voters of the county, voting on the question of its adoption, vote in favor thereof…

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 of the county, declaring that the public interest requires the submission at an election of the proposal to adopt the provisions as appli…