Title ELEC — California Elec. Code

Any nomination paper may be presented in sections. Each section shall contain the names of the candidate. Each section shall bear the name of the county in which it is circulated. Only voters of the county registered as intending to affiliate with the political party by which the…

Each section shall be prepared with the lines for signatures numbered, and shall have attached the affidavit of the circulator who obtained signatures to it, which shall meet all of the requirements of Section 104. No other affidavit is required. The affidavit of any circulator s…

A verified nomination paper is prima facie evidence that the signatures are genuine and that the persons signing it are voters, until it is otherwise proved by comparison of the signatures with the affidavits of registration in the office of the county elections official. (Enacte…

The nomination paper for a candidate shall be in substantially the following form: SECTION OF NOMINATION PAPER SIGNED BY VOTER ON BEHALF OF CANDIDATE Section ____________Page ____________ County of __________. Nomination paper for ____________ as presidential nominee of the Repub…

Circulators may obtain signatures to the nomination paper of a candidate at any time not more than 120 nor less than 81 days prior to the presidential primary.

A county elections official or deputy county elections official may not circulate a nomination paper. Circulators may not obtain signatures within 100 feet of any election booth or polling place.

Each section of a nomination paper shall be returned by the circulator who circulated it to the candidate or his or her designee. All the sections circulated in any county shall be collected by the candidate or his or her designee and he or she shall arrange and leave the section…

Prior to filing, the sections of a nomination paper for a candidate shall be numbered in order. (Enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch. 920, Sec. 2.)

Nomination papers, properly assembled, may be consolidated and fastened together by counties, but nomination papers signed by voters in different counties shall not be thus fastened together. (Enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch. 920, Sec. 2.)

The county elections official shall examine all nomination papers left with him or her for examination and shall disregard and mark “not sufficient” the name of any voter of his or her county which does not appear in the same handwriting on an affidavit of registration in the off…

Within five days after any nomination papers are left with him or her for examination, the county elections official shall: (a) Examine and affix to them a certificate reciting that he or she has examined them and stating the number of names which have not been marked “not suffic…

The county elections official’s certificate to nomination papers of a candidate shall be in substantially the following form: COUNTY ELECTION OFFICIAL’S CERTIFICATE TO NOMINATIONPAPERS OF A CANDIDATE To the Secretary of State: I, County Elections Official of the County of _______…

No filing fee is required from any person to be voted for at a presidential primary. (Enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch. 920, Sec. 2.)

The Secretary of State shall, not later than the 32nd day after the election, compile and file in his or her office a statement of the canvassed returns filed with him or her by the county elections officials. The compiled statement shall show for each candidate the total of the …

The Secretary of State shall, not later than the 32nd day after the election, issue a certificate of election to the candidate who received the largest vote cast of that party, that person thereby being the party’s presidential nominee candidate from California.

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.)