California

Elections Code

2,373 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 11043.5 — (a) The Secretary of State shall provide to county elections officials a recall petition format for distribution to proponents of a recall.
• § 11044 — Separate petitions are necessary to propose the recall of each officer.
• § 11045 — Only registered voters of the electoral jurisdiction of the officer sought to be recalled are qualified to sign a recall petition for that officer.
• § 11046 — To each section of a petition shall be attached a declaration, signed by the circulator thereof, that complies with Section 104.
• § 11047 — When a petition is circulated in more than one county for the recall of an officer, each section of the petition shall bear the name of the county for which it is circulated, and only registered voter
• § 11100 — (a) This chapter applies only to the recall of state officers.
• § 11101 — Unless and until it is otherwise proven upon official investigation, it shall be presumed that the petition presented contains the signatures of the requisite number of registered voters.
• § 11102 — Each section of a recall petition shall be filed with the elections official of the county for which it was circulated.
• § 11103 — Each section of the petition shall be filed by the proponents or by any person or persons authorized, in writing, by a proponent.
• § 11104 — (a) The elections official, 30 days after a recall has been initiated and every 30 days thereafter, or more frequently at the discretion of the elections official, shall report to the Secretary of Sta
• § 11106 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), immediately after the deadline for submission of all signatures, the elections official shall verify any remaining signatures in the same manner set forth in
• § 11107 — The elections official, upon the completion of each examination, shall forthwith attach to the petition a certificate, properly dated, showing the result of the examination, and submit a copy of the p
• § 11108 — (a) When the Secretary of State has received from one or more county elections officials a petition certified to have been signed by a sufficient number of registered voters to initiate a recall elect
• § 11109 — When the Secretary of State determines that the proponents have collected sufficient signatures, he or she shall certify that fact to the Governor.
• § 11110 — Upon receiving certification of the sufficiency of the recall petitions from the Secretary of State, the Governor shall make or cause to be made publication of notice for the holding of the election.
• § 11200 — This chapter shall apply to the recall of local officers.
• § 11201 — When the city or county elections official is the officer sought to be recalled, the duties imposed upon him or her shall be performed by some other person designated by the governing board.
• § 11220 — (a) A recall petition shall be submitted to the elections official for filing in his or her office during normal office hours as posted within the following number of days after the clerk or, in the c
• § 11221 — The number of qualified signatures required in order to qualify a recall for the ballot shall be as follows: (a) In the case of an officer of a city, county, school district, community college distric
• § 11222 — (a) The petition shall be filed by the proponents, or by any person or persons authorized, in writing, by a proponent.
• § 11223 — If the petition was circulated in more than one county, the elections official of each county shall affix, with the certificate showing the results of his or her examination, the number of registered
• § 11224 — (a) Except as provided in Section 11225, within 30 days from the date of filing of the petition, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, the elections official shall examine the petition, and from
• § 11225 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), within 60 days from the date of filing of the petition, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, if, from the examination of petitions pursuant to Section
• § 11226 — If the certificate shows that the petition is insufficient, no action shall be taken on it, but the petition shall remain on file.
• § 11227 — If the elections official finds the signatures on the petition to be sufficient, he or she shall submit his or her certificate as to the sufficiency of the petition to the governing body at its next r
• § 11240 — Within 14 days after the meeting at which the governing body received the certificate of sufficiency as specified in Section 11227, the governing body shall issue an order stating that an election sha
• § 11241 — If the governing board fails to issue the order within the time specified in Section 11240, the county elections official, within five days, shall set the date for holding the election.
• § 11242 — (a) The election shall be held not less than 88, nor more than 125, days after the issuance of the order.
• § 11300 — No insufficiency in a petition against any officer shall bar the later filing of a new petition against that officer.
• § 11301 — If a petition is found insufficient by the elections official or, in the case of the recall of a state officer, the Secretary of State, the petition signatures may be examined in accordance with Secti
• § 11302 — (a) Except as described in paragraph (3) of subdivision (b), if a vacancy occurs in an office after a recall petition is filed against the vacating officer, the recall election shall nevertheless proc
• § 11303 — A voter who has signed a recall petition shall have their signature withdrawn from the petition upon filing a written request that includes the name or title of the petition and the voter’s name, resi
• § 11320 — The following shall appear on the ballots at every recall election, except in the case of a landowner voting district, with respect to each officer sought to be recalled: (a) The question “Shall [name
• § 11322 — In addition to the material contained in Section 11320, the following shall appear on ballots at all recall elections for state officers: (a) The names of the candidates nominated to succeed the offic
• § 11322.5 — (a) (1) In a recall election for a state officer, additional instructions shall be added to the ballot to communicate the following information: (A) That there are two contests on the ballot.
• § 11323 — A voter shall indicate, by completely selecting the voting target next to either “Yes” or “No,” their vote for or against the recall proposal, respectively.
• § 11324 — (a) The official responsible for preparing the ballot shall, at least 10 days before the recall election, mail a voter information guide to each registered voter of the electoral jurisdiction of the o
• § 11325 — (a) With the voter information guide there shall be mailed, for each officer whose recall is sought, a printed copy of the following: (1) The statement of reasons for recall that appeared on the notic
• § 11327 — An officer whose recall is being sought may file a statement with the elections official in accordance with Section 13307, to be sent to each voter, together with the voter information guide.
• § 11328 — A recall election shall be conducted, canvassed, and the results declared in substantially the manner provided by law for a regular election for the office.
• § 11329 — One election is sufficient for the recall of several officers.
• § 11381 — Nominations of candidates to succeed the recalled officer shall be made in the manner prescribed for nominating a candidate to that office in a regular election insofar as that procedure is consistent
• § 11382 — There shall not be an election for a successor in a recall of a local officer pursuant to Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 11200).
• § 11383 — If one-half or more of the votes at a recall election are “No”, the officer sought to be recalled shall continue in office.
• § 11384 — Except as provided in Section 11382, if a majority of the votes on a recall proposal are “Yes”, the officer sought to be recalled shall be removed from office upon the qualification of the officer’s s
• § 11385 — If a state officer is recalled at a recall election, the candidate receiving the highest number of votes for the office shall be declared elected for the unexpired term of the recalled officer.
• § 11386 — If the candidate who received the highest number of votes in a recall election for a state officer fails to qualify within 10 days after receiving the certificate of election, the office to which the
• § 12 — Whenever any candidate files a declaration of candidacy, nomination paper, or any other paper evidencing an intention to be a candidate for any public office at any election in this state with either
• § 1200 — The statewide general election shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of each even-numbered year.
• § 12000 — For each statewide election, the Governor shall issue a proclamation calling the election.
• § 12001 — For a special local election, the governing body of the local agency shall issue a proclamation or a resolution calling the election.
• § 1201 — The statewide direct primary shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in June of each even-numbered year that is not evenly divisible by four and on the first Tuesday after the first
• § 1202 — The presidential primary shall be consolidated with the statewide direct primary in any year that is evenly divisible by four, and the consolidated primary shall be held on the first Tuesday after the
• § 12101 — (a) Not earlier than the 127th nor later than the 113th day before any municipal election to fill offices, the city elections official shall publish a notice of the election in the city pursuant to Se
• § 12102 — The notice of the municipal election shall be substantially in the following form: Notice is hereby given that a ____ (general or special) municipal election will be held in the ____ of ____ on ____,
• § 12103 — At least 158 days before the direct primary, the Secretary of State shall prepare and transmit to each county elections official a notice designating all the offices, except those of county officers a
• § 12104 — (a) A notice designating the offices for which candidates are to be nominated shall be in substantially the following form: NOTICE BY SECRETARY OF STATE OF OFFICES FOR WHICH CANDIDATES ARE TO BE NOMIN
• § 12105 — (a) The elections official shall, not less than one week before the election, publish the list of the polling places designated for each election precinct.
• § 12105.5 — (a) Not less than one week before the election, the elections official shall post a list of all current polling places in each precinct and a list of political party preference of precinct board membe
• § 12106 — (a) The elections official shall publish, as provided in this section and Section 12105, the list of polling places designated for each election precinct in each jurisdiction where the elections offic
• § 12107 — (a) The elections official shall let the contracts for publication, pursuant to Section 12106, of the list of polling places designated for each election precinct, and shall determine the rate to be p
• § 12108 — (a) The elections official shall ascertain the name of the political party, if any, for which each precinct board member has expressed a preference, as shown in the affidavit of registration of that p
• § 12109 — Whenever the ballots at any election or from any precincts are to be tallied at a central place and not at the precincts, the elections official or secretary of the jurisdiction conducting the electio
• § 12110 — In case of a municipal election to fill offices, the city elections official shall not later than one week before the election publish a list of the names of the nominees, in the order in which they a
• § 12111 — (a) In case of a municipal election on any measure, the city elections official shall publish a synopsis of the measure at least one time not later than one week before the election in a newspaper of
• § 12112 — (a) At least 90 days, and not more than 120 days, before the day fixed for the general district election, the elections official of the principal county shall publish a notice of the election once in
• § 12113 — For each school or special district, the county elections official immediately shall deliver a copy of all published notices to the district secretary.
• § 12200 — This chapter applies to all jurisdictions.
• § 12220 — The elections official shall divide the jurisdiction into precincts and prepare detail maps or exterior descriptions thereof, or both, and as many copies as the elections official may determine.
• § 12221 — In any order establishing precincts, their boundaries shall be defined by reference to exterior descriptions or delineation thereof on a map or maps.
• § 12222 — (a) No precinct shall be established so that its boundary crosses the boundary of any supervisorial district, congressional district, senatorial district, Assembly district, board of equalization dist
• § 12223 — (a) Whenever a jurisdiction is divided into election precincts or whenever the boundary of an established precinct is changed or a new precinct is created, the precinct boundary shall be fixed in a ma
• § 12224 — (a) At the discretion of the elections official, the voters of the precinct may be divided into two or more groups, as nearly equal as possible, and one precinct board appointed to serve each group.
• § 12225 — Whenever a precinct is entirely owned or controlled by the United States, and no permission is granted by the federal authorities for the establishment of precinct boards and polling places, precinct
• § 12241 — (a) The elections official conducting local, special, or consolidated elections, or statewide elections other than the direct primary, presidential primary, or general election, for the purpose of the
• § 12260 — (a) The elections official may change or alter any precinct boundaries.
• § 12261 — (a) The boundaries of precincts for the general election shall be the same as those established for the direct primary election, except to the extent necessary to add or subtract precincts as the resu
• § 12262 — Jurisdictional boundary changes occurring less than 125 days before an election shall not be effective for purposes of that election.
• § 12263 — The registrar of voters in each county shall make available, upon request by any member of the public, a map in digital form provided free of charge that shows the effective boundaries of each precinc
• § 12280 — When designating polling places, the elections official shall undertake necessary measures in the locating of polling places to ensure that polling places meet the guidelines promulgated by the Secret
• § 12281 — (a) If, for any valid reason, the polling place designated for any precinct cannot be used, and this fact is known in sufficient time to allow a mailed notice to be received before the election, the e
• § 12282 — Property exempted from taxation pursuant to Section 214 of the Revenue and Taxation Code shall be made available free of charge to the elections official for use as a polling place pursuant to Section
• § 12283 — (a) For purposes of this section, “public building” means a building owned or controlled by any of the following: (1) A local governmental agency, including a city or county.
• § 12284 — Upon request of the elections official, state-owned buildings, parking lots, and other facilities shall be made available free of charge for use as polling places and vote centers, except that the Dep
• § 12285 — A mobilehome may be used as a polling place if the elections official determines that no other facilities are available for the convenient exercise of voting rights by mobilehome park residents and th
• § 12286 — (a) At least 29 days prior to the election, the elections official shall do all of the following: (1) Establish a convenient number of election precincts within the affected jurisdiction.
• § 12287 — A candidate’s residence shall not be designated as a polling place for an election at which that candidate’s name will appear on the ballot.
• § 12287.5 — A single-family residence shall not be designated as a polling place if elections officials determine that it has the registered address of a person who is required to register pursuant to the Sex Off
• § 12288 — A polling place shall not be accessible by a door, window, or other opening to any place where any alcoholic beverage is sold or dispensed while the polls are open.
• § 12300 — Any voter, or any individual who possesses the qualifications set forth in paragraph (1) of subdivision (c) of Section 12302, may file an application with the elections official for the position of pr
• § 12301 — The persons appointed to serve as election officers for each precinct at any election shall constitute the precinct board for that precinct.
• § 12302 — (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), a member of a precinct board shall be a voter of the state.
• § 12303 — (a) A person who cannot read or write the English language is not eligible to act as a member of any precinct board.
• § 12304 — (a) The composition of the precinct board shall be determined by the elections official based on election precinct size.
• § 12306 — The county elections official of any county, in appointing members of the several precinct boards to serve in the direct primary and general elections under the provisions of this code, shall permit t
• § 12307 — Upon filing the list of names and addresses of those who have been appointed members of the precinct board, the elections official shall immediately mail or deliver to each voter so appointed, a notic
• § 12309 — (a) Following the appointment of members of precinct boards, the elections official shall instruct inspectors so appointed concerning their duties in connection with the conduct of the election, which
• § 12309.5 — (a) No later than June 30, 2005, the Secretary of State shall adopt uniform standards for the training of precinct board members, based upon the recommendations of the task force appointed pursuant to
• § 12310 — Each member of a precinct board shall receive compensation from the governing body of the jurisdiction.
• § 12311 — No public agency shall be required as the result of any assignment or transfer to pay the stipend of an election officer for services to any person other than the election officer to whom the stipend
• § 12312 — A person shall not be suspended or discharged from any service or employment because of absence while serving as an election officer.
• § 12313 — (a) If any member of a precinct board does not appear at the opening of the polls on the morning of an election, those voters present, including members of the board, shall appoint a voter to fill the
• § 12314 — The inspector may appoint a voter to replace any precinct board member who ceases to act or becomes incapacitated during the progress of an election.
• § 12315 — If the inspector ceases to act, a majority of the remaining members of the precinct board may appoint a substitute.
• § 12316 — In constituting precinct boards, the elections official may excuse persons appointed whom the elections official is satisfied ought to be excused.
• § 12318 — (a) Following the notification of the precinct board members appointed pursuant to Section 12307, the county elections official shall mail or deliver to the county central committee of each qualified
• § 12319 — The elections official shall immediately mail or deliver to each person appointed as inspector a notice showing the precinct polling place and the voters appointed to serve as election officers in tha
• § 12320 — No person is eligible to act as an election officer until the declaration required by Section 12321 has been signed.
• § 12321 — (a) (1) Each inspector shall sign a declaration of intention to faithfully discharge the duties of inspector and shall return it to the elections official at least 15 days before election day or the f
• § 12327 — (a) If the precinct board members for any precinct have not been appointed or cannot serve, or the polling place has not been designated prior to an election, the county elections official shall, by w
• § 13 — (a) A person shall not be considered a legally qualified candidate for an office, for party nomination for a partisan office, or for nomination to participate in the general election for a voter-nomin
• § 13.5 — (a) (1) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 13, a person shall not be considered a legally qualified candidate for any of the offices set forth in subdivision (b) unless that person has filed a
• § 1300 — (a) (1) An election to select a district attorney and sheriff shall be held with the presidential primary.
• § 13000 — The person in charge of elections for any county, city and county, city, or district shall provide ballots for any elections within his or her jurisdiction, and shall cause to be printed on them the n
• § 13001 — All expenses authorized and necessarily incurred in the preparation for, and conduct of, elections as provided in this code shall be paid from the county treasuries, except that when an election is ca
• § 13002 — Ballot paper and ballot cards used by a jurisdiction holding an election pursuant to the laws of California shall be tinted and watermarked or overprinted with a design, to be furnished by the Secreta
• § 13004 — (a) The Secretary of State shall adopt regulations governing the manufacture, finishing, quality standards, distribution, and inventory control of ballot cards and ballot on demand systems.
• § 13004.5 — (a) A jurisdiction shall not purchase, lease, or contract for a ballot on demand system unless the ballot on demand system has been certified by the Secretary of State.
• § 13005 — (a) Before a user may purchase ballot cards, the user shall request in writing a release for a specific quantity of these ballot cards from the Secretary of State.
• § 13006 — A user, vendor, or manufacturer shall not warehouse for a subsequent election ballot paper or ballot cards furnished or released by the Secretary of State for a specific election without first obtaini
• § 1301 — (a) Except as required by Section 57379 of the Government Code, and except as provided in subdivision (b), a general municipal election shall be held on an established election date pursuant to Sectio
• § 1302 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the regular election to select governing board members in any school district, community college district, or county board of education shall be held on the
• § 1302.1 — In a community college district that includes the trustee areas authorized to be established pursuant to the second paragraph of Section 72022 of the Education Code, the consolidation of the election
• § 1302.2 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, when an elementary, unified, high school, or community college district includes within its boundaries the same territory, or territory that is in part
• § 1302.3 — An annual election for members of the board of education shall be held in each unified district that is coterminous with or includes in its boundaries all or any portion of a chartered city or city an
• § 1302.4 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a regular election for members of the Long Beach Community College District governing board may be held, upon the adoption of an appropriate resolution by t
• § 1302.5 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon recommendation of the county superintendent of schools and with the approval of the county board of supervisors, the election of governing board me
• § 1303 — (a) Unless the principal act of a district provides that an election shall be held on one of the other dates specified in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 1000) of Division 1, or except as provided
• § 1304 — Unless the principal act of a district provides that an election shall be held on one of the other dates specified in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 1000) of Division 1, a general district electio
• § 13100 — All ballots used in all elections shall be governed by this chapter unless otherwise specifically provided.
• § 13101 — (a) In the case of the prevention of an election in any precinct by the loss or destruction of the ballots intended for that precinct, the inspector or other precinct officer for that precinct shall m
• § 13102 — (a) All voting shall be by ballot.
• § 13103 — Every ballot shall contain all of the following: (a) The title of each office, arranged to conform as nearly as practicable to the plan set forth in this chapter.
• § 13104 — (a) If a candidate changes their name within one year of any election, the new name shall not appear upon the ballot unless the change was made by either of the following: (1) Marriage.
• § 13105 — (a) In the case of a candidate for a voter-nominated office in a primary election, a general election, or a special election to fill a vacancy in the office of United States Senator, Member of the Uni
• § 13106 — No title or degree shall appear on the same line on a ballot as a candidate’s name, either before or after the candidate’s name, in the case of any election to any office.
• § 13107 — (a) With the exception of candidates for Justice of the State Supreme Court or court of appeal, immediately under the name of each candidate, and not separated from the name by any line, unless the de
• § 13107.3 — (a) A candidate who submits a ballot designation pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 13107 shall file a ballot designation worksheet that supports the use of that ballot designation by the candidat
• § 13107.5 — (a) A candidate’s ballot designation as “community volunteer” shall constitute a valid principal vocation or occupation for purposes of subdivision (a) of Section 13107, if not otherwise in violation
• § 13108 — (a) At the first elections for Representative in Congress, State Senator, Member of the Assembly, and Member of the Board of Equalization in each congressional, senatorial, Assembly, and Board of Equa
• § 13109 — The order of precedence of offices on the ballot shall be as listed below for those offices and measures that apply to the election for which this ballot is provided.
• § 13109.10 — (a) When a special election to fill a vacancy in the State Senate, State Assembly, United States House of Representatives, or United States Senate is consolidated with the regularly scheduled election
• § 13109.5 — Notwithstanding anything in Section 13109 to the contrary, and to facilitate compliance with Section 13206, the elections official may list the offices specified in subdivision (h) of Section 13109 di
• § 13109.7 — (a) (1) Notwithstanding Section 13109, for a period of three years commencing with the date that the county elections official for the County of Los Angeles declares that the voting system modernizati
• § 13109.8 — For the purposes of Sections 13109.
• § 13109.9 — Notwithstanding Section 13109, the county elections official for the County of Los Angeles may use the alternate ballot order described in Sections 13109.
• § 13110 — The group of names of candidates for any partisan office, voter-nominated office, or nonpartisan office shall be the same on the ballots of all voters entitled to vote for candidates for that office,
• § 13111 — Candidates for each office shall be printed on the ballot in accordance with the following rules: (a) The names of presidential candidates to whom candidates for delegate to the national convention ar
• § 13112 — The Secretary of State shall conduct a drawing of the letters of the alphabet, the result of which shall be known as a randomized alphabet.
• § 13113 — (a) In the case of an election of candidates in a special district, school district, charter city (whose charter does not provide to the contrary), or other local government body, occurring on other t
• § 13114 — (a) At any regular meeting of a city council held prior to the date on which the Secretary of State conducts the randomized alphabet drawing applicable to the regular municipal election under Section
• § 13115 — The order in which all state measures that are to be submitted to the voters shall appear on the ballot is as follows: (a) Bond measures, including those proposed by initiative, in the order in which
• § 13116 — (a) In an election at which state, county, city, or other local measures are submitted to a vote of the voters, all state measures shall be numbered in numerical order, as provided in this chapter or
• § 13117 — (a) Commencing with the November 3, 1998, general election, all state measures in all elections at which state measures are submitted to a vote of the voters shall be numbered in a continuous sequence
• § 13118 — The following rules apply when a person who is a candidate for an office believes that another person with a name that is so similar that it may be confused with the candidate’s name has filed or will
• § 13119 — (a) The ballots used when voting upon a measure proposed by a local governing body or submitted to the voters as an initiative or referendum measure pursuant to Division 9 (commencing with Section 900
• § 13120 — (a) The ballots used when voting upon a county, city, or district ordinance referred to the voters of the respective jurisdiction as a referendum measure pursuant to Division 9 (commencing with Sectio
• § 13121 — Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the county elections official conducting any school election shall not be required to provide more than one ballot to the same voter for the purpose o
• § 13200 — Ballots not printed in substantial compliance with this chapter shall not be cast nor counted at any election.
• § 13201 — The ballots of each political party’s central committee shall be designed so that each ballot may be easily and clearly distinguished from, and not confused with, a ballot of any other political party
• § 13202 — (a) All ballots of the same sort prepared by any county elections official, clerk or secretary of a legislative body, or other person having charge of preparing ballots for the same polling place, sha
• § 13203 — At the top of the first page of the ballot shall be printed in at least 16-point bold type the words “Official Ballot.
• § 13204 — (a) The instructions to voters shall be printed below the ballot identification and above the contests to be voted on, or in the first column of the ballot as long as no contest is placed below the in
• § 13206 — (a) (1) On the partisan ballot used in a direct primary election, immediately before or above the contest for President, the following words shall be printed on ballots of parties that require registr
• § 13206.5 — (a) (1) On the ballot used in a statewide general election in each year evenly divisible by the number four, immediately before or above the contest for President, the following words shall be printed
• § 13207 — (a) There shall be printed on the ballot in parallel columns all of the following: (1) The respective offices.
• § 13208 — (a) A voting target shall be printed next to the name of each voting option.
• § 13209 — Whenever a foreign translation of the ballot is required by the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended by Public Law 94-73, to appear on the ballot as well as the English language version, the
• § 13210 — (a) In the case of candidates for delegate to national convention, there shall be printed in at least 10-point bold type, the words, “President of the United States” and “Vote for one group only.
• § 13211 — The names of the candidates shall be printed on the ballot, without indentation, in at least 10-point bold type.
• § 13211.5 — (a) Each group of names of candidates for a particular office shall be printed in immediate succession to another group of names of candidates for a particular office so as to avoid unnecessary spacin
• § 13211.7 — (a) (1) In jurisdictions required to provide translated ballot materials pursuant to Section 203 of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 (52 U.
• § 13212 — Except for a voter-nominated office at a general election, under the designation of each office shall be printed as many blank spaces, defined by light lines, as there are candidates to be nominated o
• § 13213 — Each group of names of candidates for a particular office shall be separated from the succeeding group.
• § 13214 — All sides of the columns on the ballot shall be bordered.
• § 13215 — (a) The ballots may be printed on the same leaf with a stub not over one inch in depth.
• § 13216 — A ballot stub may be used for a ballot.
• § 13217 — (a) The number on each ballot shall be the same as that on the corresponding stub, and the ballots and stubs shall be numbered consecutively in each county, or the ballots and stubs may be numbered co
• § 13218 — (a) The Secretary of State shall establish a ballot design advisory committee to assist the Secretary of State to promulgate regulations that prescribe ballot design and format.
• § 13219 — When printed, all ballots shall be bound in stub books, of such size as the clerk may determine.
• § 13220 — If two or more officers are to be elected for the same office for different terms, the terms for which each candidate for the office is nominated shall be printed on the ballot as a part of the title
• § 13230 — (a) If the county elections official determines that, due to the number of candidates and measures that must be printed on the ballot, the ballot will be larger than may be conveniently handled, the c
• § 13231 — If the elections official of any county finds it necessary in connection with the use of any approved method of vote counting, the elections official may provide for any of the following changes in th
• § 13232 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for the purpose of conducting the Democratic Party Presidential Primary Election, the Secretary of State may, if it is reasonably necessary to accommodate t
• § 13233 — In a municipal election, if the number of candidates for an office is such that all of the names will not fit in one column of reasonable length, a double column may be used, and all of the following
• § 13240 — Notwithstanding any other provisions of this code, the ballots to be counted by means of electronic or electromechanical devices may be of a size, composition, and texture that, and may be printed in
• § 13241 — The names of the candidates and the respective offices shall be printed on the ballot in parallel columns at least 2 inches wide.
• § 13242 — Where electromechanical vote tabulating devices are used to count all or part of the ballots, the names of presidential candidates may be printed in the same column as the names of candidates for othe
• § 13243 — The ballots may contain printed code marks or punched holes that may be used for placing the ballots in correct reading position in the counting devices.
• § 13244 — The county voter information guide provided pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 13300) shall include a substantial facsimile of the official ballot, including instructions to voters.
• § 13246 — The device for marking the ballot may be of any size, shape, or form, and the impression made on the ballot may be in the form of a cross, square, circle, rectangle, or any other design that will clea
• § 13247 — The statement of all measures submitted to the voters shall be abbreviated on the ballot in a ballot label as provided for in Section 9051.
• § 13282 — Whenever the Attorney General prepares a condensed ballot title and summary, the Attorney General shall file a copy of the condensed ballot title and summary with the Secretary of State.
• § 13300 — (a) By at least 29 days before the partisan primary, each county elections official shall prepare a separate county voter information guide for each political party and a separate nonpartisan county v
• § 13300.5 — In order to facilitate the timely production and distribution of county voter information guides, the county elections official may prepare a combined county voter information guide.
• § 13300.7 — Notwithstanding any other law, county and city elections officials may establish procedures designed to permit a voter to opt out of receiving the voter’s county voter information guide, state voter i
• § 13302 — (a) The county elections official shall forthwith submit the county voter information guide of each political party to the chairperson of the county central committee of that party, and shall mail a c
• § 13303 — (a) For each election, each appropriate elections official shall cause to be printed, on plain white paper or tinted paper, without watermark, at least as many copies of the form of ballot provided fo
• § 13304 — The notice of the polling place which is sent to each voter as provided in Section 13303 may, at the option of the local elections official, inform the voter as to whether the polling place is accessi
• § 13305 — (a) Notwithstanding Sections 13300 and 13303 a county elections official may elect not to mail a county voter information guide to a voter if both of the following are satisfied: (1) The county electi