CHAPTER 2. Forms of Ballots: Ballot Order [13100. - 13121.]

Chapter 2 enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch. 920, Sec. 2.

§§ 13100–13121 · 29 sections

§ 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…
§ 13102 (a) All voting shall be by ballot. There shall be provided, at each polling place, at each election at which public officers are to be voted for, but one form…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 13109.5 Notwithstanding anything in Section 13109 to the contrary, and to facilitate compliance with Section 13206, the elections official may list the offices…
§ 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…
§ 13109.8 For the purposes of Sections 13109.7 and 13109.9, the order of precedence of offices on the ballot shall be as listed below for those offices and measures that…
§ 13109.9 Notwithstanding Section 13109, the county elections official for the County of Los Angeles may use the alternate ballot order described in Sections 13109.8 and…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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. The procedure shall…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…