CHAPTER 1. Vote by Mail Application and Voting Procedures

Heading of Chapter 1 amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 508, Sec. 11.

§§ 3000–3026 · 29 sections

§ 3000 This division shall be liberally construed in favor of the vote by mail voter.
§ 3000.5 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, for each election, the elections official shall, no later than 29 days before the day of the election, begin mailing the…
§ 3001 No later than 29 days before the day of the election, the county elections official shall begin mailing the materials required by Section 3010. The county…
§ 3002 All persons granted confidentiality pursuant to Section 2166 shall (1) be required to vote by mail ballot, and (2) in addition to the required residence…
§ 3003 The vote by mail ballot shall be available to any registered voter.
§ 3004 A county elections official shall place a notice in an office within the county where applications are taken for federal passports or where military…
§ 3005 (a) Whenever, on the 88th day before the election, there are 250 or less persons registered to vote in any precinct, the elections official may furnish each…
§ 3010 (a) The elections official shall deliver all of the following to each qualified applicant: (1) The ballot for the precinct in which the voter resides. In…
§ 3011 (a) The identification envelope shall contain all of the following: (1) A declaration, under penalty of perjury, stating that the voter resides within the…
§ 3012 Whenever the elections official is required to mail a vote by mail voter’s ballot to any elector and the address to which the ballot is to be mailed is a point…
§ 3013 Upon delivering or mailing a vote by mail voter’s ballot, the elections official shall enter on the affidavit of registration the type of ballot and the date…
§ 3014 (a) The elections official shall provide a replacement ballot to any voter upon receipt of a replacement ballot request from the voter. Both of the following…
§ 3015 (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (f) of Section 14310, vote by mail voters who return to the polling place designated for their home precincts on or before…
§ 3016 Vote by mail voters who return to the polling place designated for their home precincts on or before election day, or go to a vote center established pursuant…
§ 3016.3 (a) No later than 29 days before the day of the election, any voter using a vote by mail ballot may, prior to the close of the polls on election day, vote the…
§ 3016.5 (a) A voter may vote their vote by mail ballot, without the identification envelope, in person at the office of the county elections official, a satellite…
§ 3016.7 The county elections official shall permit any voter to cast a ballot using a certified remote accessible vote by mail system, regardless of whether the voter…
§ 3017 (a) (1) All vote by mail ballots cast under this division shall be voted on or before the day of the election. After marking the ballot, the vote by mail voter…
§ 3019 (a) (1) Upon receiving a vote by mail ballot, the elections official shall compare the signature on the identification envelope with either of the following to…
§ 3019.5 (a) A county elections official shall establish a free access system that allows a vote by mail voter to learn if the voter’s vote by mail ballot was counted…
§ 3019.7 (a) The Secretary of State shall maintain a system to allow a vote by mail voter to track the voter’s vote by mail ballot through the mail system and as the…
§ 3020 (a) All vote by mail ballots cast under this division shall be received by the elections official from whom they were obtained or by the precinct board no…
§ 3021.5 (a) Upon the declaration of an out-of-state emergency by the Governor and the issuance of an executive order authorizing an out-of-state emergency worker to…
§ 3023 Each ballot that is delivered pursuant to this chapter shall be accompanied by a state voter information guide, unless the voter has already been provided a…
§ 3024 The cost to administer vote by mail ballots where issues and elective offices related to school districts, as defined by Section 17519 of the Government Code,…
§ 3025 (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) “Vote by mail ballot drop box” means a secure receptacle established by…
§ 3025.5 (a) (1) A county that does not conduct an election pursuant to Section 4005 shall provide at least two vote by mail ballot drop-off locations within the…
§ 3025.7 (a) A county that conducts a statewide primary or statewide general election in accordance with Section 3025.5 or 4005 shall, in addition to the vote by mail…
§ 3026 (a) The Secretary of State shall promulgate regulations establishing guidelines for county elections officials relating to the processing of vote by mail…