California Code
Elections Code - ELEC
DIVISION 13 - BALLOTS, SAMPLE BALLOTS, AND VOTER PAMPHLETS

CHAPTER 1 - Purchasing Procedures

Section 13000. - 13000. The person in charge of elections for any county,...

Section 13001. - 13001. All expenses authorized and necessarily incurred in the preparation...

Section 13002. - 13002. Ballot paper and ballot cards used by a jurisdiction...

Section 13004. - 13004. (a) The Secretary of State shall adopt regulations governing...

Section 13004.5. - 13004.5. (a) A jurisdiction shall not purchase, lease, or contract...

Section 13005. - 13005. (a) Before a user may purchase ballot cards, the...

Section 13006. - 13006. A user, vendor, or manufacturer shall not warehouse for...

CHAPTER 2 - Forms of Ballots: Ballot Order

Section 13100. - 13100. All ballots used in all elections shall be governed...

Section 13101. - 13101. (a) In the case of the prevention of an...

Section 13102. - 13102. (a) All voting shall be by ballot. There shall...

Section 13103. - 13103. Every ballot shall contain all of the following: (a)...

Section 13104. - 13104. If a candidate changes his or her name within...

Section 13105. - 13105. (a) In the case of a candidate for a...

Section 13106. - 13106. No title or degree shall appear on the same...

Section 13107. - 13107. (a) With the exception of candidates for Justice of...

Section 13107.3. - 13107.3. (a) A candidate who submits a ballot designation pursuant...

Section 13107.5. - 13107.5. (a) A candidate’s ballot designation as “community volunteer” shall...

Section 13108. - 13108. (a) At the first elections for Representative in Congress,...

Section 13109. - 13109. The order of precedence of offices on the ballot...

Section 13109.5. - 13109.5. Notwithstanding anything in Section 13109 to the contrary, and...

Section 13109.7. - 13109.7. (a) (1) Notwithstanding Section 13109, for a period of...

Section 13109.8. - 13109.8. For the purposes of Sections 13109.7 and 13109.9, the...

Section 13109.9. - 13109.9. Notwithstanding Section 13109, the county elections official for the...

Section 13109.10. - 13109.10. (a) When a special election to fill a vacancy...

Section 13110. - 13110. The group of names of candidates for any partisan...

Section 13111. - 13111. Candidates for each office shall be printed on the...

Section 13112. - 13112. The Secretary of State shall conduct a drawing of...

Section 13113. - 13113. (a) In the case of an election of candidates...

Section 13114. - 13114. (a) At any regular meeting of a city council...

Section 13115. - 13115. The order in which all state measures that are...

Section 13116. - 13116. (a) In an election at which state, county, city,...

Section 13117. - 13117. (a) Commencing with the November 3, 1998, general election,...

Section 13118. - 13118. The following rules apply when a person who is...

Section 13119. - 13119. (a) The ballots used when voting upon a measure...

Section 13120. - 13120. The ballots used when voting upon a state, county,...

Section 13121. - 13121. Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the county...

CHAPTER 3 - Ballot Printing Specifications

ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions

Section 13200. - 13200. Ballots not printed in accordance with this chapter shall...

Section 13201. - 13201. The ballots of each political party’s central committee shall...

Section 13202. - 13202. All ballots of the same sort prepared by any...

Section 13203. - 13203. Across the top of the ballot shall be printed...

Section 13204. - 13204. (a) The instructions to voters shall be printed below...

Section 13205. - 13205. Additional instructions to voters shall appear on the ballot...

Section 13206. - 13206. (a) On the partisan ballot used in a direct...

Section 13206.5. - 13206.5. (a) (1) On the ballot used in a statewide...

Section 13207. - 13207. (a) There shall be printed on the ballot in...

Section 13208. - 13208. (a) In the right-hand margin of each column light...

Section 13209. - 13209. Whenever a foreign translation of the ballot is required...

Section 13210. - 13210. (a) In the case of candidates for delegate to...

Section 13211. - 13211. The names of the candidates shall be printed on...

Section 13211.5. - 13211.5. (a) Each group of names of candidates for a...

Section 13211.7. - 13211.7. (a) (1) In jurisdictions required to provide translated ballot...

Section 13212. - 13212. Except for a voter-nominated office at a general election,...

Section 13213. - 13213. Each group of names of candidates for a particular...

Section 13214. - 13214. The left-hand side of the first column of names...

Section 13215. - 13215. (a) The ballots may be printed on the same...

Section 13216. - 13216. (a) On each ballot a horizontal non-solid-ruled line shall...

Section 13216.5. - 13216.5. A ballot stub may be used, but is not...

Section 13217. - 13217. (a) The number on each ballot shall be the...

Section 13218. - 13218. (a) The Secretary of State shall establish a ballot...

Section 13219. - 13219. When printed, all ballots shall be bound in stub...

Section 13220. - 13220. If two or more officers are to be elected...

ARTICLE 2 - Allowable Changes in Ballot Format and Printing

Section 13230. - 13230. (a) If the county elections official determines that, due...

Section 13231. - 13231. If the elections official of any county finds it...

Section 13232. - 13232. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for the purpose...

Section 13233. - 13233. In a municipal election, if the number of candidates...

ARTICLE 3 - Vote Tabulating Devices

Section 13240. - 13240. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this code, the ballots...

Section 13241. - 13241. The names of the candidates and the respective offices...

Section 13242. - 13242. Where electromechanical vote tabulating devices are used to count...

Section 13243. - 13243. The ballots may contain printed code marks or punched...

Section 13244. - 13244. The county voter information guide provided pursuant to Chapter...

Section 13246. - 13246. The device for marking the ballot may be of...

Section 13247. - 13247. The statement of all measures submitted to the voters...

ARTICLE 4 - Punchcards

Section 13260. - 13260. In approving ballots and ballot cards, the Secretary of...

Section 13261. - 13261. (a) Each ballot card shall have two stubs attached....

Section 13262. - 13262. (a) The ballot shall contain the same material as...

Section 13263. - 13263. The county voter information guide provided pursuant to Chapter...

Section 13264. - 13264. If more than one ballot card is used at...

Section 13265. - 13265. If the number of offices and measures to be...

Section 13266. - 13266. If punchcard ballots are used for vote by mail...

Section 13267. - 13267. If an official ballot consisting of one or more...

ARTICLE 5 - Ballot Labels

Section 13282. - 13282. Whenever the Attorney General prepares a condensed ballot title...

CHAPTER 4 - State and County Voter Information Guides

Section 13300. - 13300. (a) By at least 29 days before the partisan...

Section 13300.5. - 13300.5. In order to facilitate the timely production and distribution...

Section 13300.7. - 13300.7. Notwithstanding any other law, county and city elections officials...

Section 13302. - 13302. (a) The county elections official shall forthwith submit the...

Section 13303. - 13303. (a) For each election, each appropriate elections official shall...

Section 13304. - 13304. The notice of the polling place which is sent...

Section 13305. - 13305. (a) Notwithstanding Sections 13300 and 13303 a county elections...

Section 13306. - 13306. Notwithstanding Sections 13300, 13303, and 13307, county voter information...

Section 13307. - 13307. (a) (1) Each candidate for nonpartisan elective office in...

Section 13307.5. - 13307.5. A candidate for United States Representative may purchase the...

Section 13307.7. - 13307.7. (a) If the elections official posts the form to...

Section 13308. - 13308. In addition to the restrictions set forth in Section...

Section 13309. - 13309. (a) Notwithstanding Section 13307, if a candidate alleges to...

Section 13310. - 13310. Prior to the nomination period for an election, the...

Section 13311. - 13311. Notwithstanding the California Public Records Act (Division 10 (commencing...

Section 13312. - 13312. (a) Each county voter information guide prepared pursuant to...

Section 13313. - 13313. (a) The elections official shall make a copy of...

Section 13314. - 13314. (a) (1) An elector may seek a writ of...

Section 13316. - 13316. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, a county,...

Section 13317. - 13317. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, a county,...

CHAPTER 5 - Facsimile Copies of Ballots

Section 13400. - 13400. (a) A vote by mail voter may request that...

CHAPTER 6 - Partisan Primary Elections

Section 13500. - 13500. This chapter applies only to partisan primary elections. (Added...

Section 13501. - 13501. (a) The Secretary of State shall include in the...

Section 13502. - 13502. (a) With each nonpartisan vote by mail ballot that...