Bill Text: CA AB476 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Primary election: ballot contents.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-03 - Died at Desk. [AB476 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB476-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 476	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Jones-Sawyer

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2013

   An act to amend Section 13206 of the Elections Code, relating to
elections.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 476, as introduced, Jones-Sawyer. Primary election: ballot
contents.
   Existing law provides for the content that is to be printed on a
partisan election ballot to be used in a direct primary election.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these
provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 13206 of the Elections Code is amended to read:

   13206.  (a) On  the   a  partisan ballot
used in a direct primary election, immediately below the
instructions to voters, there shall be a box not less than one-half
inch high enclosed by a heavy-ruled line the same as the borderline.
This box shall be as long as there are columns for the partisan
ballot and shall be set directly above these columns. Within the box
shall be printed the words "Party-Nominated Offices." Immediately
below that phrase within the same box shall be printed the following:
"Only voters who disclosed a preference upon registering to vote for
the same party as the candidate seeking the nomination of any party
for the Presidency or election to a party committee may vote for that
candidate at the primary election, unless the party has adopted a
rule to permit non-party voters to vote in its primary elections."
   (b) The same style of box described in subdivision (a) shall also
appear over the columns of the nonpartisan part of the ballot and
within the box in the same style and point size of type shall be
printed "Voter-Nominated and Nonpartisan Offices." Immediately below
that phrase within the same box shall be printed the following:
   "All voters, regardless of the party preference they disclosed
upon registration, or refusal to disclose a party preference, may
vote for any candidate for a voter-nominated or nonpartisan office.
The party preference, if any, designated by a candidate for a
voter-nominated office is selected by the candidate and is shown for
the information of the voters only. It does not imply that the
candidate is nominated or endorsed by the party or that the party
approves of the candidate. The party preference, if any, of a
candidate for a nonpartisan office does not appear on the ballot."