SB 784, as introduced, Allen. Provisional ballots.
Existing law provides that a voter is entitled to cast a provisional ballot if his or her qualification or entitlement to vote cannot be immediately established. If a precinct board is unable to find a voter’s name on the index of registration on the day of an election, existing law requires the precinct board to inform the voter that he or she may cast a provisional ballot and, if the voter elects to do so, furnish the voter with the provisional ballot.
This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those 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 14217 of the Elections Code is amended
2to read:
If the precinct board is unable to find a voter’s name
4begin delete uponend deletebegin insert onend insert the index of registration, it shall inform the voter that he
5or she may cast a provisional ballot and the procedure for doing
6so. If the voter elects to cast a provisional ballot, the precinct board
P2 1shall furnish the voter with a provisional ballot, in accordance with
2Section 14310.
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