BILL NUMBER: AB 2023	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Saldana

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2010

   An act to amend Section 15152 of the Elections Code, relating to
elections.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2023, as introduced, Saldana. Election results.
   Existing law requires the elections official of a county to
conduct a semifinal official canvass of the results of an election
immediately upon the close of the polls and to make the results of
the balloting public. An elections official is not permitted to make
public the results for a candidate or a ballot measure until all the
polls have closed in that county and every other county in which the
candidate or ballot measure is being voted upon.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes 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 1.  Section 15152 of the Elections Code is amended to read:

   15152.  Neither the elections official, any member of a precinct
board, nor any other person shall count any votes, either for a
ballot proposition or  for a  candidate, until the close of
the polls in that county. After that time, the ballots for all
candidates and ballot propositions voted upon solely within the
county shall be counted and the results of the balloting made public.
However, the results for any candidate or ballot proposition also
voted upon in another county or counties shall not be made public
until after all the polls in that county and the other county or
counties have closed. This  paragraph   section
 applies regardless of whether the counting is done by manual
tabulation or by a vote tabulating device.