AB 2233, as amended, Donnelly. Primary elections: petitions: signatures.
Existing law requires a person who seeks to have his or her name printed on the ballot used at the direct primary to file with the county elections official a declaration of candidacy and nomination papers. Existing law requires a person to pay a fee to file his or her declaration of candidacy. Existing law permits a candidate to submit a petition containing a specified number of signatures of registered voters in lieu of the filing fee required for the declaration of candidacy.
This bill would require the elections official to reduce the number of signatures required on a petition in lieu of a filing fee for a special election that is held to fill a vacancy by the same proportion as the reduction in time for the candidate to collect signatures if the number of days for a candidate to collect the signatures is less than the number of days that a candidate would have to collect signatures on a petition at a regular election for the same office.begin insert However, the elections official would not be permitted to reduce the number of signatures to less than 100 for a special election to fill a vacancy in the office of Representative in Congress, state Senator, or Member of the Assembly.end insert
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 8106.5 is added to the Elections Code,
2to read:
begin insert(a)end insertbegin insert end insert If the number of days for a candidate to collect
4signatures on a petition in lieu of a filing fee for a special election
5that is held to fill a vacancy is less than the number of days that a
6candidate would have to collect signatures on a petitionbegin delete atend deletebegin insert forend insert a
7regular election for the same office, the elections official shall
8reduce the required number of signatures for the
petition, as
9specified in subdivision (a) of Section 8106, by the same proportion
10as the reduction in time for the candidate to collect signatures.begin insert In
11determining the proportion of time by which the period for a
12candidate to collect signatures has been reduced, end insertbegin insertthe elections
13official shall exclude any days allotted for filing a supplemental
14petition pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (b) of Section
158106.end insert
16(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), the number of signatures
17required on an in-lieu-filing-fee petition for a special election held
18to fill a vacancy in the office of Representative in Congress, state
19Senator, or Member of the
Assembly shall be not less than 100.
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