Cal. Elec. Code § 2105
General Provisions
Redline — January 1, 2011 → current.View current text →
Current — January 1, 2025
As of January 1, 2011
It is the intent of the Legislature that voter registration be maintained at the highest possible level. The Secretary of State shall adopt regulations requiring each county to design and implement programs intended to identify qualified electors who are not registered voters, and to register those persons to vote. The Secretary of State shall adopt regulations prescribing minimum requirements for those programs. If the Secretary of State finds that a county has not designed and implemented a program meeting the prescribed minimum requirements, the Secretary of State shall design a program for the county and report the violation to the Attorney General.
(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to maintain voter registration at the highest possible level.
(b) A county that does not satisfy the conditions to conduct an all-mailed ballot election pursuant to Section 4005 shall design and implement a voter education and outreach plan pursuant to this section. The purpose of the plan shall be to identify and register qualified electors who are not registered to vote and to encourage participation in the electoral process.
(c) Each voter education and outreach plan shall, at a minimum, provide information to the public about online voter registration, preregistration opportunities, vote by mail procedures, ballot tracking services, options for military and overseas voters, options for voters with disabilities, options for in-person voting opportunities, language accessibility, and key election dates and deadlines.
(d) (1) The Secretary of State shall provide county elections officials a template for their voter education and outreach plans.
(2) (A) The Secretary of State shall make the most current version of each voter education and outreach plan available on the Secretary of State’s internet website.
(B) The county elections official shall make the most current version of its voter education and outreach plan available on the county elections internet website.
(3) County elections officials shall submit any amendments to their voter education and outreach plans to the Secretary of State by October 1 of each odd-numbered year.
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