Elec. Code, § 13303 · Chapter 4. State and County Voter Information Guides
Elec. Code, § 13303
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
(a) For each election, each appropriate elections official shall cause to be printed, on plain white paper or tinted paper, without watermark, at least as many copies of the form of ballot provided for use in each voting precinct as there are voters in the precinct. These copies shall be designated “county voter information guide” upon their face and shall include a substantial facsimile of the official ballots used in the election, except as otherwise provided by law. A county voter information guide shall be mailed, postage prepaid, no later than 21 days before the election to each voter who is registered at least 29 days before the election.
(b) The elections official shall send notice of the polling place, which includes vote centers, to each voter with the county voter information guide. Only official matter shall be sent out with the county voter information guide as provided by law.
(c) The elections official shall send notice of the polling place, which includes vote centers, to each voter who registered after the 29th day before the election and is eligible to participate in the election. The notice shall also include information as to where the voter can obtain a county voter information guide and a state voter information guide before the election, a statement indicating that those documents will be available at the polling place at the time of the election, and the address of the Secretary of State’s internet website and, if applicable, of the county internet website where a county voter information guide may be viewed.
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History
Amended by Stats. 2019, Ch. 566, Sec. 3. (SB 151) Effective January 1, 2020.
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Cited by 46 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Elec. Code, § 13303. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Elections Code
- Elec. Code, § 4005Printed as Section 13303
- Elec. Code, § 4101Printed as Sections 13300 and 13303
- Elec. Code, § 9160Printed as Section 13303
- Elec. Code, § 9162Printed as Section 13303
- Elec. Code, § 9282Printed as Section 13303
- Elec. Code, § 13300.7Printed as Section 13303
- Elec. Code, § 13304Printed as Section 13303
- Elec. Code, § 13305Printed as Section 13303 | Sections 13300 and 13303
- Elec. Code, § 13306Printed as Sections 13300, 13303, and 13307
Government Code
- Gov. Code, § 23274Printed as Section 13303 of the Elections Code
- Gov. Code, § 23359Printed as Section 13303 of the Elections Code
- Gov. Code, § 23559Printed as Section 13303 of the Elections Code
- Gov. Code, § 23713Printed as Sections 9162 and 13303 of the Elections Code
- Gov. Code, § 34460Printed as Sections 9281 and 13303 of the Elections Code
- Gov. Code, § 57148Printed as Section 13303 of the Elections Code
- Gov. Code, § 67974Printed as Section 13303 of the Elections Code
Harbors and Navigation Code
Health and Safety Code
- Health & Saf. Code, § 4716.4Printed as Section 13303 of the Elections Code
- Health & Saf. Code, § 6461.4Printed as Section 13303 of the Elections Code
- Health & Saf. Code, § 13826Printed as Section 13303 of the Elections Code
- Health & Saf. Code, § 20040.4Printed as Section 13303 of the Elections Code
- Health & Saf. Code, § 32002.34Printed as Section 13303 of the Elections Code
Military and Veterans Code
Public Resources Code
Public Utilities Code
- Pub. Util. Code, § 11643.4Printed as Section 13303 of the Elections Code
- Pub. Util. Code, § 15762.4Printed as Section 13303 of the Elections Code
- Pub. Util. Code, § 22229.4Printed as Section 13303 of the Elections Code
- Pub. Util. Code, § 30740.5Printed as Section 13303 of the Elections Code
- Pub. Util. Code, § 40334Printed as Section 13303 of the Elections Code
- Pub. Util. Code, § 60103Printed as Section 13303 of the Elections Code
- Pub. Util. Code, § 130411Printed as Section 13303 of the Elections Code
- Pub. Util. Code, § 131108Printed as Section 13303 of the Elections Code
- Pub. Util. Code, § 142263Printed as Section 13303 of the Elections Code
- Pub. Util. Code, § 180203Printed as Section 13303 of the Elections Code
- Pub. Util. Code, § 240308Printed as Section 13303 of the Elections Code
Revenue and Taxation Code
Water Code
- Wat. Code, § 20896Printed as Section 13303 of the Elections Code
- Wat. Code, § 30293.4Printed as Section 13303 of the Elections Code
- Wat. Code, § 34402.4Printed as Section 13303 of the Elections Code
- Wat. Code, § 55184.4Printed as Section 13303 of the Elections Code
- Wat. Code, § 56018.4Printed as Section 13303 of the Elections Code
- Wat. Code, § 70041.4Printed as Section 13303 of the Elections Code
- Wat. Code, § 71163.4Printed as Section 13303 of the Elections Code
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