Existing law requires that the first month of each academic semester or quarter, each campus of California Community Colleges (CCD) and California State University (CSU), and requests each campus of the University of California (UC), distribute campuswide emails to all students identifying election dates and voting information.
AB 1249 amends and repeals certain sections of the Elections Code. Specifically, AB 1249 repeals Elections Code section 3018 and adds Section 3016.3. Elections Code Section 3016.3 permits a voter using a vote-by-mail ballot to vote 29 days before the election and to vote at a voting center without a voter identification envelope, if voting at a satellite location. The bill allows a voter to register to vote, complete a provisional ballot, or complete a ballot, so long as a ballot has not been submitted. It also requires that election officials provide notice of satellite locations for voting at least two weeks before the satellite location is available for voting. Additionally, counties without elections must designate voting centers and provide the required notice.
AB 1249 amends Education Code section 66852 to cite to Section 3016.3 of the Elections Code. The notice distributed by campuses of a CCD, CSU, or UC must be updated to include information related to early voting with mail ballots and the requirements related to satellite locations.
(AB 1249 amends Section 319.5, 3016.5, 18370, 18502, 18540, and 18541 of, adds Section 3016.3 to, and repeals Section 3018 of, the Elections Code, and amends Section 66852 of the Education Code.)