This law says that when county election officials are preparing election materials, they do not have to use the county purchasing agent’s services. In other words, they have the freedom to choose how they get these materials without needing approval from the county purchasing office.

Every two years, by January 1st of even-numbered years, the Secretary of State and the Attorney General must create a short summary of the election laws and other related statutes that describe what precinct officers need to do during voting and vote counting. This summary should include references to specific sections of the law. Once the summary is completed, the Secretary of State has to send it to each county's elections official.

This law ensures that during statewide elections, officials must provide enough official ballots for each precinct, based largely on past voter turnout. However, each precinct must have at least 75% of the ballots relative to the number of registered voters. They must also provide extra ballots for mail-in and emergency situations. For primary elections, the number of party-specific ballots depends on how many voters in the precinct are registered for that party. In elections with voting centers, officials must ensure enough voting materials are available.

This law section explains how ballots should be handled before an election. Before polls open, election officials must provide the correct number of ballots to each precinct's precinct board. These ballots must be in sealed packages with clear labels showing the intended precinct or polling place and the number of ballots inside.

In elections that use vote centers, ballots or the material for printing ballots should likewise be delivered in sealed packages that indicate the number or amount enclosed.

An elections official must prepare a written receipt for the items delivered to each polling place, which lists the packages and notes the delivery date. A precinct board member must sign this receipt when they receive the packages, and then return it to the elections office. Messengers can be used to ensure ballots are delivered safely and quickly. These messengers will be paid a fair amount, with the payment handled like other election costs.

This law outlines the materials and resources that election officials must provide to each polling place. These include an accessible voter list, necessary printed forms, instruction cards for voters, a digest of election laws, an American flag to identify the polling place, ballot containers, a certified write-in list, contact cards for voter assistance, and identifying badges for precinct board members. It also requires facsimile ballots in different languages, warnings on voter lists to prevent tampering, a polling place roster, Voter Bill of Rights posters, partisan primary election materials, magnifying glasses, and signature guide cards to assist voters.

This law requires election officials to provide polling places with specific printed notices, as detailed in another section, 9083.5. These notices, supplied by the Secretary of State, must be clearly displayed both inside and outside the polling locations.

This law section explains what the Secretary of State needs to do for partisan primary elections in California. For voters who haven't chosen a political party preference, it outlines the creation of posters or materials. These materials must explain that such voters can participate in a party's primary if the party allows it, list which parties do permit this, and inform voters they can request a ballot for one of these parties. It also mandates that these materials are to be given to election officials at polling places.

This law requires that information about voting rights, as dictated by the Help America Vote Act of 2002, must be displayed at polling places during federal elections. This includes details like how to vote provisionally and who to contact if rights are violated.

The California Secretary of State is responsible for creating and distributing posters and materials about these voting rights in multiple languages. These materials should meet federal and state language requirements, and must be provided to county election officials before statewide elections.

This law states that members of the precinct board at a polling place can only display, distribute, or provide materials that are specifically required by law. If they want to use any other materials, they need approval from the county elections official first.

If an election gets canceled because the current candidate passed away, election officials need to put up signs or provide materials to inform voters about the cancellation and notify them of an upcoming special election to fill the empty position.

This law outlines the requirements for the voter roster maintained by each precinct board during elections. The roster must include spaces for voters to sign and their residential addresses. It must also have a warning that committing voting fraud, such as voting more than once or impersonating another voter, is a crime. After voting, members must certify that all voters who signed actually voted unless challenged or withdrew. Additionally, the number of voters and ballots must be documented, along with lists of those assisted or challenged. Finally, all precinct board members need to sign this certification, and if votes are counted at the precinct, another certificate must be signed as per another legal section.

This legal section allows precinct boards to keep voter rosters in the form of an index to the affidavits of registration. This means instead of a traditional list, they can use an index format. The index must have enough space for voters to sign their names when they go to vote, as required by another section.

This law requires election officers to ensure that polling places have enough booths or compartments where voters can mark their ballots in privacy, without others being able to see how they vote. The number of these voting areas is decided by the election officer in charge.

This law states that translations of ballot measures and instructions must be done by translators who meet specific qualifications. The elections official must choose translators from one of these categories: certified interpreters on the Judicial Council Master List, interpreters recognized by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, translators from accredited institutions, or members of certain translator associations like the American Translators Association or the American Association of Language Specialists.

This law mandates that all voting machines must be moved to polling locations by an authorized official. That official must confirm that the equipment is delivered in proper working condition.

This law requires that ballot containers at polling places are designed to protect the ballots both when they are stored and when they are being removed. The aim is to ensure ballots are secure throughout the process.