If you want to nominate someone for the presidential primary election, you need to prepare and collect signatures on nomination papers. These papers must be submitted to the local county elections office for review at least 81 days before the primary election date.

Once a candidate files the necessary nomination papers signed by enough voters, they can choose a delegation to appear on the presidential primary ballot.

When the Secretary of State receives enough signatures to qualify a candidate or delegation for the presidential primary ballot, they must inform the leader of any other candidates or delegations that haven't yet qualified. This means no more signatures will be accepted for those unselected candidates or delegations.

This law states that when you're signing a nomination paper for a candidate or delegation, you can only sign one paper. Additionally, you must print your name, state where you live, and confirm your intention to support the candidate or delegation you are signing for.

This law states that nomination papers for candidates or uncommitted delegations in the Democratic Party can be divided into sections. Each section must include the candidate's name or, for uncommitted delegations, the chairperson's name. Each section also needs to identify the county where it's being circulated. Only registered Democratic voters from that specific county are allowed to sign the nomination paper.

This law section requires each petition section to have lines that are numbered for signatures, and it must include an affidavit from the person who collected the signatures. This affidavit must follow all the rules stated in another section of the law, Section 104. Importantly, no other affidavit is needed, and the circulator's affidavit can be verified for free by any officer who is authorized to give oaths.

This law says that a nomination paper, once verified, is assumed to have genuine signatures from actual voters. This assumption holds until those signatures are compared against registration records by the county elections office.

This law outlines the required format for the nomination paper used to get a candidate or an uncommitted delegate on the presidential primary ballot in California. It includes sections signed by voters to support a specific candidate, declaring they haven't supported another nomination and expressing their intent to back the named candidate.

The circulator of the nomination paper, usually responsible for collecting signatures, must swear they are at least 18 years old and provide their home address. They must confirm in an affidavit that all gathered signatures are authentic and collected within a specific period, including witnessing each signing.