Section 13230 Of Article 2. Allowable Changes In Ballot Format And Printing From California Elections Code >> Division 13. >> Chapter 3. >> Article 2.
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. (a) If the county elections official determines that, due to
the number of candidates and measures that must be printed on the
ballot, the ballot will be larger than may be conveniently handled,
the county elections official may provide that a nonpartisan ballot
shall be given to each partisan voter, together with his or her
partisan ballot, and that the material appearing under the heading
"Voter-Nominated and Nonpartisan Offices" on partisan ballots, as
well as the heading itself, shall be omitted from the partisan
ballots.
(b) If the county elections official so provides, the procedure
prescribed for the handling and canvassing of ballots shall be
modified to the extent necessary to permit the use of two ballots by
partisan voters. The county elections official may, in this case,
order the second ballot to be printed on paper of a different tint,
and assign to those ballots numbers higher than those assigned to the
ballots containing partisan offices.
(c) "Partisan voters," for purposes of this section, includes both
persons who have disclosed a party preference pursuant to Section
2151 or 2152 and persons who have declined to disclose a party
preference, but who have chosen to vote the ballot of a political
party as authorized by that party's rules duly noticed to the
Secretary of State.