Section 14313 Of Article 5. Provisional Voting From California Elections Code >> Division 14. >> Chapter 3. >> Article 5.
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. (a) Upon the declaration of a state of emergency by the
Governor and the issuance of an executive order authorizing an
emergency worker to cast a ballot outside of his or her home
precinct, elections officials in the counties included in the
executive order shall, upon demand, issue to an emergency worker a
provisional ballot that may be identical to the provisional ballot
offered to other voters in the county, using a process to be
determined by the elections official. The elections official shall
transmit for processing any ballot cast, including any materials
necessary to process the ballot, pursuant to this section to the
elections official in the county where the voter is registered to
vote.
(b) To be counted, a ballot cast pursuant to this section shall
satisfy both of the following requirements:
(1) Be cast by the voter no later than the close of the polls on
election day.
(2) Be received by the county elections official where the voter
is registered on or before the 10th day following the date of the
election.
(c) Upon receipt of the returned ballot, the elections official
shall process the ballot pursuant to the procedures in subdivision
(c) of Section 14310.
(d) If the requirements in subdivisions (b) and (c) are met and
the ballot is eligible to be counted, the ballot shall be duplicated
and all other materials preserved according to the procedures set
forth in this code.
(e) "Emergency worker" for the purposes of this section means a
person who is officially engaged in responding to the proclaimed
state of emergency and whose vocation has been identified in an
executive order relating to the state of emergency.