Section 2119 Of Article 1. General Provisions From California Elections Code >> Division 2. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 1.
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. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (d) and Chapter 5
(commencing with Section 3400) and Chapter 6 (commencing with Section
3500) of Division 3, the county elections official shall accept
affidavits of registration at all times except during the 14 days
immediately preceding an election, when registration shall cease for
that election as to electors residing in the territory within which
the election is held.
(b) Transfers of registration for an election may be made from one
precinct to another precinct in the same county, from one county to
another county, or for a residence address change within the same
precinct at any time registration is in progress in the precinct or
county to which the elector seeks to transfer. In lieu of executing a
new affidavit of registration for a change of address, the county
elections official shall accept a notice, a letter of the change of
address signed by a voter as he or she is registered, or a written
notice. The former address shall be maintained with the voter record
and the registration of the voter shall be immediately updated.
(c) If the reregistration or transfer is from one county to
another county, the county elections official of the county in which
the voter was formerly registered shall be notified and the
registration of the voter shall be immediately updated.
(d) The county elections official shall accept an affidavit of
registration or a notification for the forthcoming election and shall
immediately update the address on the voter's affidavit of
registration accordingly if the affidavit of registration or
notification is executed on or before the 15th day prior to the
election and if any of the following apply:
(1) The mailed affidavit of registration or notification is
postmarked on or before the 15th day prior to the election and
received by mail by the county elections official before the close of
the polls on election day.
(2) The affidavit of registration or notification is submitted to
the Department of Motor Vehicles or accepted by any other public
agency designated as a voter registration agency pursuant to the
federal National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (52 U.S.C. Sec. 20501
et seq.) on or before the 15th day prior to the election.
(3) The affidavit of registration or notification is delivered to
the county elections official by means other than those described in
paragraphs (1) and (2) on or before the 15th day prior to the
election.
(4) The affidavit is submitted electronically on the Internet Web
site of the Secretary of State pursuant to Section 2196 on or before
the 15th day prior to the election.
(e) If the registration, reregistration, or notification is
executed during the 14 days before an election or is executed on or
before the 15th day prior to the election, but does not meet any of
the conditions set forth in subdivision (d), the registration of the
voter or the update to the registration of the voter shall be
immediately processed, but the voter will not be eligible to vote in
that election.
(f) This section shall become inoperative on January 1, 2017.