Section 17100.
17100. (a) All nomination documents and signatures in lieu of filing fee petitions filed in accordance with this code shall be held by the officer with whom they are filed during the term of office for which they are filed and for four years after the expiration of the term. (b) Thereafter, the documents and petitions shall […]
Section 17200.
17200. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), elections officials required by law to receive or file in their offices any initiative or referendum petition shall preserve the petition until eight months after the certification of the results of the election for which the petition qualified or, if the measure, for any reason, is not submitted […]
Section 17300.
17300. (a) (1) The elections official shall preserve all rosters or combined rosters and voter lists as provided for in Section 14107, if applicable, until five years after the date of the election, after which they may be destroyed by that official. (2) For purposes of this subdivision, if an electronic poll book is used, a copy of […]
Section 17301.
17301. (a) The following provisions shall apply to those elections where candidates for one or more of the following offices are voted upon: President, Vice President, United States Senator, and United States Representative. (b) The packages containing the following ballots and identification envelope shall be kept by the elections official, unopened and unaltered, for 22 months from […]
Section 17302.
17302. (a) The following provisions shall apply to all state or local elections not provided for in subdivision (a) of Section 17301. An election is not deemed a state or local election if votes for candidates for federal office may be cast on the same ballot as votes for candidates for state or local office. (b) The […]
Section 17303.
17303. (a) The following provisions apply to those elections in which candidates for one or more of the following offices are voted upon: President, Vice President, United States Senator, and United States Representative. (b) The elections official shall preserve the package or packages containing the following items for a period of 22 months: (1) Two tally sheets. (2) The […]
Section 17000.
17000. (a) The elections official shall preserve all canceled original affidavits of registration for a period of five years, after which they may be destroyed by that officer. (b) In lieu of preserving the canceled original affidavit of registration, the elections official may, by filming or other suitable method, record the canceled affidavit and destroy the affidavit […]
Section 17001.
17001. The elections official shall keep a copy of the roster described in Section 2183 on file as a public record for election, political research, and governmental purposes for a period of five years. (Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 806, Sec. 78. (SB 286) Effective January 1, 2018.)