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Committee advances AB 331 to clarify certification duties, curb misleading ballot envelopes and ensure jailed voters receive voter guides
Summary
The Assembly Elections Committee voted March 26 to advance AB 331, which would clarify counties' duty to certify election results, criminalize distribution of misleading unofficial ballot return envelopes and require jail-acceptable delivery of voter information guides.
The California State Assembly Elections Committee on March 26 voted to pass AB 331, authored by Chair Pellerin, which would (1) clarify that a county elections official's duty to certify election results is ministerial and nondiscretionary, (2) make distributing fraudulent or misleading ballot return envelopes a crime and (3) require that state and county voter information guides be delivered to county jails in a format jails can accept so registered jailed voters receive them.
The bill's sponsors include the state Attorney General's Office. Deputy Attorney General Tiffany…
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