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Committee clears bill to clarify certification duty, criminalize misleading return envelopes and ensure voter guides in jails
Summary
AB 331, authored by Assemblymember Pellerin, was passed by the Assembly Elections Committee; the bill clarifies certification duties, bars misleading unofficial ballot return envelopes, and requires voter guides be deliverable to jails in an acceptable format.
AB 331, authored by Assemblymember Pellerin, was approved by the Assembly Elections Committee and re-referred to the Committee on Public Safety. The bill contains three main elements: it clarifies that an elections official’s duty to certify and report election results is ministerial and nondiscretionary; it makes distributing misleading unofficial ballot return envelopes a criminal offense; and it requires that state and county voter information guides delivered to jails be in a format acceptable to…
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