Elections: vote by mail.

Existing law permits a voter to apply to his or her elections official for a vote by mail ballot between the 29th and the 7th day prior to an election. Existing law requires the Secretary of State to prepare and distribute to appropriate elections officials a uniform electronic application for a vote by mail ballot. Existing law requires a printed application for a vote by mail ballot that is to be distributed to voters and the uniform electronic application prepared by the Secretary of State to contain space to provide specified information, including the date on which the application must be received by the elections official prior to the election. Existing law also requires a printed application and the uniform electronic application to contain specified statements related to voting. This bill would delete the requirement that a printed application and the uniform electronic application contain space to include the date on which the application is due and would instead require that an application state that the application is due 7 days prior to the election. The bill would provide that the specified statements related to voting be substantially similar to those statements currently found in these provisions.