Elections: official canvass: manual tally.

Existing law requires, during the official canvass of an election in which a voting system is used, the official conducting the election to conduct a public manual tally of the ballots tabulated by those devices, including vote by mail voters' ballots, cast in 1% of the precincts chosen at random by the elections official. This bill would authorize an official who conducts an election in San Luis Obispo County, Santa Barbara County, Santa Clara County, or Santa Cruz County that takes place on June 8, 2010, June 22, 2010, or August 17, 2010, to conduct a public manual tally by alternative means than those described above. Specifically, the bill would permit the official conducting the election to conduct a separate manual tally of the ballots cast in 1% of the precincts chosen at random by the elections official and a separate manual tally of no less than 1% of the vote by mail ballots cast in the election. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.