Elections: vote by mail ballot applications.

Existing law requires that a printed application that is to be distributed to a voter for requesting a vote by mail voter's ballot include specified information. Existing law requires an individual, organization, or group that distributes applications for vote by mail ballots and receives completed application forms to return the forms to the appropriate elections official within 72 hours of receiving the forms. This bill would require a printed vote by mail application that allows a voter to submit the application by mail to inform the voter of the address for the elections official and specify that address as the only appropriate destination address for the application, as specified. The bill would provide that it not be construed as prohibiting an individual, organization, or group that distributes applications for vote by mail voter ballots from collecting or receiving applications from voters by means other than having applications mailed directly to the address of the distributing individual, organization, or group.