Elections.

(1) Existing law provides that whenever a vacancy occurs or a resignation containing a deferred effective date has been filed with the county superintendent of schools, the school district or community college district governing board is required, within 60 days, to either order an election or make a provisional appointment. Existing law provides that if a provisional appointment is made, the registered voters of the district may, within 30 days, petition for a special election to fill the vacancy, and requires a specified number of registered voters of the district to sign the petition. This bill would clarify the meaning of "registered voters" of the district for purposes of those provisions. (2) Under existing law, a person may not be registered to vote except by affidavit of registration. Existing law requires a properly executed registration to be deemed effective upon receipt of the affidavit of registration by the county elections official if the affidavit is postmarked, submitted to the Department of Motor Vehicles or a voter registration agency, or delivered to the county elections official by other means on or before the 15th day prior to the election. This bill would also require the registration to be deemed effective upon receipt of the affidavit by the county elections official if the affidavit is submitted electronically on the Internet Web site of the Secretary of State on or before the 15th day prior to the election. (3) Existing law entitles only an eligible registered voter to sign an initiative, referendum, recall, nominating petition or paper, or any other petition or paper and requires each signer to personally affix his or her signature, printed name, and place of residence on the petition or paper. Existing law requires the elections official, when verifying signatures on a petition or paper, to determine that the residence address on the petition or paper is the same as the residence address on the affidavit of registration. If the addresses are different, the petition or paper does not specify the residence address, or certain information is not included, existing law requires that the affected signature not be counted as valid. This bill would prohibit an elections official who is verifying signatures on a petition or paper from invalidating a signature for an incomplete or inaccurate apartment or unit number in the residence address. (4) Existing law requires the county elections official to file with the Secretary of State a statement containing specified information for each election in the county held pursuant to the Uniform District Election Law. Existing law requires the county elections official to file the statement no later than December 31 immediately following a general district election. This bill would repeal these provisions. (5) Existing law regulates generally the issuing of ballots on election day as well as the use of direct recording electronic voting systems. Existing law defines the terms "direct recording electronic voting system" and "paper record copy" for purposes of these provisions. This bill would correct erroneous cross references to the code section that defines those terms. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 2102 of the Elections Code proposed by SB 113 that would become operative only if SB 113 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2015, and this bill is chaptered last.