Vote by mail ballots.

Existing law authorizes a vote by mail voter who is unable to return a vote by mail ballot to designate another person to return the ballot. Existing law prohibits a person designated to return a vote by mail ballot from receiving any form of compensation based on the number of ballots that the person returns. This bill would expand that prohibition to include any form of compensation related to the return of the ballot, including compensation based on the number of ballots the designated person collects and returns or compensation based on the time spent in the course of employment collecting and returning ballots. The bill would require a person designated to return a vote by mail ballot for a person other than the designated person's spouse, child, parent, grandparent, grandchild, sibling, or a person residing in the same household as the designated person to offer a receipt containing specified identifying information to the person for whom the ballot is being returned.