Voter education and outreach plans.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary does not provide specific details on the exact information that must be included in voter education and outreach plans beyond the mentioned topics.

Voter Education and Outreach Plans

This law changes how counties plan voter education and outreach when they do not use all-mail ballots for elections.

What This Bill Does

• Repeals old rules about the Secretary of State making sure counties have programs to register voters who are not registered.
• Requires counties that don't conduct an election as an all-mailed ballot election to design and implement a voter education and outreach plan to identify and register qualified but unregistered voters.
• Tells these counties they must provide information on topics like voting by mail, military voter options, and how to vote.
• Needs county election officials to send updates of their plans to the Secretary of State.
• Requires the Secretary of State to put each county's current plan online for everyone to see.

Who It Names or Affects

• County elections officials
• Voters who are not registered

Terms To Know

all-mailed ballot election

An election where all voters receive their ballots by mail instead of voting in person.

state-mandated local program

A program that the state requires counties or other local agencies to run, even if they don't want to.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify how much it will cost counties to follow these new rules.
• It is unclear what specific information must be included in voter education and outreach plans beyond the topics mentioned.
• Details of reimbursement for mandated costs are not specified.

Official Summary Text

AB 1411, Sharp-Collins.
Voter education and outreach plans.
Existing law requires the Secretary of State to adopt regulations requiring counties to design and implement programs intended to identify and register qualified voters who are not registered to vote. Existing law further requires the Secretary of State to adopt regulations prescribing minimum requirements for those programs. If the Secretary of State finds that a county has not designed and implemented a program meeting those minimum requirements, the Secretary of State must design the program for the county and report the violation to the Attorney General.
This bill would repeal the above provisions. The bill would instead require counties that do not conduct an election as an all-mailed ballot election, as specified, to design and implement a voter education and outreach plan to identify and register qualified voters who are not registered
to vote. The bill would require such plans to provide information to the public about specified topics, such as vote by mail procedures and options for military and overseas voters. The bill would require county elections officials to submit amendments to their plans to the Secretary of State, who must make the current version of each plan available on the Secretary of State’s internet website. The bill would require the Secretary of State to provide county elections officials a template for their plans.
By imposing new duties on local elections officials, the bill would create a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on
State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

Current Bill Text

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