Late signature curing expenditure reports.

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The bill summary and digest do not provide specific details about enforcement mechanisms or penalties for non-compliance.

Late Signature Curing Expenditure Reports

The bill requires committees to report expenditures made after an election but before certification if these expenditures are related to fixing voter signatures on ballots.

What This Bill Does

• Requires committees to report late signature curing expenditures within 24 hours of making them.
• Defines a 'late signature curing expenditure' as money spent by a committee for activities that fix voter signatures after the election day and before certification.
• Adds this reporting requirement in addition to other campaign finance rules already in place.

Who It Names or Affects

• Committees that make late signature curing expenditures after an election but before certification.

Terms To Know

Late Signature Curing Expenditure

Money spent by a committee to fix voter signatures on ballots after the election day and before the results are finalized.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify what happens if a committee fails to report these late signature curing expenditures.
• It is unclear how this new requirement will be enforced or monitored by elections officials.

Official Summary Text

SB 321, as amended, Cervantes.
Late signature curing expenditure reports.
The Political Reform Act of 1974 provides for the comprehensive regulation of campaign financing, including requiring the filing of reports of contributions and expenditures. Existing law requires a committee that makes an independent expenditure for or against a specific candidate or measure during the 90-day period preceding the date of the election or on the date of the election to report the independent expenditure within 24 hours of the time it is made, as specified.
Existing law requires an elections official, upon receiving a vote by mail ballot, to compare the signature on the identification envelope with the voter’s signature appearing on specified voter registration records. Existing law requires the elections official to notify a voter whose signature does not match or who failed to sign the envelope of the opportunity to verify the
signature or provide a signature, as applicable.
This bill would require a committee that makes a late signature curing expenditure, as defined, to report the late signature curing expenditure within 24 hours of the time it is made. The bill would define “late signature curing expenditure” to mean an expenditure made by a committee related to ballot curing activities that occurs after the date of the election and before the certification of the election, as specified. The bill would provide that this late signature curing expenditure report is in addition to any other campaign statement required under the act.
The Political Reform Act of 1974, an initiative measure, provides that the Legislature may amend the act to further the act’s purposes upon a
2
/
3
vote of each house of the Legislature and compliance with
specified procedural requirements.
This bill would declare that it furthers the purposes of the act.
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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

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