SECTIONS 14420-14421 - California Statutes

ELECTIONS CODE

SECTION 14420-14421

14420. (a) As soon as the polls are closed, the precinct board
shall remove the voted ballots from the ballot container and take
them out of the secrecy envelopes or detach them from the secrecy
stubs. Where the envelope or stub is also the write-in ballot, and a
write-in vote has been registered thereon, the ballot card shall not
be separated from the envelope or stub. If two or more separate
ballot cards have been used in the election, the precinct board shall
sort them into groups, each of which shall contain the same series
of ballot cards.
(b) After completing the action described in subdivision (a), the
precinct board shall count the number of ballot cards in each group,
and certify the number of ballots cast on the voting roster as
provided by Section 14105. If there is any discrepancy between the
number of voters listed in the roster and the number of ballots
voted, this fact shall be noted with an explanation of the difference
and signed by all the members of the precinct board.

14421. The precinct board shall group voted ballot cards and voted
separate write-in ballots, as directed by the elections official, and
place them in containers. The board shall also place spoiled and
void ballots, if any, in containers as directed by the elections
official. All of these ballots, along with the containers for voted
ballot cards, shall be placed in one or more boxes, which shall then
be sealed and delivered as soon as possible to the receiving centers
or central counting places with the unused ballots, supplies, and
other materials as directed by the elections official.