SECTIONS 15500-15505 - California Statutes

ELECTIONS CODE

SECTION 15500-15505

15500. The Secretary of State, commencing with the first results
from the semifinal official canvass received from the elections
officials, shall compile the results for the offices and measures
listed in Section 15151, which compilation shall be continued without
adjournment until completed. The Secretary of State shall
immediately make public the results of the compilation as to those
offices and measures. The Secretary of State also shall compile and
make those results reported pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section
15375 available to any person or organization upon request.

15501. (a) Except as to presidential electors, the Secretary of
State shall compile the results for all of the following:
(1) All candidates for statewide office.
(2) All candidates for Assembly, State Senate, Congress, State
Board of Equalization, Supreme Court, and Courts of Appeal.
(3) All statewide measures.
(b) The Secretary of State shall prepare, certify, and file a
statement of the vote from the compiled results no later than the
38th day after the election.
(c) The Secretary of State may gather returns for local elections,
including, but not limited to, the following:
(1) Candidates for county office.
(2) Candidates for city office.
(3) Candidates for school and district office.
(4) County ballot measures.
(5) City ballot measures.
(6) School and district ballot measures.

15502. Within 120 days of the filing of the statement of the vote,
the Secretary of State, upon the basis of the information provided,
shall compile a supplement to the statement of the vote, showing the
number of votes cast in each county, city, Assembly district,
senatorial district, congressional district and supervisorial
district for each candidate for the offices of presidential elector,
Governor, and United States Senator, depending on the offices to be
filled, and on each statewide ballot proposition. A copy of this
supplement shall be made available, upon request, to any elector of
this state.

15503. On the 38th day after the election, or as soon within that
time as the returns have been received from the entire state or a
congressional district, as the case may be, the Secretary of State
shall determine the votes cast for candidates for Senator and
Representative and certify to the persons having the highest number
of votes for the respective offices as duly elected.

15504. The Secretary of State shall make out and deliver, or
transmit by mail, a certificate of election or nomination to each
person elected or nominated.

15505. No later than the 32nd day following the election, the
Secretary of State shall analyze the votes given for presidential
electors, and certify to the Governor the names of the proper number
of persons having the highest number of votes. The Secretary of State
shall thereupon issue and transmit to each presidential elector a
certificate of election. The certificate shall be accompanied by a
notice of the time and place of the meeting of the presidential
electors and a statement that each presidential elector will be
entitled to a per diem allowance and mileage in the amounts
specified.