SECTIONS 6400-6406 - California Statutes

ELECTIONS CODE

SECTION 6400-6406

6400. Each section of a nomination paper shall be returned by the
circulator who circulated it to the candidate or his or her designee.
All the sections circulated in any county shall be collected by the
candidate or his or her designee and he or she shall arrange and
leave the sections with the county elections official for
examination.

6401. Prior to filing, the sections of a nomination paper for a
candidate shall be numbered in order.

6402. Nomination papers, properly assembled, may be consolidated
and fastened together by counties, but nomination papers signed by
voters in different counties shall not be thus fastened together.

6403. The county elections official shall examine all nomination
papers left with him or her for examination and shall disregard and
mark "not sufficient" the name of any voter of his or her county
which does not appear in the same handwriting on an affidavit of
registration in the office of the county elections official. He or
she shall also disregard and mark "not sufficient" the name of any
voter of his or her county who has not stated his or her intention to
affiliate with the Republican Party.

6404. Within five days after any nomination papers are left with
him or her for examination, the county elections official shall:
(a) Examine and affix to them a certificate reciting that he or
she has examined them and stating the number of names which have not
been marked "not sufficient."
(b) Transmit the papers with the certificate of examination to the
Secretary of State, who shall file the papers.

6405. The county elections official's certificate to nomination
papers of a candidate shall be in substantially the following form:

COUNTY ELECTION OFFICIAL'S CERTIFICATE
TO
NOMINATION PAPERS OF A
CANDIDATE
To the Secretary of
State:
I, County Elections Official of the County of
____, hereby
certify that I have examined the nomination
papers, to which this
certificate is attached, of the candidate for
the ensuing presidential
primary, and that the number of names which I
have not marked
"not sufficient" is ____.
The candidate named in the nomination papers is
____.
Dated this ____ day of ____, 19_.
__________________, County Elections
Official
By,_________________________, Deputy

6406. No filing fee is required from any person to be voted for at
a presidential primary.