SECTIONS 6520-6524 - California Statutes

ELECTIONS CODE

SECTION 6520-6524

6520. The Secretary of State shall place the name of a candidate
upon the American Independent Party presidential preference ballot
when the Secretary of State has determined that the candidate is
generally advocated for or recognized in the news media throughout
the United States or California as actively seeking the nomination of
the American Independent Party for President of the United States.
On or before the 120th day preceding a presidential primary
election, the Secretary of State shall publicly announce and
distribute to the news media for publication a list of the candidates
he or she intends to place on the ballot at the following
presidential primary election. Following this announcement he or she
may add candidates to his or her selection, but he or she may not
delete any candidate whose name appears on the announced list.

6521. When the Secretary of State decides to place the name of a
candidate on the ballot pursuant to Section 6520, he or she shall
notify the candidate that his or her name will appear on the ballot
of this state in the presidential primary.
The Secretary of State shall also notify the candidate that he or
she may withdraw his or her name from the ballot by filing with the
Secretary of State an affidavit pursuant to Section 6522, no later
than the 68th day before that election.

6522. If a selected candidate or an unselected candidate files with
the Secretary of State, no later than the 68th day before the
presidential primary, an affidavit stating without qualification that
he or she is not now a candidate for the office of President of the
United States at the forthcoming presidential primary election, his
or her name shall be omitted from the list of names certified by the
Secretary of State to the county elections officials for the ballot
and his or her name shall not appear on the presidential preference
portion of the primary ballot.

6523. Any unselected candidate desiring to have his or her name
placed on the presidential preference primary ballot without filing a
group of candidates for delegates, shall have nomination papers
circulated in his or her behalf. In order to qualify his or her name
for placement on the presidential preference primary ballot, the
candidate's nomination papers shall be signed by voters registered as
affiliated with the American Independent Party equal in number to
not less than 1 percent of the number of persons registered as
members of the American Independent Party as reflected in the report
of registration issued by the Secretary of State on the 135th day
preceding the presidential primary election.

6524. The name of any presidential candidate, to whom are pledged a
group of candidates who have qualified by petition for the delegate
selection portion of the presidential primary ballot, shall, in
addition, be automatically placed on the presidential preference
portion of the ballot, without the filing of a separate petition for
the presidential preference portion of the ballot.