SECTIONS 8120-8125 - California Statutes

ELECTIONS CODE

SECTION 8120-8125

8120. At least 68 days before the direct primary, the Secretary of
State shall transmit to each county elections official a certified
list of candidates who are eligible to be voted for in his or her
county at the direct primary.

8121. (a) Not less than five days before he or she transmits the
certified list of candidates to the county elections officials, as
provided in Section 8120, the Secretary of State shall notify each
candidate for partisan office and voter-nominated office of the
names, addresses, offices, occupations, and party preferences of all
other persons who have filed for the same office.
(b) (1) Beginning not less than five days before he or she
transmits the certified list of candidates to the county elections
officials, as required by Section 8120, the Secretary of State shall
post, in a conspicuous place on his or her Internet Web site, the
party preference history of each candidate for voter-nominated office
for the preceding 10 years. The candidates' party preference history
shall be continuously posted until such time as the official canvass
is completed for the general or special election at which a
candidate is elected to the voter-nominated office sought, except
that, in the case of a candidate who participated in the primary
election and who was not nominated to participate in the general
election, the candidate's party preference history need not continue
to be posted following the completion of the official canvass for the
primary election in question.
(2) For purposes of this subdivision, the phrase "party preference
history" also refers to the candidate's history of party
registration during the 10 years preceding the effective date of this
section.
(3) The Secretary of State shall also conspicuously post on the
same web page as that containing the candidates' party preference
history the notice specified by of subdivision (b) of Section 9083.5.

8122. The Secretary of State shall certify and transmit the list of
candidates for nomination to each office according to Assembly
districts, in the order of arrangement prescribed in Chapter 2
(commencing with Section 13100) of Division 13. In the case of each
county containing more than one Assembly district, the Secretary of
State shall transmit separate lists for each Assembly district.

8123. The Secretary of State, at the time he or she transmits the
list of candidates to the county elections official, shall inform the
county elections official of the address of each candidate.

8124. The certified list of candidates sent to each county
elections official by the Secretary of State shall show all of the
following:
(a) The name of each candidate.
(b) The office for which each person is a candidate.
(c) With respect to candidates for partisan offices, the party
each person represents.
(d) With respect to candidates for voter-nominated offices, the
party preference designation specified in accordance with Section
8002.5.

8125. The certified list of candidates sent to each county
elections official by the Secretary of State shall be in a form
prescribed by the Secretary of State.