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TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
FROM: Contra
Phil Batchelor, County Administrator COSta
DATE: April 15, 1985 County
SUBJECT: Mailing of Affidavit of Registration
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION;
Acknowledge receipt of report from County Administrator, in
response to Board referral of February 19, 1985.
BACKGROUND:
• On February 19 , 1985, at the request of Supervisor Fanden, the
Board referred to our office concerns which had been expressed
because the Elections Office mailed Affidavits of Registration
to some residences in the County. Concerns expressed included
why this was being done, even though the residents had lived at
the same address for some time.
Elections Code Section 800 requires the County Clerk to mail a
nonforwardable postcard to each registered voter in the County
prior to the primary election. If the postcard is returned
indicating the person has moved and left no forwarding address ,
or for whom the forwarding address is outside the County, the
County Clerk is required by Elections Code Section 801 to
cancel the person' s registration.
Elections Code Sections 801(b) and 803 then require the County
Clerk to immediately mail a blank affidavit of registration "to
the addresses -for which the voter registrations were
canceled. . . "
The idea behind this procedure, of course, is to try to contact
the person who has moved into the address from which a voter
registration affidavit has been canceled so that the new
resident has an opportunity to register to vote. What the law
does not take into account is an instance where, for instance,
an adult child who has been registered to vote moves out of
his/her parents ' home. In this case, the postcard will be
returned, the person' s affidavit of registration will be
canceled, and a blank affidavit of registration must be mailed
to that address, even though the adult child' s parents may
still live at that address.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE: llT
X RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
X APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(S)
ACTION OF BOARD ON pry I ZJ, 1985 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED _2(— OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
UNANIMOUS (ABSENT ' ) 1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
AYES: NOES: AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
County Administrator
CC: County Clerk ATTESTED
Assistant County Registrar
PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
M3e2/7-e9 BY DEPUTY
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In both of the cases brought to our attention, the postcard was
returned by the Post Office, and it is entirely possible that
this was an adult .child who had moved out of his/her parents '
home.
It is important to emphasize that affidavits are not mailed to
all residences; only to addresses where a registered voter has
moved away from that address.
The County Clerk appears to be complying with the requirements
of State law in the procedures he is following. I plan to
write to the two individuals who complained and explain this
procedure.