Attorney General No.

SA2001RF0036

Secretary of State No.

936

Description

ELECTION DAY VOTER REGISTRATION. INITIATIVE STATUTE. Allows persons who are legally eligible to vote and have valid identification to register to vote on election day at their ‘polling place. Increases criminal penalty for voter and voter registration fraud. Makes conspiracy to commit voter fraud a crime. Requires trained staff at polling places to manage election day registration. Creates fund to implement measure, including training and providing personnel for election day registration. Allows persons to register or re-register during 28 days preceding election day at their local elections office. Provides more time to county election officials to prepare voter registration lists. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local governments: This measure would result annually in about $6 million in state costs and no net costs to counties.

Proponents

Lance Olson, Olson Hagel Waters & Fishburn LLP, 555 Capitol Mall, Suite 1425, Sacramento, CA 95814-4602, (916) 442-2942; Vigo G. Nielsen, Jr., Neilsen Merksamer, et al., 599 Redwood Hwy, Suite 4000, Mill Valley, CA 94941, (415) 389-6800

Date

12-19-2001

Document Type

Initiative

Qualified

Qualified

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