Elections in 2026 through 2029

The law aims to reduce disruption, intimidation, and interference at voting locations while giving voters more time to use ballot drop boxes. It takes effect immediately but its election rules expire January 1, 2031.

What the law does ​

• Requires vote-by-mail ballot drop-off locations to be open during regular business hours starting at least 30 days before election day through election day.
• Bars law-enforcement officers from making arrests within 200 feet of an open polling place on election day, except for polling-place disruptions or crimes against people or property.
• Lets county boards of supervisors expand the no-electioneering zone from 100 feet to up to 200 feet around specified voting locations, if applied uniformly countywide.
• Requires law-enforcement officers to report suspected, planned, or actual violations of the arrest and electioneering restrictions to the Secretary of State and Attorney General.
• Lets county elections officials extend polling-place hours after qualifying disruptions; votes cast during the extension must be provisional ballots kept separate from other provisional ballots.
• Allows state and local governments to set reasonable restrictions for polling places on their property.

Who it affects ​

• Voters using polling places, curbside voting areas, and vote-by-mail ballot drop-off locations.
• County elections officials and county boards of supervisors.
• Law-enforcement officers and people engaged in electioneering near voting locations.

Context ​

The rules apply to regular and special elections beginning with the November 3, 2026, statewide general election through elections held or proclaimed in 2029.