Elections: notice

AB 1610 requires county elections officials to give voters targeted notice and update records when a separate mailing address becomes invalid.

The law adds procedures intended to keep voter mailing information current while notifying voters before changes affect their registration status.

What the law does

Requires officials to update a voter’s mailing address and send a forwardable confirmation notice when postal change-of-address data provides a new mailing address.
Requires officials, when no new mailing address is available but mail can reach the voter’s residence, to notify the voter there and remove the invalid mailing address.
Requires officials, when no new address is available and mail cannot reach the residence, to send a forwardable address-confirmation notice and mark the registration inactive.
Bars officials from making a registration inactive merely because they sent a notice confirming an updated mailing address.
Provides for state reimbursement if the Commission on State Mandates finds the added county duties create reimbursable state-mandated costs.

Registered voters whose mailing address differs from their residence address and is reported invalid by postal change-of-address data.
County elections officials responsible for voter-registration records and notices.

The law applies when United States Postal Service change-of-address data shows that a voter’s separate mailing address is no longer valid.