Elections: redistricting information

The law gives the Legislature and its designees more complete, usable election and mapping data for redistricting. It also restricts disclosure of detailed results from very small precincts to help preserve secret ballots.

What the law does ​

• Requires county elections officials to send the Secretary of State complete, unredacted precinct election returns, including registered-voter counts and mail, polling-place, and total vote counts.
• Requires counties to provide the Legislature or its designee with precinct maps, precinct-level returns, and a street index that links addresses to precincts for redistricting.
• Requires the Legislature or its designee and the Secretary of State to create a secure electronic submission process using specified machine-readable formats.
• Makes precinct-level unredacted returns submitted for redistricting confidential and bars public posting or disclosure of contest results from precincts with fewer than 10 voters.
• Allows limited disclosure for those small precincts: the total number of voters and voting totals by political party preference.
• Requires the Secretary of State, on request, to provide the Legislature or its designee with a county’s returns if the county did not submit them through the redistricting process.

Who it affects ​

• County elections officials.
• The Legislature and its redistricting designees.
• The Secretary of State.
• Voters in precincts where fewer than 10 people cast ballots.

Context ​

California must maintain a complete, accurate redistricting database and provide public access to redistricting data.