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§ 1094. Registration every two years. Transfers. Elections held between January 1 and April 1 of even-numbered years. Affidavits of registration deemed canceled. Registration outside of main office. List of lodgers. Challenge of voters not on certified list of lodgers. There shall be, commencing January 1, 1918, and every two years thereafter, except as hereinafter provided, in each county and city and county of the state, a new and complete registration of the voters of such county or city and county, who are entitled thereto. Such registration shall be in progress at all times except during the thirty days immediately preceding any election, when it shall cease for such election as to electors residing in the territory within which such election is to be held; and transfers of registration for such election may be made from one precinct to another precinct in the same county or city and county at any time when such registration shall be in progress in the precinct to which the elector seeks to transfer; provided, that where any general or special municipal election, or any other special election, including any primary election and all special elections to vote for officers, or upon or for or against any proposition or question authorized to be submitted to a vote, is held on or after the first day of January and before the first day of April of any even-numbered year, the original affidavits of registration and indexes used in the last general state election in any county or city and county in this state, together with the original affidavits of registration since the last election, and supplemental indexes, showing all additional registrations, changes and corrections made since the registration for the last general election, completed to and including the thirty-first day prior to said election then being held, may be used at such election to determine the persons entitled to vote thereat. All affidavits of registration made prior to the first day of January of any even-numbered year shall be deemed canceled upon said day except for the sole purpose of being used as hereinbefore stated at elections held thereafter and before the first day of April of that year, and shall on said last-mentioned day be deemed canceled for all purposes. The board having charge and control of elections in each county or city and county, may provide by resolution, for the registration of voters in their respective precincts, by the officer charged with the registration of voters, and may also provide by resolu tion for the registration of voters at specified times and places, other than the office of the county clerk or registrar of voters, deemed most convenient to large numbers of voters, without reference to respective or particular precincts, in such a manner that the affidavits of regis tration as provided by law may be taken at such time and place, of any voter within the county who is entitled to register therein; provided, however, that in any city and county no registration outside of the main office of the officer charged with the registration of voters shall be had except that which is without reference to particular precincts as last specified herein; and provided, also, that any registration which may be made at the main office for registration in any such city and county may be made and taken in any place in said city and county in such manner as may be provided by rules and regulations made by the board having control of registration in any such city and county. Upon the written request of the officer charged with the registration of

voters, which request said officer shall make upon petition from any ten electors of the county, such petition to specify the premises from which lists are desired, every landlord or keeper of premises where lodgers abide, shall furnish said officer a list of all lodgers occupying rooms, or sleeping apartments, or beds in the premises under his or her or its control. Such lists shall be furnished upon blanks provided by said officer. Any landlord or keeper of premises where lodgers abide, who neglects or refuses to comply promptly with the provisions of this section or who furnishes a false list of such lodgers, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. All lists so returned shall be kept on file in the office of the officer receiving same, open to public inspection. It shall be the duty of said officer to compile a list of such persons, if there are any, who are registered as residing in any of these premises and whose names are not returned in the lists furnished by the landlord or keeper thereof. At least three days before the date of the next succeeding election, in any precinct where such premises are located, said officer shall send by registered mail to the inspector of election in said precinct a certified copy of the list he has thus prepared, with instructions to challenge the vote of each and all such persons if offered at the election, under subdivision five of section one thousand two hundred thirty of the Political Code. Whenever in the laws of this state the word "register" or "great register" is used with relation to elections, it shall be deemed to mean and include the relative and proper affidavits of registration, or both thereof, prepared and bound by the county clerk or registrar of voters. [Amendment approved May 21, 1917; Stats. 1917, p. 798.]

§ 1096. Qualifications for registration. Additional facts to be shown. The affant making the affidavit of registration must be at least twentyone years of age at the time of the next succeeding election; a citizen of the United States ninety days prior to such election; a resident of the state one year, of the county ninety days, and of the precinct thirty days next preceding such election and the affidavit must show such facts. It shall also show:

1. The name at length, including Christian or given name, and middle name, or initial, if any, said Christian or given name, if the name of a woman, to be preceded in all cases by the designation of Miss or Mrs., as the case may be.

2. The place of residence and postoffice address with sufficient particularity to identify the same and determine therefrom the voting precinct of such affiant. If the elector be not the proprietor or head of the house, or the wife or husband of such proprietor, then it must show upon what floor thereof, and what room such elector occupies in such house.

3. The occupation of affiant.

4. The height of affiant in feet and inches.

5. The country or state of nativity of affiant.

6. If foreign born, how citizenship was acquired; whether by citizenship of father, by provisions of a treaty or act of congress, by order of a court of naturalization, by marriage to a citizen, by naturalization of a parent or husband, or otherwise. The date or year when, and the

place or state where affiant became a citizen, shall be shown, except in the case of citizenship acquired by citizenship or naturalization of parents, by treaty, or by act of congress. When citizenship depends upon the citizenship or naturalization of parent or husband the name of such parent or husband shall appear.

7. The fact whether or not the elector desiring to be registered is able to read the constitution in the English language and to write his or her name, and whether or not the elector has any physical disability, by reason of which he or she can not mark the ballot; and if he or she can not mark the ballot by reason of physical disability, then the nature of such disability must be entered. The affiart, if able to write, shall sign such affidavit with his or her customary signature and the county elerk or registrar before whom such affidavit is made shall insert therein the date of such affidavit, which shall be the date of the jurat. The affiant may state in such affidavit the name of any political party or organization with which he intends to affiliate at the ensuing primary election, whether or not such party or organization is a party or organization qualified, at the time of such registration, to participate in such primary election according to the provisions of the direct primary law. [Amendment approved May 29, 1917; Stats. 1917, p. 1334.]

§ 1096a. Declaration of political party. Change of political affiliation. Affidavit. At the time of registering and of transferring registration, in all places where the primary election law is in force, each elector shall declare the name of the political party with which he intends to affiliate at the ensuing primary election or elections, and the name of such political party shall be stated in the affidavit of registration and the index thereto. If the elector declines to state the fact, the fact of such declination shall likewise be stated and no person shall be entitled to vote the ticket of any political party at any primary election, by virtue of such registration, unless he has stated the name of the political party with which he intends to affiliate at the time of such registration. Nor shall he be permitted to vote on behalf of any party or for delegates to the convention of any party other than the party so designated in the registration.

In case any elector shall have declined to designate or shall have changed his political affiliation prior to the close of registration for primary elections he is entitled to have such change recorded prior to the elose of said registration upon application to the county clerk or registrar of voters as hereinafter provided. In case any elector shall have declined to designate or shall have changed his political affiliations prior to the close of registration, he may appear in person before the county clerk or registrar of voters, or any registration deputy of said county clerk or registrar of voters, and make affidavit substantially in the following form:

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that since the date of such registration he has changed his political views and in good faith declares his affiliation with Subscribed and sworn to before me, this The county clerk or registrar of voters shall take such affidavit without charge and shall file the same. [New section added May 29, 1917; Stats. 1917, p. 1335.]

§ 1097. Affidavit of registration. If elector is absent from residence. Subdivision 1. No person shall be registered as an elector except by affidavit of registration. Such affidavit must be made before the county clerk or officer charged with the registration of voters, or their deputy or registration clerk and shall set forth all the facts required to be shown in sections one thousand ninety-six and one thousand ninety-seven of the Political Code. If an elector is absent from the county in which he or she claims residence, he or she may appear before any judge or clerk of any court of record, or notary public, or if in a foreign country, before any minister, consul, or vice-consul of the United States, and may make and subscribe an affidavit as to his or her residence, specifying in what ward or precinct he or she claims residence; that he or she will be necessarily and unavoidably absent from said county, or city and county, on all the days allowed by law for general registration of electors, and setting forth in such affidavit each and all the matters required by sections one thousand ninety-six and one thousand ninetyseven of the Political Code of the state of California, and forward such affidavit, in duplicate, duly authenticated as above, by mail, inclosed in an envelope addressed to the county clerk of any county, or the registrar of voters in any county or city and county in which he or she claims to be an elector. Upon receipt of such affidavit by such clerk or registrar of voters within the time allowed by law for registration, the said affidavit shall be entered and bound by the clerk in the proper register in such precinct.

Subd. 2. Conditions of registering foreign born. No foreign-born person shall be registered unless:

(a) If a naturalized citizen upon the production of his or her certificate of naturalization or upon the production of a certificate of registration in the county of his or her last residence in the state, showing the date and place of naturalization, or upon his or her affidavit stating date and place of naturalization; provided, that any person registering for the first time in the state must produce his or her certificate of naturalization.

(b) If a citizen by virtue of his or her father being a citizen at the time of his or her birth, upon his or her sworn statement that his or her father was a citizen of the United States at the time of his or her birth and has been a resident thereof. Such statement need not be noted in full upon the affidavit of registration, but the words "I acquired citizenship by the citizenship of my father (naming him)" shall be sufficient. (c) If a citizen by virtue of the naturalization of his or her parent, upon his or her affidavit that he or she became a citizen by such naturalization of his or her parent, naming such parent, that such naturalization took place during his or her minority and that he or she began to reside permanently in the United States while such minor child. Such state

ment need not be noted in full upon the affidavit, but the words "I ac

quired citizenship by my father's, or mother's, naturalization," as the ease may be, naming him or her, shall be sufficient.

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(d) If a citizen by virtue of marriage to a citizen, the date and place of such marriage shall be entered upon the affidavit of registration together with the name of the husband.

(e) If a citizen by virtue of the naturalization of her husband the date or year and place of such naturalization together with the name of the husband shall be entered.

Subd. 3. Affidavit must show all facts required. Substitutions permitted. Manner of printing. Width. Type. Form. In every case the affidavit of the party must show all the facts required to be stated. The clerk or registrar of voters may cause to be written or printed upon the margin of the affidavit, in addition to any matter hereinafter provided for, all such words as are deemed necessary or convenient for the purpose of designating the precinct, district or political subdivision for which such affidavit is taken, or deemed necessary or convenient to indieate any removal or transfer of registration, and also any date or memorandum deemed necessary or convenient to indicate the number of the ballot voted by an elector as provided by section one thousand two hundred four of the Political Code, or any other reasonable memoranda deemed necessary or convenient for the purpose of enabling such clerk or registrar of voters to perform his duties in the assorting or classification or handling of such affidavits with correctness and dispatch. Whereever in the following form of affidavit the word "county" is inserted, if the affidavit is for use in a city and county, such last mentioned words may be printed or written in lieu of said word "county." In connection with the place of residence the affidavit may have printed either the word "precinct" or the word "street" or the word "avenue," or any or all of such words as the clerk or registrar of voters shall deem most convenient in practical use for the territory in which such affidavits are to be used. In designating the residence of the voter or the postoffice address it shall not be necessary in either case to repeat the county or city and county or state where the name of said county or city and county or state previously appear. In connection with the statement regarding the citizenship of affiant, the affidavit may have printed in brackets statements of the various methods of acquiring citizenship, and it shall be sufficient to underline, or otherwise mark, with pen and ink, or indelibie pencil, that statement applicable to the particular affiant. The words printed in the body of the affidavit, which by reason of statement of the voter are not applicable to such registration, shall not be deemed a portion of such affidavit of registration. The lines to indicate the separation between the margin of the affidavit of registration and the said margin shall be at the top and on the right side of such affidavit, and may be double or single lines in the discretion of the clerk or registrar of voters of the county or city and county or territory for which the affidavit is to be used. The affidavit shall be printed in horizontal lines. Wherever any blank space is left in any line for the entry of any matter the lines shall not be less than one-third of an inch apart vertically. Commencing with the first statement of the affidavit proper each statement shall be numbered immediately at the left of such state

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