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Designated returner

A person the voter chooses to return their completed mail ballot. Must deliver it within three days or by the close of polls.

Where this term appears

  • The Legislature's own analysis said out loud that campaign workers could now be the…Claim
  • Elections Code §3017 — Vote-by-mail return procedures (current law)Law
  • The Legislature loosens designated return — and deliberately keeps the campaign-worker banTimeline step
  • AB 306 (2018) — Returner deadlines and voter protection from returner paperwork failuresLaw
  • Today's law still contains both the 2016 opening (anyone the voter designates) and the…Claim
  • Helpers got a delivery deadline — and voters got protection from a helper's incomplete…Claim
  • AB 2080 (2012) — Designated ballot return without an illness requirementLaw
  • Returner deadlines arrive — with an observability tradeoffTimeline step
  • The composed system: what fifty years of changes add up toTimeline step

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