Glossary
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