AB 925

Under current law, a municipal clerk may dispatch special voting deputies to

a residential care facility or qualified retirement home so that the occupants of the

facility or home may cast an absentee ballot in person with the special voting

deputies rather than vote in person at the appropriate polling place or request and

complete an absentee ballot by mail. Current law provides that the occupants of a

retirement home that is not a qualified retirement home may vote in person at the

appropriate polling place or request and complete an absentee ballot by mail. Under

current law, a retirement home is a facility occupied as a primary residence by ten

or more unrelated individuals. A qualified retirement home is a retirement home

that has a significant number of occupants who lack adequate transportation to the

polling place, need assistance in voting, are aged 60 or over, or are indefinitely

confined. Current law also requires that if a retirement home is located within a

municipality on the same grounds as one or more residential care facilities to which

special voting deputies are dispatched the management of the retirement home shall

provide the names and addresses of the home occupants to the clerk so that the

special voting deputies may verify which electors are eligible to cast absentee ballots

in person with the deputies.

This bill provides that if a retirement home that is not a qualified retirement

home is located within a municipality as part of a multiple-use facility consisting of

one or more qualified retirement homes or residential care facilities to which special

voting deputies are dispatched, the management of the retirement home must

provide the clerk with the names and addresses of the occupants of the home. The

clerk then provides the special voting deputies with the names and addresses of the

verified residents who are eligible to cast absentee ballots in person with the

deputies.