list furnished by said landlord or keeper, under this section, may be cited to appear before the election commissioners within five days, in order to verify his right to vote. It shall be considered as a proper citation to such voter, if the citation is addressed to the name of the party registered, the number of room (if any room be named in his affidavit of registration) and place of registration; and if the party cited does not appear in answer to the citation at the time appointed, his name may be striken from the register of voters, or may be placed upon a special challenge list to be sent to the inspector of election in the precinct with directions to challenge the vote of such person if offered at the election, under subdivision 5 of section 1230 of the Political Code. Such citation may be served by mailing the same addressed as required in a sealed envelope with proper postage prepaid thereon, and the five days above mentioned shall begin to run two days after the deposit of such envelope in the mail. The landlord or keeper of premises from which the voter is registered shall also be cited to appear at the same time and place, at which the citation of his alleged lodger is returnable, and such citation may be served in the same manner as above provided for the citation to the voter. [Amendment approved May 1, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 1441.]

Citations. Cal. 157/318, 323.

Names of electors entered in duplicate.

§ 1095. In the affidavits of registration the clerk must, as hereinafter provided, enter in duplicate the names of the qualified electors of the county, and the provisions of section 1096 of this code are hereby declared to be mandatory. Any officer charged with the registration of voters who neglects or refuses to make all the entries provided for in section 1096 of the Political Code, or neglects or refuses to take the oath of the voter applying to him for registration in respect to the same, shall, upon conviction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor for each and every such omission. [Amendment approved April 12, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 889.]

5. The visible marks or scars, if any, and their location.

6. The country or state of nativity.

7. Political affiliation, if any.

8. The place of residence (giving ward and precinct); and in municipal corporations, by specifying the name of the street, avenue, or other location of the dwelling of such elector, with the number of such dwelling, if the same has a number, and if not, then with such descrip

tion of the place that it can be readily ascertained and identified. If the elector be not the proprietor or head of the house, then it must show that fact, and upon what floor thereof, and what room such elector occupies in such house.

9. If naturalized, the place of naturalization.

10. The date of the entry of each person.

11. The post office address.

12. 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 name, and whether or not the elector has any physical disability, by reason of which he cannot mark his ballot; and if he cannot mark his ballot by reason of physical disability, then the nature of such disability must be entered. [Amendment approved April 12, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 889.]

Qualifications for registration.

§ 1097. No person's name must be entered by the clerk unless:

1. Upon the production and filing of a certified copy of the judgment of the superior court directing such entry to be made.

2. If a naturalized citizen upon the production of his certificate of naturalization, which certificate must be issued ninety days prior to the succeeding election, or upon his affidavit that it is lost or out of his possession, which affidavit must state the place of his nativity, and the time and place of his naturalization, together with his affidavit that he has resided in the United States for five years, and in this state for one year next preceding the time of application, and that he would be an elector of the county or city and county at the next succeeding election; provided, however, if such naturalized citizen shall have been previously registered as a qualified elector in any of the counties or cities and counties of this state, and shall produce a certificate of such registration, issued by the party authorized by law to issue such certificate, which shall recite the time and place of naturalization of such elector, such certificate shall be prima facie evidence of his naturalization. In the event that such naturalized citizen shall state in his affidavit that he was naturalized in the county or city and county in which he seeks to register, or in the event that he was previously registered within the preceding eight years within the county or city and county in which he seeks to register, and his certificate of naturalization has not been revoked, he shall not be required to produce his certificate of naturalization, nor to make such affidavit of lost certificate in lieu thereof, provided, however, that in any county or city and county where the affidavits of registration have been destroyed by fire or conflagration, or other public calamity, the above stated provision as to previous registration within the preceding eight years shall in such county or city and county, apply only for such number of years past as there shall exist a record of previous registration, and not to exceed in any event said eight years.

3. If born in a foreign country, upon his affidavit that he became a citizen of the United States by virtue of the naturalization of his father while he was residing in the United States, and under the age of twenty-one years, and that he is or would be an elector of the county at the next ensuing election.

4. In all other cases, upon the affidavit of the party that he is or will be an elector of the county at the next succeeding election. Such affidavit must be made before the county clerk or officer charged with the registration of voters, or their deputy. If any elector is absent from the county in which he claims residence, he 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 make and subscribe an affidavit as to his residence, specifying in what ward or precinct he claims residence; that he 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 section 1096 of the Political Code of the state of California, and forward such affidavit, 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 city and county. Upon receipt of such affidavit by such clerk or registrar of voters within the time allowed by law for registration, it shall entitle the name of such elector to be entered by the clerk in the proper register in such precinct.

5. In every case the affidavit of the party must show all the facts required to be stated in the entry on the register, except the date of the entry. [Amendment approved May 1, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 1442.]

Cancellation of entry.

§ 1105. Cancellation is made by writing on the affidavit of registration, the word "Canceled" and the reason therefor. [Amendment approved April 12, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 890.]

Cancellation of registration of persons convicted of infamous crimes. § 1106a. In any county or city and county where there shall be a registrar of voters, the county clerk of such county or city and county shall furnish to such registrar of voters before the first day of September of each year, a statement taken from the records of the courts having jurisdiction in cases of infamous crimes and the embezzlement or misappropriation of public moneys within his county, showing the names of all persons appearing from such records to have been convicted of an infamous crime, or of the embezzlement or misappropriation of public money, in such court during the year prior to such first day of September, and which conviction shall have been carried into effect, and such registrar of voters shall thereupon during the first week of September in each year, cancel the affidavits of registration of such persons. The county clerk shall certify the said statement under the seal of his office. [New section approved May 1, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 1442.]

Compelling registration.

§ 1108. If the clerk refuses to register any qualified elector in the eounty, such elector may proceed by action in the superior court to compel such registration. [Amendment approved April 12, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 890.]

Compelling cancellation.

§ 1109. Any person may proceed by action in the superior court to compel the clerk to cancel any registration made illegally, or that ought to be canceled by reason of facts that have occurred subsequent to the time of such registration; but if the person whose name is sought to be canceled be not a party to the action, the court may order him to be made a party defendant. [Amendment approved April 12, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 890.]

Clerk to arrange affidavits of registration by precincts.

§ 1113. Within five days after the last day of registration, the clerk shall arrange the affidavits of registration for each precinct alphabetically by surnames, and number the same, beginning with one in each ease, and bind the same, or cause them to be bound, into a book by fastening the left-hand edges together with a staple, wire, thread or other suitable material; he shall at the same time treat the duplicate affidavits of registration in the same manner. [Amendment approved April 12, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 891.]

Indexing and binding great register.

§ 1115. Within five days after the binding of said books the clerk shall prepare an index of each book, said index to contain the numbers, names, ages, occupations, addresses, and political affiliations as they appear in said books, and shall have at least one hundred copies of said index printed. The clerk shall have bound together in one or more volumes, a general index of said books arranged alphabetically by preeinet, and shall keep at least one copy of said general index in his office for public reference. [Amendment approved April 12, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 891.]

Evidence that person is an elector.

§ 1117. A certified copy of an uncanceled affidavit of registration is prima facie evidence that the person named in the entry is an elector of the county. [Amendment approved April 12, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 891.]

Primary elections, qualifications and registration of voters at. § 1118. [Repealed May 1, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 1392.]

Primary elections. Registration office to be open fifty days. § 1119. [Repealed May 1, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 1392.]

Qualifications of voters.

§ 1120. All persons shall be entitled to vote at the elections mentioned in section 1044 of this code, who come within the terms or comply with the requirements of this section. Every person who was a qualified elector at the general state election immediately preceding the holding of any of the elections mentioned in section 1044 of this code, and who was registered as required by law as a qualified elector of any one of the precincts which together compose the special election or consolidated precincts, and who continues to reside within the exterior boundaries of such special election or consolidated election precinct, until the time of the holding of the election provided for and held under said section 1044, shall be entitled to vote at said election, without other or additional registration. All other persons, in order to be entitled to vote at any of the elections provided for in said section 1044, must be registered in the manner required by sections 1094, 1096 and 1097 of this code, as an elector of and within one of the precincts which compose the special election or consolidated precinct wherein he claims to be entitled to vote. Such registration must be made and had in accordance with the provisions of sections 1094, 1096 and 1097 of the Political Code; provided, that such registration shall be in progress at all times except during the thirty days immediately preceding any such municipal or special election held under said section 1044 of this code. [Amendment approved May 1, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 1392.]

Appointment of election boards. Names. Canvass votes. Persons not eligible. Misdemeanor.

§ 1142. When an election is ordered, the board of supervisors, or other board having charge and control of elections in each of the counties, and cities and counties, of the state must appoint officers of election board from the registered electors of each precinct whose names appear upon the last assessment-roll of the county or city and county to serve as election officers only in the election precinct in which they are registered and actually reside to constitute the election board for such precinct, which shall consist of two inspectors, two judges, two clerks and two ballot clerks; the inspectors, judges, clerks and ballot clerks to be apportioned equally between the two political parties which, respectively, cast the highest and next highest number of votes for governor at the last general election; the inspectors, judges, clerks and ballot clerks so appointed shall constitute a board of election for such precinct.

And such board of supervisors or other board having charge of elections must publish the names of such electors who constitute the board of elections for such election precinct, in some newspaper published in the county or city and county where the election is to be held for five successive days at least one week before the day such election is to be held; or in a weekly paper published in the county, for the two successive weeks prior to the election.

Such board of election shall canvass the votes for such precinct, and must be present at the closing of the polls The members of said board shall