Green Party Presidential Primary in the California Elections Code

The following text from the California Elections Code governs the Green Party of California's presidential primary
 
CHAPTER  5. Green Party Presidential Primary
Article  1. General Provisions
 
6850. This chapter applies to the presidential primary ballot of the Green Party only. As used in this chapter, “Green Party” means the Green Party of California.
 
6850.5. The Green Party presidential primary ballot shall express the presidential preference of California voters who vote in the Green Party primary. National convention delegates shall be selected as provided for in the bylaws and the rules and procedures of the Green Party and pursuant to the rules of the national political party with which the Green Party is affiliated. 
 
6850.7.  A filing fee shall not be required from a person to be voted for in a Green Party presidential primary.
 
Article  2. Qualification of Candidates for Presidential Preference Portion of Primary Ballot
 
6851. The Secretary of State shall place the name of a candidate upon the Green Party presidential preference ballot when the Secretary of State has determined that the candidate is generally advocated for or recognized throughout the United States or California as actively seeking the presidential nomination of the Green Party or the national political party with which the Green Party is affiliated.
 
6851.5. On or before the 150th day preceding a presidential primary election, the Secretary of State shall send a letter by first-class mail to the Green Party Liaison to the Secretary of State informing her or him that, while a response is not required, any information she or he wishes to submit will be considered by the Secretary of State in the determination of candidates to be placed on the Green Party presidential preference primary ballot pursuant to Section 6851.
 
6852. On or before the 120th day preceding a presidential primary election, the Secretary of State shall publicly announce and distribute to the news media for publication a list of the candidates she or he intends to place on the ballot at the following presidential primary election. Following this announcement, the Secretary of State may add candidates to her or his selection, but she or he may not delete any candidate whose name appears on the announced list. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of the list and any subsequent additions to the list to the Green Party Liaison to the Secretary of State.
 
6852.5. When the Secretary of State decides to place the name of a candidate on the ballot pursuant to Sections 6851 and 6852, the Secretary of State shall notify the candidate that her or his name will appear on the Green Party presidential preference primary ballot.
 
6853. If a selected candidate or an unselected candidate files with the Secretary of State, no later than the 68th day before the presidential primary, an affidavit stating without qualification that she or he is not a candidate for the office of President of the United States at the forthcoming presidential primary election, the name of that candidate shall be omitted from the list of names certified by the Secretary of State to the elections official for the ballot and the name of that candidate shall not appear on the presidential preference portion of the primary ballot.
 
6853.5. An unselected candidate desiring to have her or his name placed on the presidential preference primary ballot shall have nomination papers circulated on her or his behalf. In order to qualify the name of that candidate for placement on the presidential preference primary ballot, the nomination papers of the candidate shall be signed by voters registered as preferring the Green Party equal in number to not less than 1 percent of the number of persons registered as preferring the Green Party as reflected in the report of registration issued by the Secretary of State on the 135th day before the presidential primary election.
 
Article  3. Preparation, Circulation, and Filing of Nominating Papers
 
6854. This article applies to the nomination of a Green Party candidate for the presidential primary ballot.
 
6854.5. Nomination papers properly prepared, circulated, signed, and verified shall be left, for examination, with the elections official of the county in which they are circulated at least 74 days before the presidential primary.
 
6855. Each signer of a nomination paper for the presidential primary ballot may sign only one paper. The signer shall add her or his printed name and place of residence indicating city and giving the street and number, if any.
 
6855.5. A nomination paper may be presented in sections. Each section shall contain the name of the presidential preference candidate. Each section shall bear the name of the county in which it is circulated. Only voters of the county registered as preferring the Green Party are competent to sign.
 
6856. Each section shall be prepared with the lines for signatures numbered, and shall have attached the declaration of the circulator who obtained signatures to it, which shall meet all of the requirements of Section 104. No other declaration is required to be made.
 
6856.5. A verified nomination paper is prima facie evidence that the signatures are genuine and that the persons signing it are voters registered as preferring the Green Party until it is otherwise proven by comparison of the signatures with the affidavits of registration in the office of the elections official.
 
6857. The nomination paper for a candidate for the presidential preference portion of the ballot shall be in substantially the following form:
SECTION OF NOMINATION PAPER SIGNED BY VOTER ON 
BEHALF OF PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE PRIMARY CANDIDATE
 
Section ____________Page ____________
 
County of __________.
Nomination paper of a presidential preference candidate for the Green Party presidential primary ballot.
 
State of California
County of 
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⎰
ss.
 
SIGNER’S STATEMENT
 
I, the undersigned, am a voter of the County of ____________, State of California, and am registered as preferring the Green Party. I hereby nominate ____________ for the presidential preference portion of the Green Party’s presidential primary ballot, to be voted for at the presidential primary to be held on the____________ day of ____________, 20____. I have not signed the nomination paper of any other candidate for the same office.
 
Number_________Signature_________Printed name_________Residence
 
 1. 
 2. 
 3. 
etc.
 
CIRCULATOR’S DECLARATION
 
I, ________, affirm all of the following:
1.That I am 18 years of age or older.
2.That my residence address, including street number, is
.
 [If no street or number exists, a designation of my residence adequate to readily ascertain its location is
.]
3.That I secured signatures in the County of ________ to the nomination paper of a candidate in the presidential preference primary of the Green Party, that all the signatures on this section of the nomination paper numbered from 1 to ______, inclusive, were made in my presence, that the signatures were obtained between ____________, 20__, and ____________, 20__, and that to the best of my knowledge and belief each signature is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be.
I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.
Executed at ________, California, this ____ day of ____, 20__.
[Signed] ______________________________
Circulator
[Printed Name] _____________________________
6857.5. Before filing, the sections of a nomination paper for a candidate shall be numbered in order.
 
6858. Nomination papers, properly assembled, may be consolidated and fastened together by counties, but nomination papers signed by voters in different counties shall not be fastened together.
 
6858.5. The elections official shall examine all nomination papers left with her or him for examination and shall disregard and mark “not sufficient” the name of any voter of that county that does not appear in the same handwriting on an affidavit of registration in the office of the elections official. The elections official shall also disregard and mark “not sufficient” the name of any voter of the county who is not registered as preferring the Green Party.
 
6859. Within five days after any nomination papers are left with the elections official for examination, the elections official shall do both of the following:
(a) Examine and affix to them a certificate reciting that she or he has examined them and stating the number of names that have not been marked “not sufficient.”
(b) Transmit the papers with the certificate of examination to the Secretary of State, who shall file the papers.
 
6859.5. The certificate of the elections official to nomination papers of a candidate shall be in substantially the following form:
CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY ELECTIONS OFFICIAL TO NOMINATION
PAPERS OF A CANDIDATE
 
To the Secretary of State:
 
I, County Elections Official of the County of ______, hereby certify that I have examined the nomination papers, to which this certificate is attached, of the presidential candidate, and that the number of names which I have not marked “not sufficient” is _______.
The candidate named in the nomination papers is comprised of the following:
_______________________________________________________
 
Dated this ________ day of ________, 20___.
 
________________________
(SEAL)
County Elections Official
By Deputy
6860. Upon receipt of a sufficient number of signatures for the nomination of a candidate for the presidential preference primary ballot, the Secretary of State shall notify the candidate or her or his duly authorized representative of that fact.
 
Article  4. Green Party Presidential Primary Ballot
 
6861. Following the filing of nomination papers, the presidential preference primary candidates shall be printed upon the ballot.
 
6861.5. For the presidential primary election, the format of the Green Party ballot shall be governed by Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 13100) of Division 13, with the following exceptions:
(a) The heading “Presidential Candidate Preference” shall be included.
(b) Selected and unselected presidential candidates shall be listed below the heading specified in subdivision (a).
(c) The instructions to voters shall begin with the words “Vote for a candidate.” The instructions to voters shall also include the statement that “Delegates to the national convention will be selected after the primary election.”
 
6862. A person who believes her or his name may be used as a write-in candidate for President of the United States shall, no later than 21 days before the primary election, file an endorsement of her or his write-in candidacy with the Secretary of State, or no votes shall be counted for that write-in candidate.