Current Regulations

Business

• Business Entity Names
• Business Programs
• Notary Public
• Uniform Commercial Code
• Victims of Corporate Fraud Compensation Fund

Stamped and Approved Form 400(PDF)

Elections

• Access to Voter Registration Information
• Note:These regulations will come into effect July 1, 2022.
  • Stamped and Approved Form 400(PDF)
• Conditional Voter Registration
  • Stamped and Approved Form 400(PDF)
  • Stamped and Approved Form 400(PDF)
  • Conditional Voter Registration (SB 504 - Emergency Regulations)
• Vote-by-Mail Ballot Drop Boxes and Vote-by-Mail Drop-Off Locations
  • Stamped and Approved Form 400(PDF)
• Early Ballot Retrieval
  • Stamped and Approved Form 400(PDF)
• Ballot Designations
• California New Motor Voter Program
• Election Petition Signature Verification Random Sampling Verification Methodology
• Escrow of Ballot Tally Software Program Source Codes
• Help America Vote Act (HAVA) Identification Standards
• Ballot Printing
• Recounts
• Statewide Voter Registration System
  • Stamped and Approved Form 400 (PDF)
  • California Application for Certification of an Election Management System, version 1.0 (PDF)
  • Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 140-2, published May 25, 2001
  • National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-175B, Published August, 2016 (PDF)
  • Secretary of State VoteCal Data Standards (revised January 27, 2020) (PDF)
  • VoteCal System EMS Intergration and Data Exchange Specifications Document, revised June 29, 2016 (PDF)
  • Stamped and Approved Form 400(PDF)
• Voter Registration
• Voting System Certification Regulations
• Electronic Poll Books
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• Risk Limiting Audits
  • Stamped and Approved Form 400 (PDF)
  • California Post-Election Risk-Limiting Audit Ballot Manifest Format (October 15, 2019) (PDF)
• Petition Processing, Signature Verification, Ballot Processing, and Ballot Counting
  • Stamped and Approved Form - 400(PDF)
• Notices Regarding Prohibition of Electioneering and Corruption of the Voting Process 
  • Note:The emergency regulations are effective as of February 22, 2022, and will expire on August 23, 2022.
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  • OAL File No: 2022-0211-01E (PDF)

Political Reform Division

• CAL-ACCESS Software Vendor Certification
  • Stamped and Approved Form 400 (PDF)
  • Modification to Form 400: Renumbering (PDF)

Programs/Registries

• Safe at Home Confidential Address Program
• Advance Health Care Directive Registry

Technology

• Digital Signatures
  • Stamped and Approved Form 400 (PDF)
• Trustworthy Electronic Document or Record Preservation