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Bill Elections: official canvass: manual tally. Existing law requires, during the official canvass of an election in which a voting system is used, the elections official conducting the election to conduct a public manual tally of the ballots tabulated by those devices, including vote by mail voters' ballots, cast in 1% of the precincts chosen at random by the elections official. us/states/ca California Legislature 20112012 AB 985 California AB 985 (20112012)
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California AB 985 (20112012) — Elections: official canvass: manual tally.

Existing law requires, during the official canvass of an election in which a voting system is used, the elections official conducting the election to conduct a public manual tally of the ballots tabulated by those devices, including vote by mail voters' ballots, cast in 1% of the precincts chosen at random by the elections official.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

  1. 02/18/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
  2. 07/01/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
  3. AB985 (committee substitute) — source
  4. 06/15/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • AB 985 WILLIAMS Consent Calendar Second Day — 730 (pass) · lower
  • Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — 50 (pass) · upper
  • Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 70 (pass) · lower
  • Consent Calendar 2nd — 360 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Williams — primary (person)
  • Blakeslee — coauthor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

  • 2011-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
  • 2011-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
  • 2011-03-10 Referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
  • 2011-04-13 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 12). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2011-04-14 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
  • 2011-05-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 1176.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
  • 2011-05-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
  • 2011-05-12 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
  • 2011-06-06 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
  • 2011-06-08 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 8). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2011-06-09 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
  • 2011-06-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1383.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
  • 2011-06-13 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
  • 2011-06-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:40 a.m.
  • 2011-06-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
  • 2011-07-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 52, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/df2dcbd5-576e-4dff-88f6-7011c0c2c78e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).