What is Fail Safe voting?
Voters who have moved within Stanislaus County and did not re-register to vote may vote as “Fail Safe” voters. In 1983 a process for voting provisionally was added to the California law under California Elections Code § 14310. The process provided that any voter claiming to be properly registered was entitled to vote even though the voter’s qualification or entitlement to vote could not be immediately established. An additional code section Elections Code §14311 was added by Chapter 919 in 1995 in response to provisions of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA/”Motor Voter”) Section 8 (e)(2)(A)(ii)(II) known as “Fail Safe.
Voters who have moved within Stanislaus County and did not re-register to vote may vote as “Fail Safe” voters. In 1983 a process for voting provisionally was added to the California law under California Elections Code § 14310. The process provided that any voter claiming to be properly registered was entitled to vote even though the voter’s qualification or entitlement to vote could not be immediately established.