Mystery Education Theater 3000

This cal­endar shows es­tab­lished Cal­i­fornia elec­tion dates. For al­most all elec­tions, there is an 88-​day cutoff for get­ting mea­sures (like school parcel taxes and Prop. 39 bond mea­sures) on to the ballot, so this cal­endar also cal­cu­lates that dead­line. The basis for the elec­tion dates ap­pears in a table after this.

(This is ac­tu­ally an em­bedded Google Docs spread­sheet that can be ac­cessed di­rectly.)

The stan­dard elec­tions dates are set in two parts of the Elec­tion Code. For es­tablished elec­tion polling dates, this is Elec­tion Code Sec­tion 1000 as amended by AB80 (Fong). For estab­lished mail ballot elec­tion dates, this is Elec­tion Code Sec­tion 1500. Here’s how it works month-​by-​month for even and odd years: