Bill > AB1116

This bill expands California’s online voter registration system—which currently requires users to have a California driver’s license or state identification card—to allow individuals without those specific state-issued cards to submit their voter registration affidavits online by providing the last four digits of their Social Security number instead. To accommodate these applicants, the legislation directs the Secretary of State to create a disability-accessible method for collecting an electronic image of the applicant's signature, which county election officials can then use to verify signatures on future vote-by-mail ballot return envelopes in the same manner they use signatures obtained from Department of Motor Vehicles records. Additionally, the measure outlines a verification process to authenticate these applicants by matching their provided name, date of birth, and partial Social Security number against existing state and federal records, and it establishes an operative start date of January 1, 2029, for these new provisions.