CHAPTER 3 Candidate’s Statement of Qualifications
Each candidate for City Council or Mayor may prepare a candidate statement of qualifications. The candidate statement will be printed in the sample ballot that is mailed to all registered voters by the Orange County Registrar of Voters. The statement includes the name and occupation of the candidate and a brief description ( no more than 200 words ), of the candidate's qualifications. Please see City Council Resolution No. 24-9 5 included at the end of this chapter for regulations regarding candidate statements, and included in your nomination packet for the required candidate statement form, which has also been provided you in electronic form. The candidate’s age is optional. The name, age and occupation lines are not included in the 200 word limitation . If a candidate has a character-based name, or does not have a character-based name by birth, but who identifies by a particular character-based name, the candidate may use the name instead of a phonetic transliteration. If a candidate chooses to use a character-based name, the Character-Based Name Form must be filled out and submitted. The Form is included in the Candidate’s materials. Character-Based Name Election Code Section 13211.7 Elections Code Section 13211.7 provides as follows: “(a) (1)In jurisdictions required to provide translated ballot materials pursuant to Section 203 of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 (52 U.S.C. Sec. 10503), as that section may be amended from time to time, any ballot that provides a translation of a candidate’s name shall contain a phonetic transliteration of the candidate’s name, except as provided in subdivision (b). (2)This section applies only to character-based languages, including, but not limited to, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Japanese, and Korean. (3)If a candidate’s name is to appear on the ballot in more than one jurisdiction in an election, all of those jurisdictions required to provide translated ballot materials pursuant to Section 203 of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 (52 U.S.C. Sec. 10503) shall use the same phonetic transliteration or character-based translation of the name. (4) (A)In a jurisdiction in which separate ballots containing translations of the candidates’ names are printed in different languages, both the alphabet-based names and the translations of the candidates’ names, for candidates that have translated names, shall appear on the translated ballot. 26
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