Description:
Extensive information about the duties of the Secretary of State, elections and voting, campaign and lobbying finance, business filings, State Archives, and special programs such as the domestic partners and advance health care directive registries. Includes a biography of Debra Bowen, "elected to be California's 30th Secretary of State on November 7, 2006, making her only the sixth woman elected to a statewide constitutional office since California was admitted to the Union in 1850." |