California is the only state that prints the occupation of candidates on ballots. The policy applies both to partisan and non-partisan elections. The law says a candidate’s occupational ballot listing is as of the day candidates filed. San Francisco is having a special Mayoral election on June 5, and filing has already closed.

On the day filing closed, London Breed was Mayor of San Francisco. However, afterwards, the Board of Supervisors replaced her with someone else. The city elections office is nevertheless listing London Breed as “Mayor/Supervisor” because that was her occupation on filing day. Another candidate for Mayor, Mark Leno, has sued the city elections office to force it to revise Breed’s ballot occupation listing. See this story.