Vote in person: prior to receiving your ballot at your polling location, you may be asked to provide an acceptable form of identification.
Examples of acceptable forms of personal identification are as follows: a copy of a recent utility bill, the county Voter Information Guide you received from your county elections office or another document sent to you by a government agency, or a copy of your passport, driver license, California identification card, or student identification card.
For more information on the type of identification to use when you vote for the first time, review the complete list of acceptable forms of identification PDF , call the Secretary of State's toll-free voter hotline at VOTE , or contact your county elections official.
California Elections Code section c requires county elections officials to establish procedures to track and confirm the receipt of voted vote-by-mail ballots and to make this information available by means of an online access system using the county's elections division web site or via a toll-free telephone number. A voter who has signed up will receive notices via email, text, or voice message from the county elections official regarding the status of the voter's vote-by-mail ballot including:.
Sign-up at WheresMyBallot. If you failed to receive your vote-by-mail ballot or you have lost or destroyed your original ballot, contact your county elections official in order to be sent a second vote-by-mail ballot. If you failed to receive your vote-by-mail ballot or you have lost or destroyed your original vote-by-mail ballot, and you are unable to vote in person at the polls, you may apply in writing for a late vote-by-mail ballot.
This application will need to be provided in person to the county elections official by you or your representative. Once you mark your ballot, fill out and sign the return envelope, you can personally or through your authorized representative, submit your ballot either to your elections official or any polling place within your jurisdiction.
For more information on voting by mail, click here. This allows voters to mark their selections on their ballot by using their own compatible technology to vote independently from their own home.
For more information on how to use this option, click here. This allows you to park as close as possible to the voting area. Election officials will bring you any voting materials you need to cast your ballot, either on the curb or in your car. Be sure to check if curbside voting is available at your polling or vote center by contacting you county elections office.
Contact your county elections office for details around accessible voting machines in your area. You can register to vote online! Registrations must be completed 15 days before Election Day. In most elections, if you need to register after 15 days before Election Day you may do so at your county elections office , a vote center, or a satellite office provided by your county elections official.
Not registered? Use our registration tool to fill out your application! For more information, please visit your Secretary of State's website. Private and public employers must give employees time off to vote, unless the employee has two hours of nonworking time available to vote or employee fails to vote. Employers may require employees to give advance notice that they will need additional time off for voting. Employers may require the time off be taking at the beginning or the end of the employees shift.
Optical Scan: With this system, you will receive a card or sheet of paper, which you take over to a private table or booth. The card has the names of the various candidates and ballot measures printed on it. With a pen or pencil you fill in a little box or circle or the space between two arrows. When you are finished filling out all the cards, you may bring the cards over to a ballot box, where poll workers will show you how to put the cards in the box.
Or in some places, you may feed the completed cards or papers into a computer device that checks your card or paper right there at the polling place to make sure you have voted the way you want to and counts the votes. Direct Recording Electronic DRE : Usually, after you have signed in, the poll workers will give you a card that you slide into a device to start your voting session. Some of these devices will show all of the candidates and ballot choices on one big screen.
Often, with these big screen devices you push a button next to the name of the candidate you want to vote for or yes or no on a ballot measure. On other DREs, the screen is set up to show pages. On each screen or page, there will probably be one thing to vote on. For example, on one screen or page, you might vote for president. Then you might move to the next page to vote for senator. Often these small-screen devices have a touch screen, where you touch the screen next to the name of the person you want to vote for.
Other devices have a key pad. And some have a keyboard, so you can write in the name of someone you want to vote for. You let the system know you are finished voting by pushing a button, touching the screen or entering something on a keypad.
LWV volunteers work year-round to register new voters, host community forums and debates, and provide voters with election information they need. Skip to main navigation. Voting In My State. View another state. Next Election: Primary. California Politics California Recall Election. Jessica Roy. Follow Us twitter instagram email facebook. Subscribers Are Reading. Politics For Subscribers. California For Subscribers. Lifestyle For Subscribers. If you have moved within fifteen days of an election after the registration deadline for that election , you can go to your previous polling place to vote on Election Day, or you can request a Vote-by-Mail ballot.
If you have moved within the same county more than fifteen days prior to an election and have not re-registered by the deadline, contact your county election office to get the location of your new polling place, or use the polling place look-up feature on that office's web site if available or on the Secretary of State's site.
You will need to bring with you to the polling place two pieces of identification showing your name and new address one piece is okay if it is your driver's license showing your new address , where you will then fill out a new voter registration form and cast what is called a "provisional ballot" provisional ballots are set aside and not counted until voter eligibility can be confirmed by the election office.
The above applies only to voters who have moved within the same county, not those who have moved from one county to another. If you moved to a diifferent county and missed the day registration deadline, you can visit your county election office, complete a conditional voter registration application and cast a conditional ballot that will be counted once the elections office processes your application and verifies you did not vote elsewhere.
Yes, California law requires that employers give their employees time off to vote in statewide elections if employees do not have time to vote outside of their normal work schedule but voters must ask for it at least two working days in advance. The law provides for a maximum of two hours of paid leave for the purposes of voting. More information is on the Secretary of State's " Time off to vote " web page.
If you have a concern regarding voter fraud, voter intimidation or any other irregularity involving voter registration or voting, please contact either the Secretary of State's Voting Information Hotline at VOTE, visit the Secretary of State's Voter Complaint page , or contact your county election office. If you would like to observe your county's vote counting process, contact your county election office and review the Secretary of State's Election Observations Rights and Responsibilities.
See the Secretary of State's web site for a list of election-related criminal activities and punishments. If you don't know which political districts you reside in or who your representatives are, there are a number of ways to find out:.
The boundaries of congressional and legislative political districts are redrawn in a process called redistricting that happens every ten years, following the release of updated U. Census figures. Historically, redistricting for U. House of Representatives, State Assembly and State Senate districts is conducted in California by the state legislature.
In , for the first time a new Citizens Redistricting Commission drew California legislative district lines. CVF's archived Redistricting Reform page provides additional information about this important change. On the voter registration form, you will be asked if you want to choose a political party preference. There are a number of qualified political parties in California. You may choose one of these parties or you may choose to be unaffiliated with any party.
You may also select "Other" and designate a political party that is not an official party in California meaning it has not reached the threshold of required number of party members to be considered an official party. Voters who wish to register independent of a party must select "No, I do not want to choose a political party preference" when registering to vote.
If you select "American Independent Party" you will be registered with a politial party and will not be registered as an indepedent. In a General Election you can vote for any candidate of any party regardless of what party you are registered with or if you are registered with no party preference. Under these rules, all voters, whether registered with a party or not, are allowed to vote for any Primary candidate of any party in statewide, congressional and legislative contests.
In these contests, the top two vote-getters will proceed to the General Election, even if they are of the same party. Click here for more information from the Secretrary of State. However, in a Presidential Primary election, voters registered with a political party can only choose among candidates for president who are registered with the same party the same is true for party central committee elections.
Independent, "No Party Preference" voters may have the option of voting in the Presidential primaries of political parties that allow No Party Preference voters to participate; whether parties allow this can vary from election to election, but generally the Democratic Party allows No Party Preference voters to vote in its presidential primaries and the Republican Party does not. Consult your official voter guide or contact your county election office for a list of parties that will allow No Party Preference voters to participate in upcoming Presidential Primary elections.
You may change your party affiliation at any time by filling out a new registration form. Be sure to re-register at least fifteen days prior to the next election in order for the change to take effect for that election.
If you miss this deadline, you can still complete a conditional voter registration application. Political organizations can become qualified parties in California either by reaching a certain threshold of registration, or by petition. Detailed information about how to qualify a political party in California is available on the Secretary of State's web site.
First-time voters must register to vote before casting a ballot. Voters who change their name or move must re-register. To register, update your registration name or address, or change your party preference, you need to complete a new voter registration form. Californians can register or update their registration online using their California driver's license or ID number by visiting RegisterToVote.
Registration applications submitted through the online system are sent to counties for review and approval before the process is completed. Voters who do not have a California driver's license or ID card can still use the online system, and will be instructed to print, sign and mail the form once completed online.
Additionally, many campaigns and political parties send out staff and volunteers to register voters at malls and other public places.
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