It’s a critical year for environmental voters to get out and vote on November 2nd! Here are this year’s voter registration deadlines in California, which are coming up soon.
- The big one: You must register to vote by October 18 in order to vote in the November 2nd election.
- If you want to register to vote by mail, you must do so by 5 pm on October 26. (Get more info on voting by mail from the California Secretary of State’s office.)
- If you are a vote-by-mail (absentee) voter, you should mail your ballot by at least October 28 or 29 (it must arrive by 8 pm on November 2nd, when the polls close).
- Though we don’t encourage you to procrastinate, sometimes election day sneaks up unexpectedly. If you hold onto your vote-by-mail ballot too long, that’s okay — you can drop off your ballot at your Registrar of Voters office anytime, or at your polling place on the day of the election. (Your polling place is on the voter information packet you should be receiving in the mail, or you can find out through the Secretary of State’s office.)
- If you somehow lose your ballot, or your official vote-by-mail envelope (though I hate to admit it, I’ve done it), you can go to the polls on election day and cast a provisional ballot, which will be counted when it is verified that you didn’t vote by mail.
There’s a lot more information for voters available from the Secretary of State’s office. Thanks for supporting environmental protection by voting! (It’s also a great time to give to CLCV and support our work to elect strong environmental leaders!)
