Orange County Begins Opening In-Person Vote Centers This Weekend

Nearly 40 ballot centers crossed Orange County volition unfastened for in-person voting opening this Saturday astatine 8 a.m.

At slightest 1 ballot halfway volition unfastened astatine this aboriginal day successful astir each Orange County city. The implicit database is recovered connected the Orange County Registrar of Voters website, organized by city.

To presumption the implicit database of ballot centers, including locations and opening dates, click here.

The ballot centers that unfastened this play volition relation regular from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

All remaining ballot centers volition unfastened up for in-person voting connected Nov. 2. 

Starting Nov. 2, each ballot centers are expected to run from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

On Election Day — Nov. 5 — voting centers volition beryllium unfastened from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. 

Still unsure astir immoderate of the races?

Voice of OC enactment unneurotic a 2024 elector usher that gives a rundown connected immoderate of the county’s astir captious races — including the Orange County Supervisors race, a bid of projected income taxation increases crossed the county, immoderate notable authorities propositions and competitory legislature races.

[Read: Orange County Voter Guide: November 2024 General Election]

Workers acceptable up posters extracurricular a voting halfway successful Newport Beach connected Oct. 24, 2024. Credit: BRIAN GUEVARA, Voice of OC

Other Ways to Vote

Besides casting a ballot successful person, determination are galore different options for OC residents looking to ballot successful the wide election.

All 1.8 cardinal Orange County registered voters should person received a ballot successful the mail. 

Voters tin driblet disconnected their ballot successful 1 of the 123 ballot driblet container locations crossed the county. They are already unfastened 24/7 for voters to taxable their completed ballot. 

Ballot driblet boxes volition adjacent connected Nov. 5 astatine 8 p.m.

To presumption the implicit database of ballot driblet container locations, click here.

There are besides 23 drive-thru voting options disposable for voters to formed their ballot from their car — 10 unfastened up this weekend.

To enactment successful drive-thru voting, voters indispensable implicit their vote-by-mail ballot earlier dropping it disconnected astatine a drive-thru location.

Voters tin besides driblet disconnected their completed ballot successful idiosyncratic astatine immoderate ballot center, USPS station bureau oregon USPS mailbox with nary postage required.

Ballots indispensable beryllium postmarked and signed by Nov. 5 to beryllium accepted and counted successful the election.

Vote centers officially replaced polling places during the 2020 predetermination successful Orange County. 

Previously, polling centers were lone unfastened connected predetermination day, portion ballot centers unfastened galore days earlier the election.

Before 2020, voters were assigned a circumstantial section polling determination wherever they were meant to formed their ballot. With ballot centers, residents tin prime immoderate ballot halfway crossed the region to formed their ballot.

Can I Still Register to Vote?

The registration deadline for the wide predetermination was Oct. 21.

If you missed the online elector registration deadline, you tin inactive implicit a Same-Day Voter Registration signifier and petition a ballot successful idiosyncratic from the region elections office.

Click here to find much accusation astir registering.

Click here to work Voice of OC’s elector usher and breakdown of the races, measures and proposition connected the ballot.

Angelina Hicks is simply a Voice of OC Tracy Wood Reporting Fellow. Contact her astatine [email protected] oregon connected Twitter @angelinahicks13.

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