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Ballots Are in the Mail
The U.S. Postal Service picked up more than 1.7 million ballots for Orange County’s registered voters on Saturday. And, we dropped off another 114,000 on Monday and Tuesday. You should receive your Vote-by-Mail ballot within the next several days, if you haven't already. If you have any questions about how to cast your ballot, visit ocvote.gov/voting. Bob Page Registrar of Voters |
| Current Tweet Day One of early voting in the 2024 Presidential General Election is in the books. Fifty-eight voters came to the County of Orange Registrar of Voters in Santa Ana today to request and vote |
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| Community Champions Videos We recently asked Orange County community leaders and voters to share on camera why they believe our elections are easy and secure. Their video testimonials were posted today on the Registrar of Voters’ YouTube Channel at www.youtube.com/@ocrov. The Community Champions in these videos include the chairs of the Republican and Democratic Parties of Orange County, a regular observer of our elections, a disabled voter, and voters from our language minority communities. We want to thank them for telling their stories of voting in Orange County. |
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| Open House is Today Join us today at our Open House from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Orange County Registrar of Voters, 1300 S. Grand Ave., Santa Ana (corner of Grand and McFadden avenues). The Open House will enable you to learn and ask questions about the various secure steps we take when processing and tallying ballots during each election. For more information visit ocvote.gov/observe. |
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| Ballot Drop Boxes Are Open Yesterday, October 7, Registrar of Voters employees went in two-person teams to inspect and unlock 123 Ballot Drop Boxes throughout the county for use in the 2024 Presidential General Election. Teams will now regularly retrieve ballots from the Ballot Drop Boxes, with increasing frequency as Election Day approaches. Starting October 26, teams will also collect ballots from Vote Centers. Ballots are brought to the Orange County Registrar of Voters main facility for secure processing. To find a Ballot Drop Box near you, visit ocvote.gov/voting. |
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| Keeping Ballots Secure When the Registrar of Voters collects voted ballots, we use teams of two staff members to transport the ballots and record chain of custody at each step in the process. For Vote-by-Mail ballots dropped off at a Vote Center, the staff records how many they received that day and the number on the seal they use to secure the ballot bag. That seal number is checked and re-recorded by the two-person team in the field that receives ballots from several Vote Centers in the same area. And, the seal number is checked again when the bag arrives at the Registrar of Voters and the number of Vote-by-Mail ballots in the bag is confirmed. For ballots placed in our Ballot Drop Boxes, the two-person collection teams are issued a new randomized route each day. We can communicate with them by cell phone and 800 MHz radio. We also track their GPS location throughout the day. When they arrive at an assigned Ballot Drop Box on their route, the team must take and submit several photos using their cell phone, showing that:
Only once their photos have been reviewed do we give them permission to proceed to the next drop box on their route. During the 2024 Presidential Primary Election, the ballot collection teams submitted nearly 12,000 photos. The team also records the number on the security seal that they use to secure the closure of the ballot bag. That seal number is confirmed at the Registrar of Voters before the ballot bag is opened and the ballots are removed for processing. |
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