Orange County Registrar of Voters

Voter Registration Deadline

The voter registration deadline for the 2024 Presidential General Election is Monday, October 21 at 11:59 p.m.

You can register to vote online today at ocvote.gov/register. If you want to check your registration status, or if you need to make updates, you can do so online at ocvote.gov/verify.

If you are unable to meet the voter registration deadline, you can still conditionally register to vote through November 5 at any Vote Center or at the Registrar of Voters located at 1300 S. Grand Ave., Bldg. C, Santa Ana, 92705.

You may also conditionally register to vote online but must then go to a Vote Center or the Registrar of Voters to be issued a provisional ballot.

Bob Page
Registrar of Voters

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Upcoming Important Deadlines

The Orange County Registrar of Voters created an Election Calendar to help you keep track of important deadlines for the 2024 Presidential General Election. You can access the calendar at ocvote.gov/calendar to see the upcoming dates:

October 21: Deadline to register to vote
October 26: SELECT Vote Centers open across the county
October 29: Last day to request a replacement ballot to be mailed
November 2: All Vote Centers open
November 5: Voting ends at 8 p.m
November 7: Precincts randomly selected for the One Percent Manual Tally Audit
November 8: Twenty-digit seed number randomly selected for Risk Limiting Audit
November 15: Post-Election Logic and Accuracy test begins
December 3: Certification of OC Election results

Early Voting Underway

We mailed ballots to all registered voters last week. You can vote early by:

Placing your completed ballot in the ballot-return envelope and mailing it in (no postage is needed)
Dropping it off at one of 123 ballot drop boxes located throughout Orange County
Bringing it to our office at 1300 S. Grand Ave., Bldg. C, Santa Ana, 92705

On Saturday, October 26, we will open 38 Vote Centers for in-person voting. On Saturday, November 2, all 184 Vote Centers will open.

You can mail or drop off your Vote-by-Mail ballot at any Ballot Drop Box, Vote Center and our office until 8 p.m. on November 5. If mailing your ballot, make sure it is postmarked no later than November 5.

You can find out when your ballot is counted by signing up for OC Ballot Express at ocvote.gov/track.

Observation for November 5, 2024 Presidential General Election

The public is invited to observe as the Orange County Registrar of Voters conducts the November 5, 2024 Presidential General Election. All ballot processing, counting, testing, and audits will take place at the Orange County Registrar of Voters Office at 1300 S. Grand Ave., Bldg C, Santa Ana, CA 92705.

Observers are also welcome to visit Vote Center and Ballot Drop Box locations throughout the county to observe daily operations. It is our commitment that Orange County elections are secure, fair, accurate, transparent, and accessible. You can view the various secure steps we take when processing and tallying ballots during each election.

Daily election activities are posted and updated on an observation calendar on the Registrar of Voters website–ocvote.gov/observe.

Can Only Voters Return Their Own Ballots?

California Elections Code permits voters to authorize any person to return their voted vote-by-mail ballot.

The person authorized by the voter to return the voter’s vote-by-mail ballot is required to:

Write and sign their name on the ballot identification envelope

Return the voter’s ballot to the Registrar of Voters no later than three days after receiving it from the voter or before the close of the polls on election day, whichever time period is shorter

The Registrar of Voters recommend voters only authorize a person they trust to return their ballot and then to verify that trust by signing up for our ballot tracking service OC Ballot Express, which will notify them once ROV receives their ballots.

If someone drops off multiple ballots to our office or a vote center, it is our practice to review the ballots to confirm the person dropping them off has signed the ballot identification envelope. But if the person authorized to return the ballots has not signed the ballot identification envelope, state law requires the Registrar of Voters to process the ballots.

We do not open the ballot identification envelope to access the ballot inside unless the voter’s signature on the ballot identification envelope compares to the voter’s signature we have on file with the voter’s registration records.


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