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Early Voting
Early voting for the November 3, 2026, General Election is underway. Since ballots were mailed to all registered Orange County voters, more than 65,000 voters have already marked and cast their Vote-By-Mail ballot. You can vote your ballot early by:
You can mail or drop off your Vote-By-Mail ballot at any Ballot Drop Box, Vote Center or our office until 8 p.m. on Nov. 3. If mailing your ballot, consider returning it early but make sure it is postmarked no later than Nov. 3. You can find out when your ballot is counted by visiting ocvote.gov/track. Bob Page Registrar of Voters |
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| Voter Lookup Tool Orange County Registrar of Voters’ Voter Lookup Tool provides you with access to several election-related services, including:
Access the Voter Lookup Tool at ocvote.gov/vlt. With the registration deadline on Monday, Oct. 19, now is a good time to confirm your registration is current. |
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| Registration Deadline is Oct. 19 The voter registration deadline for the November 3, 2026, General Election is Monday, Oct. 19 at 11:59 p.m. to be mailed a ballot. You can register to vote online today at ocvote.gov/register. The online form takes just a few minutes, and you can use it to register for the first time or to update your address, name or political party. If you are not sure whether your registration is current, check your status online at ocvote.gov/verify. If you miss the deadline, you can still register and vote in person at any Vote Center or at the Registrar of Voters, 1300 S. Grand Ave., Bldg. C, Santa Ana, 92705, through Election Day. |
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| FAQ - Is Your Ballot Secret in a Vote-By-Mail Envelope? Some voters have asked whether the marks on a ballot can be seen through the ballot return envelope. OCROV wants our voters to know that the secrecy of every voter’s ballot is extremely important. OCROV ballot envelopes include a privacy lining and do not have holes. We also do not attempt to determine how an individual voter marked their ballot, which would violate the voter’s state constitutional right to vote a secret ballot. And the California Elections Code provides that anyone who is not on our staff who examines another voter’s ballot to determine how that person voted could be fined up to $10,000 and imprisoned for up to three years. Our ballot processing is entirely transparent. Voters can visit our office to see for themselves that we do not individually review each ballot envelope by hand to detect how a voter marked their ballot and do not throw away any voted ballots. Voters have several secure options to choose from to return their ballot – mail their ballot, place it in a Ballot Drop Box, hand deliver it to our office or a Vote Center, or visit a Vote Center to vote an in-person ballot. We encourage voters to visit ocvote.gov/track to track their ballot and to confirm when we have received and counted it. |
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| Your Vote is Not on the Internet In compliance with California law, all voting equipment used by OCROV in Vote Centers and our office is not connected to the internet, which includes our ballot-on-demand printers, accessible ballot marking devices, ballot scanners, and tally room servers and workstations. Our voting equipment and voting system are air gapped from all other systems and networks used by OCROV. And, the equipment lacks any hardware that would allow it to connect to the internet. The separate election management system contains the voter registration database, candidate filing information, voting locations and petitions. It does send and receive encrypted voter participation information over secure cloud servers connected to the statewide voter registration system VoteCal and to the poll books used in Vote Centers to check in voters. The tracking and sharing of voter participation data in the election management system helps us prevent voters from successfully casting two ballots within Orange County or one within Orange County and another in a second county in the state. The election management system and the voting system are two separate and distinct State-certified systems that are not connected to each other. The election management system tracks whether a voter cast a ballot in an election. But it does not contain ballot data, votes or results. The voting system contains ballot information, including ballot images, cast vote records and vote tallies. But it does not contain voter information, to ensure the votes on every voter’s ballot remain secret even to OCROV. |
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