April 1, 2018 - It is increasingly difficult to recruit polling places, for a variety of reasons. For instance, a long-time polling place in an apartment complex clubhouse, located in Westminster (since 1994), recently told us that they no longer wanted to be a polling place due to parking and "space concerns". Voters don't understand these changes and dynamics, which make it demanding for voters and us alike.
Voting
May 24, 2016 - This is a question we receive quite often - especially from voters who only vote once every few years. When a voter fills out a registration form, one of the questions asked (in fact it's #14 on the California form) is "Do you want to register with a political party?". There are 8 possible answers, including major and minor parties, as well as declining to affiliate with a party (known as "No Party Preference, or NPP").
March 24, 2018 - California has one of the most complicated rotation laws in the country - the order of candidates on the ballot will rotate, depending on where voters live in Orange County. For most contests we arrange the names of the candidates according to the randomized alphabet for the First Assembly District. Then for each succeeding Assembly District, the name appearing first in the last preceding Assembly District will be placed last, while the order of the other names will remain unchanged. Got all of that?
August 15, 2016 - Friday was the deadline for cities, school districts, special districts, and other jurisdictions to decide if they wanted to place a measure or item on the November 8th ballot. We have a record number of measures for a general election (33 in fact - this does not include state propositions, which total 17). Registrar of Voters Neal Kelley assigns the letters (generally starting with the last letter used in the previous election) - in this case "I" was the last letter used in June, so we begin with "J".
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Plan ahead prior to voting and prepare for possible congestion at polling places.
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SANTA ANA, CA - It is unknown how many voters will vote at their polling place on Election Day, Tuesday, November 8, 2016. We have mailed a record nearly 1 million vote-by-mail ballots to Orange County voters, so the polling place turnout is likely to be busy but with fewer in-person voters when compared with 2012. Nevertheless, polling place voters should prepare for congestion during peak voting times and plan ahead prior to voting (peak voting times include 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.).
March 8, 2019 - Pursuant to California Election Code section 15360 (d) this serves as public notice that we will be conducting a random draw of 1% of our precincts in the March 12, 2019 Third Supervisorial District Vacancy Election to be used in a manual tally of votes cast. This manual tally is used to verify the electronic tally of our voting system and the vote-by-mail tally system. The random draw will occur on Thursday, March 14, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. The manual tallies will follow the random draw and will take place until complete. Both processes are open to the public.
Many options have been in place for nearly 30 days to allow voters ample time to plan ahead for voting prior to Election Day.
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SANTA ANA, CA –October 31, 2020 – The Registrar of Voters is strongly encouraging voters to vote ahead of Election Day (Tuesday, November 3, 2020) if at all possible. Election Day is the end of a 30-day voting period, which has provided voters many options for voting-at-home, or in-person prior to Election Day to avoid congestion.
Test to take place in preparation for Presidential Primary Election
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SANTA ANA, CA - Accuracy testing of Orange County's voting system will take place Tuesday, May 31, 2016 at 10:00 a.m. for the June 7, 2016 Primary Election.
The Logic and Accuracy test is required by law to be performed prior to each election. Logic and Accuracy tests will include proofing the programming of the ballot, each ballot style and each contest position on the ballot. All previous tests of the voting system have proven it to be 100% accurate.
The process is open to the public.
WHAT: Logic and Accuracy Test
Test to take place in preparation for 32nd Senate District Special General Election
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SANTA ANA, CA - Accuracy testing of Orange County's voting system will take place Tuesday, July 31, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. for the August 7, 2018 32nd Senate District Special General Election.
The Logic and Accuracy test is required by law to be performed prior to each election. Logic and Accuracy tests will include proofing the programming of the ballot, each ballot style and each contest position on the ballot. All previous tests of the voting system have proven it to be 100% accurate.
The process is open to the public.