With less than two weeks until the March 5 California primary, voters in Los Angeles County can now vote early in person at one of the following locations: 119 voting centers The one that opened on Saturday.
The vote includes a long list of statewide and local candidates and ballot measures, including an open race for the U.S. Senate that will determine the party's nominee for president and the top two candidates who will advance to the November election. I am.
California requires county election offices to begin mailing ballots to all registered voters by February 5 at the latest. Vote centers open 10 days before an election and are one of several options for voters to return their ballots by mail or vote in person. Until Super Tuesday.
Voters can also submit their completed ballots by mail or return them at their local mail-in drop box.
People who want to vote but have missed the voter registration deadline can do so by filling out a conditional voter registration form at a voting center. Votes will be counted after election officials verify the eligibility of the voters.
The Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder and County Clerk announced that voting centers will be open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily through March 4. Vote centers and polling places will open early on Election Day, and voting will close across the state at 8 p.m.
At the request of then-Secretary of State Alex Padilla, who now represents California in the U.S. Senate, state lawmakers expanded voting rights under a law approved in 2016 called the California Voter Choice Act. The law allowed counties to mail ballots to all registered voters and required voting centers to open 10 days before the election.
The changes were made as part of an effort to make it easier for Californians to participate in elections after historically low voter turnout in 2014.
As of Thursday, 22.3 million registered voters had received their ballots by mail, and more than 1.4 million had returned them. According to the California Secretary of State's Office. The majority of returned ballots, about 1.2 million, were submitted by mail.
