Fastest Way to Register
Go to
your County Elections office, fill out a registration form, and personally hand it to them.
You will be registered on the spot.
Fairly Speedy Way to Register
Mail your registration form to
your County Elections office.
You can call and have them mail you a form, pick one up from a location in town
(often a library or post office), or download the form: in
English or
en Español.
This entire process usually takes about a week including mailing time.
Slow Method
Filling out the on-line form is the slowest way, and could cause you to miss the deadline. First you fill out the form and click
the "submit" button to send it in. In about two weeks (or more if the system gets backed up),
the state will mail you a form to sign. You must then send that form
to Your County Elections Office.
During the 2000 and 2004 elections tens of thousands of people went to the polling places only to be told they were not listed on the voting list and thus could not vote. The reasons could be as simple as a precinct line being redrawn so that the voter needed to go across town to vote. It could be as complex as voter databases being erroneously "scrubbed" by state officials. If your county recently got new voter equipment, there could be errors transferring data from one system to another.
Receiving a sample ballot and polling location information in the mail is one way to confirm
that you are registered. Another very simple way to confirm that you are still on the list is
to phone your local elections
office and ask them.
Official California Voter Registration Page
Secretary of State Bruce McPherson's Web Site
Voting Rights Groups File “Friend of the Court Brief” in Kentucky Voter Purge Case
Project Vote
September 25, 2006
Thousands of Voters Dumped Off California's Voting Rolls
State Senator Debora Bowen
McPherson, Lawmakers Need to Fix Trouble
Editorial: The Sacramento Bee
April 13, 2006
California Clean Money
Voluntary full public funding of election campaigns
HAVA
Help America Vote Act of 2002
Federal Election Commission
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