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Source: County of Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara County Elections Increasing Efforts to Help Voters Ensure Their Vote Will be Counted
As of today, September 17, there are only 47 days until the Presidential General Election on Tuesday, November 3. In Santa Barbara County, voters can expect increased efforts to help ensure their vote is counted.
Due to the pandemic, all registered voters in the State of California will automatically receive a ballot in the mail around the beginning of October. If a voter does not receive their ballot by October 12, they should immediately contact the Santa Barbara County Registrar of Voters office at (805) 568-2200.
Voters can verify the accuracy of their voter registration, including residential and mailing addresses, at sos.ca.gov/elections/registration-status or sbcvote.com.
To make address and other updates to their registration, or for eligible citizens to register to vote, go to www.registertovote.ca.gov.
County Elections Adds 30 or More Secured Ballot Drop Boxes Throughout the County
Voters are encouraged to complete their ballot and return it through one of 30 or more secure drop boxes located throughout the county. Drop boxes will be available 24 hours per day beginning October 5 until 8 p.m. on Election Day.
To avoid concerns about postal delivery delays, voters are encouraged to utilize a drop box to return their ballot. A list of all drop box locations in Santa Barbara County will be included with the vote ballot and posted at SBCVote.com.
Voters may mail their ballot with no postage required, postmarked by Election Day, November 3. The preprinted return address is the Santa Barbara County Elections Office. The Postal Service advises voters to mail their ballots no later than October 27 to reach the elections office in time to be counted.
Voters must remember to sign the ballot envelope. The signature on every returned voted ballot envelope will be compared to the signature on the voter’s registration card before it is counted.
If a voter thinks that their signature has changed over time, they should contact Santa Barbara Registrar of Voters at (805) 568-2200 or re-register online at www.registertovote.ca.gov. The DMV signature may be utilized with online voter registration.
Santa Barbara County Elections is staffing approximately 35 in-person voting sites over four days for those who would like additional services including language assistance or a replacement ballot.
These sites will be open October 31 through Election Day, Tuesday, November 3. Facial coverings will be required and voters should expect a socially distanced waiting line. Voters have been assigned to polling place locations that will be listed on the back cover of the voter’s County Voter Information Guide. Voters can also use the Sample Ballot and Polling Place Look-up tool at SBCVote.com.
For information about becoming a poll worker at one of these sites, please call (805) 568-2200 or go to the webpage.
The three election offices in the county will be open for voting, voter registration and voter questions from October 5 through Election Day, November 3.
Office locations and regular business hours:
Santa Barbara
4440-A Calle Real
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday – Friday, except holidays
4440-A Calle Real
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday – Friday, except holidays
Lompoc
401 E. Cypress St, Room 102*
8 a.m. to noon, and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday – Friday, except holidays
401 E. Cypress St, Room 102*
8 a.m. to noon, and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday – Friday, except holidays
*To better serve voters, the Lompoc Office will move to the Lompoc Veteran’s Memorial Building at 100 E. Locust starting October 22, 2020
Santa Maria
511 E. Lakeside Parkway, Suite 134
8 a.m. to noon, and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday – Friday, except holidays
511 E. Lakeside Parkway, Suite 134
8 a.m. to noon, and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday – Friday, except holidays
The Santa Barbara County Registrar of Voters Office wants to help make the voting process as easy as possible. For questions or assistance, please call (805) 568-2200.
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Excellent information. Thank you for sharing well before the election. Please post repeatedly so all votes count !! Don’t use USPS.
Register to vote NOW, if you’re not already registered. If you have moved and/or changed your maiden name ——– you need to re-register. Do you have friends and relatives in other states — or maybe in CA, too —– who are unsure about how and when to vote? PLEASE tell them to go to —–betterknowaballot.com———-Stephen Colbert is uploading state-by-state easy to follow instructions.
In my somewhat short (~10years) voting life, I have yet to set foot in a voting booth. Conspiracy theories aside, I never understood why anyone would spend the time to go to a voting booth when you could just drop a ballot in the mailbox. So much easier.
I’ve been voting by mail for the last 10 years. Only the conspiracy theorists are whining about it.
Anyone else seen that comment floating around facebook? I know I have. By the way, since when has anyone had any concerns with USPS delivery? No one ever had issues with the USPS until it became a political issue. I wonder how that works?
This is such a bad idea on so many levels.
1. Why are we changing the way we vote now? You can’t say it’s because of COVID because we are allowed to stand in line at the grocery store, bank and so forth so why not stand in line when we vote? I think we all know the answer. One political party is seeking an unfair advantage.
2. Using this mass-mailing method to distribute ballots is without a doubt, going to cause controversy because someone, for sure, will gather up unclaimed ballots, vote illegally, and then get caught.
*As an aside, it would be great if people could stop equating absentee balloting with this type of mass-mailing of unsolicited ballots. It’s misleading and it’s a lie.
Sorry to bust yer bubble there Blue but, this is a “Democratic Republic” we live in and that is different than the”Democracy” you are hung up on.
Want your style of gov’t?
Move to any socialist country and you will find out what a “Democracy” is really like.
Socialism run by the state.
I’m concerned about the security of drop boxes. After the kerfuffles with people fishing letters from blue post office boxes, I wonder if trouble-makers would vandalize the election drop boxes.