CountyofSantaBarbara
All registered voters in California will receive a Vote-by-Mail ballot in the mail by early October
The Santa Barbara County Elections Office announced today that official Vote-by-Mail ballots and voting materials will be delivered to the United States Post Office by October 7th. Registered voters are asked to check their mailboxes for their ballot and related voter information guides which should reach them within the next 5-10 days.
The vote-by-mail packet will contain several items:
- the voter’s official ballot
- instructions for voting and returning the ballot
- A ballot return envelope with a unique barcode that allows the Elections Office to verify the signature of the voter on the envelope with the voter’s registration record. This may be the signature on the voter registration card submitted by the voter or the signature on the voter’s driver’s license if they registered to vote at the DMV. It is important that the voter verifies that their name is printed on the envelope (the ballot doesn’t belong to another person living at the same address), signs the envelope, and encloses the ballot in the return envelope.
If a voter receives a ballot for a person who is no longer living at the address, please:
- Mark the box on the bottom left corner of the outgoing envelope and return the packet to a mail carrier
OR
- Write “No longer at this address” on the outside envelope and return it to a mail carrier
Ballots may be returned by mail (postmarked by Election Day, November 5), returned in person to one of three election offices (locations listed below), to any polling place on Election Day, or an official ballot drop boxes located throughout the County.
A list of polling places and official drop box locations can be found at www.sbcvote.com.
Voters can sign up to track their ballot at WheresMyBallot.sos.ca.gov.
Voters can check their registration status, look up their polling place, and find their ballot’s status by using the look-up tool at voterstatus.sos.ca.gov or calling the Elections Office at 800-722-8683.
Register online at registertovote.ca.gov/ or request a registration form by calling 800-722-8683. Voter registration forms are available at local DMV offices, post offices and public libraries.
Santa Barbara County Elections Offices are located at:
- Santa Barbara Elections Main Office (4440-A Calle Real) Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Saturday, November 2 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
- Santa Maria Elections Branch Office (511 Lakeside Parkway, Ste. 134) Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. to Noon and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. beginning October 5 and on Saturday, November 2 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
- Lompoc Elections Branch Office (401 E. Cypress, Suite 102) – 8 a.m. to Noon and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. beginning October 29 on Saturday, November 2 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Santa Barbara County Elections can be reached at sbcvote.com or by calling 800-722-8683.
Apparently, Gov. Newsom wants to make sure that even folks here ILLEGALLY (Non-U.S. Citizen’s) can place a vote. He passed a law last week that makes it ILLEGAL TO ASK FOR ANYONE for I.D. in the State of California prior to that person (of unknown Nationality) to place a Vote… So much for “Democracy”
https://www.newsweek.com/gavin-newsom-bans-california-requiring-id-vote-1961685
Now show PROOF that the voting system we have had in this country for many years has suffered from any sort of statistically meaningful fraud.
You can’t. Because it doesn’t happen.
Words and opinions are “facts” to these folks. “If someone I agree with tells me something, it’s 100% true.”
Just more CW fantasy garbage.
Have you ever voted in this State? You don’t just show up and cast an anonymous ballot, buddy, you give them a name. And then they cross the name off.
So if there are bunches of people out there claiming to be someone they are not and striking that person from the list at the polling place you’re going to hear about it. If there are bunches of people intercepting ballots mail in ballots from your mailbox and forging signatures you’re going to hear about it.
You can’t register to vote in Ca. without ID.
You live n a literal fantasy world
Seriously, have you ever voted?
And it’s a felony … very few people would risk that and very few have–certainly not people who are undocumented. Just a handful of Republicans who have neither brains nor scruples.
The bill that Newsom signed was intended to counter what was happening in Huntington Beach (https://ktla.com/news/local-news/new-california-law-bars-cities-from-implementing-voter-id-requirements/). That’s this place:
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/police-discover-more-than-50-firearms-while-serving-search-warrant-at-huntington-beach-home/
SB 1174 was signed by the Governor last month and has been in the works since last April. No matter what you think about it, the new law isn’t effective until Jan 1, 2025 so does not impact the upcoming general election.
Compare that with what Trump’s three partisan “pitbulls” on the Georgia State Elections Board are doing right now in hopes of purposely injecting chaos into their state’s election only 4 weeks from now:
https://www.newsweek.com/republican-appointed-judge-questions-georgias-new-vague-ballot-rule-1962323
That chaos would of course only add fuel for the fire that election deniers want to light:
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/election-deniers-playbook-2024
That’s not apparent to anyone intelligent, informed, or honest.