Tuesday March 5th Election Day Nuances

If you want to vote for the Green, Peace and Freedom, or Republican parties' presidential candidates:  You must re-register with that specific party.

No Party Preference/No Party

Your vote-by-mail ballot will not have presidential candidates on it.

As a voter who declined to provide a political party preference, you are considered a "No Party Preference (NPP)" voter, and your ballot will not have presidential candidates on it.

If you want to vote for U.S. President, you must request a ballot with presidential candidates from one of the following parties:

• American Independent Party
• Democratic Party
• Libertarian Party

• Final List of Qualified Candidates to Appear on the Ballot
• Final List of Qualified Candidates Whose Name Will Not Appear on the Ballot

• Vote-by-mail ballots must be postmarked on or before Election Day and received by March 12, 2024.
• Find Your Polling Place :: California Secretary of State
• If you are not currently registered or you registered to vote after the close of registration, please see our Same Day Voter Registration page. Same Day Voter Registration is available at county election offices and polling locations.
• To find same day voter registration location(s) in your county, early voting locations, or ballot drop-off locations, please visit our Early Voting and Vote-by-Mail Drop-Off Locations page.

Here you can: My Voter Status - California Secretary of State

• Check if you are registered to vote.
• Check where you are registered to vote.
• Check your political party preference.
• Check your language preference for election materials.
• Check the status of your vote-by-mail or provisional ballot.

• Find your polling place.
• Find information for upcoming local and state elections.
• Find contact information for your county elections office.
• Choose how you want to receive your state and county voter guides before each election.

If you recently registered online, please wait at least 24 hours before checking your status.

California has two methods to verify the results of each election. Counties must use one or both to certify the results of every election.

• 1% Manual Tally: Elections officials manually tally all the ballots in 1 percent of the precincts, selected at random by the elections officials. For each race that is not included in the initial group of precincts, the elections officials count one additional precinct to include all races in the manual tally. The 1% Manual Tally is open to the public.
• Risk-Limiting Audit: Elections officials manually tally randomly selected ballots, stopping as soon as it is implausible that a full recount would show a different result than the ballots reviewed. Risk Limiting Audits are currently running as part of a pilot program in California.

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