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Voter Registration – How and When

When to Update your Voter Registration

  1. If you take moved
  2. If yous take changed your proper noun
  3. If you wish to change your political political party preference
  4. If your signature has changed

Eligibility

You may register to vote if:

  1. You are a citizen of the United states
  2. You lot are a resident of California
  3. You lot volition be at least 18 years of age at the fourth dimension of the next election
  4. You are non currently serving a state or federal prison term for the confidence of a felony (for boosted information on the rights of people who accept been incarcerated delight visit the Secretary of State's Voting Rights: Persons with a Criminal History page), and
  5. You are non currently institute mentally incompetent to vote by a courtroom

Pre-Registration for Under xviii

If yous are under 18, you may pre-register to vote if you lot meet the post-obit qualifications:

  1. You are xvi or 17 years old, and
  2. You meet all of the other eligibility requirements to vote listed above

You will automatically be registered to vote on your 18th birthday.

How to Register to Vote or Update your Voter Registration

Online

For an online application you must provide your California Driver'southward license or State Identification number, date of birth and last four digits of your social security number. If the DMV has your signature and the information you provided matches their records, your signature will be provided electronically to consummate your application.

IMPORTANT: If the DMV is unable to provide your signature, the online system will give you a choice to submit an incomplete awarding or impress your ain pre-filled voter registration. Yous must sign and mail the completed course to your county elections office.

  • Online applications are considered timely for an election if submitted past midnight on the last day to register. If y'all are required to print, sign and return your form by mail service, please practise so immediately. Your printed application will include a date and time postage for our office to verify the timeliness of the application.
  • Please allow a minimum of 48 hours for online applications to process. Registration is not an automated procedure and requires individual review.
  • Brand sure all information is filled in correctly.

In Person

You may complete a Voter Registration Card at any Santa Barbara County Elections Office. (Not all offices have regular role hours. Delight visit the Contact U.s. page for more information.) Voter Registration Cards are also available at many mail offices, public libraries, Department of Motor Vehicles offices, and other regime offices.

Past Post

You may request that a Voter Registration Card exist mailed to yous by calling the Santa Barbara Canton Elections Office at 1-800-SBC-VOTE (1-800-722-8683) or email the request.

Borderline

Close of Registration

The deadline to register for whatever election is xv days earlier the date of the Election, but eligible citizens still accept the selection to participate even if they practice non register in fourth dimension. For more information, run into Conditional Voter Registration below.

Provisional Voter Registration

Overview

Eligible citizens who miss a voter registration borderline nevertheless accept the choice to participate. Under California Election Police force, Provisional Voter Registration (CVR) allows a prospective voter to register through Ballot Twenty-four hour period and cast a ballot.

Conditional Voter Registration must be completed in person at a designated elections function location. Please run across the Upcoming Elections Folio for location data for a specific ballot.

Process

  1. If a prospective voter misses a registration deadline, they accept the option to vote by visiting the designated elections office location(s) and completing a CVR awarding and voter registration.
  2. Later completing the CVR awarding and voter registration, the voter will be issued a election.
  3. In one case the CVR application and voter registration are verified, the registration will become active. If the voter is eligible to vote in the election and has cast no other ballots, the ballot volition be counted. The voter may then vote in any futurity election in which they are eligible to participate.