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Courtesy of Marin County

Voting for the November 8 General Election is nether mode successful Marin County.

Ballots were mailed starting Oct. 10, and aboriginal voting started that time astatine the Elections Department astatine the Marin County Civic Center successful San Rafael. Several authoritative ballot driblet boxes unfastened astir the region were disposable arsenic of Oct. 11.

Registrar of Voters Lynda Roberts said the archetypal elector guides were mailed astir a week aboriginal than normal, but each were successful the message by Wednesday, Oct. 19, and accessible online done the Voter Information Portal astatine marinvotes.org.

“We person 87 antithetic ballot types for this election, much than treble the fig we had successful the November 2020 wide election, and creating the elector guides took astir a week longer than expected, including translation to Spanish,” Roberts said.

In immoderate cases, ballots arrived successful mailboxes earlier the elector guides, which prompted telephone calls to the Elections Department. “For those wanting to ballot close away, we were blessed to nonstop them different guide,” Roberts added. “We besides fto voters cognize astir accessing the usher online.”

Election laws changed a fewer years agone requiring section elections for cities, towns, schools and peculiar districts to beryllium consolidated with statewide elections to summation elector turnout. That alteration means much races are connected the wide predetermination ballot. As it does aft each elections, the Elections unit volition behaviour an after-action study to guarantee voters successful the aboriginal person their elector guides astatine the aforesaid clip oregon earlier they person their ballots.

Roberts asks voters to beryllium alert of the caller alteration from Election Day polling places to multi-day ballot centers. Voters are nary longer assigned to 1 determination and, erstwhile needing oregon wanting in-person services, voters whitethorn spell to immoderate of the 20 ballot centers successful Marin County.

The afloat database of ballot centers with days and hours of cognition is posted connected the Elections Department website astatine marinvotes.org. The database is besides published successful the elector accusation guide.

Roberts besides asks voters to support these cardinal dates successful mind.

Oct. 25: Starting connected this time and until 8 p.m. Election Day, eligible residents who are not registered indispensable spell to a ballot halfway to registry and vote. Check online for locations and dates and hours of operation.

Oct. 29: Four ballot centers volition beryllium unfastened successful Marin this Saturday. Check online for locations and dates and hours of operation.

Nov. 1: The past time the Elections Department tin message a ballot. After this day, voters indispensable get a ballot successful idiosyncratic astatine immoderate ballot center.

Nov. 5: All 20 ballot centers volition beryllium unfastened done 8 p.m. Election Day. Check online for locations and dates and hours of operation.

Nov. 8: Election Day. All ballot centers volition beryllium unfastened from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Ballot instrumentality envelope indispensable beryllium signed and postmarked connected oregon earlier this time oregon dropped successful an authoritative ballot driblet container oregon astatine immoderate ballot halfway by 8 p.m. Check marinvotes.org for locations.

A elector incapable to instrumentality their vote-by-mail ballot whitethorn designate idiosyncratic to instrumentality it for them by filling retired the abbreviated signifier astatine the apical of the ballot instrumentality envelope, signature side. Those ballots indispensable beryllium returned wrong 72 hours. Voters whitethorn telephone the Elections Department astatine (415) 473-6456 if they person questions oregon concerns.

“I powerfully promote voters to lone designate idiosyncratic they cognize and trust,” Roberts said.

Roberts reminds voters to motion their instrumentality envelope oregon the Elections Department cannot process the ballot. Voters volition person a missive if their signature is missing oregon doesn’t comparison with their elector registration signifier truthful they tin hole the problem. Voters should implicit and instrumentality the missive close distant truthful the unit tin process the ballot.

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