Make Sure Your Vote Counts! Some Advice for Mail In Ballots
From about 3% of total votes in California in 1966 to about 60% in 2016, absentee ballots have become the norm in voting. So, if you are voting this way, here is a little advice.
On the City of Irvine website, it states that vote-by-mail ballots should have two stamps. Some suggest the post office will still deliver with only one stamp (e.g., an announcement at a recent League of Women Voters meeting). But to ensure your vote counts, you should use two.
Then, you can use the website www.ocvote.com/track to make sure it has been received by the Registrar of Voters.
Alternatively, you can hand deliver a mail-in ballot to early voter stations. These include the following places:
Registrar of Voters Office
1300 South Grand Ave., Bldg. C
Santa Ana, CA 92705
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Irvine Civic Center
1 Civic Center Plaza
Irvine, CA 92606
Costa Mesa Senior Center
695 W. 19th Street
Costa Mesa, CA 92627
Fullerton Community Center
340 W. Commonwealth Avenue
Fullerton, CA 92832
Mission Viejo City Hall
200 Civic Center
Mission Viejo, CA 92691
Another option is to deliver it to the polls on election day.
Hope this helps.
