According to the web site it should be back online soon so definitely do check your registration. If you registered at a post office or in a grocery store parking lot in the last few years you are likely a permanent mail-in voter. I changed mine (re-registered) a month ago and verified it a week later. It takes about a week to process so everyone check yours ASAP and take screen shots.
"The California Online Voter Registration tool will be unavailable as we conduct regularly scheduled maintenance. The current date and time for the maintenance is as follows:
If you get a vote by mail ballot, do not forget to bring it with you. Make sure your friends and family know as it seems people are being changed automatically to "permanent" vote by mail and will have to follow the new rules to be able to vote in person.
Even if you receive your vote-by-mail ballot, you can change your mind and vote at a polling place on Election Day. To do so, you can:
Mark your ballot and seal it inside the mailing envelope provided by your county elections official. Be sure to sign and date the outside of the envelope in the space provided. Then bring the sealed envelope to any polling place in your county, or to your county elections office between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. on Election Day.
OR
Bring your unused vote-by-mail ballot to your local polling place anytime between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. on Election Day and give it to a poll worker, who will exchange it for a polling place ballot you can use instead.
If you do not bring your vote-by-mail ballot with you, you will not lose your opportunity to vote at a polling place on Election Day. A poll worker will provide you with a provisional ballot, which will be counted after your county elections official has confirmed you are registered to vote in that county and did not vote more than once in that election.
So USPS loses a ballot, and you’re in-person vote is second-class counted much later. And then someone else finds that ballot, votes, and your provisional is tossed. Great system.
Just tried to check. Website under maintenance. Not surprised.
According to the web site it should be back online soon so definitely do check your registration. If you registered at a post office or in a grocery store parking lot in the last few years you are likely a permanent mail-in voter. I changed mine (re-registered) a month ago and verified it a week later. It takes about a week to process so everyone check yours ASAP and take screen shots.
https://registertovote.ca.gov/
"The California Online Voter Registration tool will be unavailable as we conduct regularly scheduled maintenance. The current date and time for the maintenance is as follows:
September 27, 2020 7:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m."
"Down for maintenance" - why am I not surprised?
Writing code for if republican = exit.
If you get a vote by mail ballot, do not forget to bring it with you. Make sure your friends and family know as it seems people are being changed automatically to "permanent" vote by mail and will have to follow the new rules to be able to vote in person.
From the California state web site:
https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voting-resources/voting-california/if-you-applied
Even if you receive your vote-by-mail ballot, you can change your mind and vote at a polling place on Election Day. To do so, you can:
Mark your ballot and seal it inside the mailing envelope provided by your county elections official. Be sure to sign and date the outside of the envelope in the space provided. Then bring the sealed envelope to any polling place in your county, or to your county elections office between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. on Election Day.
OR
Bring your unused vote-by-mail ballot to your local polling place anytime between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. on Election Day and give it to a poll worker, who will exchange it for a polling place ballot you can use instead.
If you do not bring your vote-by-mail ballot with you, you will not lose your opportunity to vote at a polling place on Election Day. A poll worker will provide you with a provisional ballot, which will be counted after your county elections official has confirmed you are registered to vote in that county and did not vote more than once in that election.
So USPS loses a ballot, and you’re in-person vote is second-class counted much later. And then someone else finds that ballot, votes, and your provisional is tossed. Great system.
It takes time to rig a vote!
Clicked the link, the site is down. It re-directs here:
https://www.sos.ca.gov/down-maintenance/
I'm signed up as absentee voter for years. I ripped up my mail-in registration they sent me in the mail. I hope I didn't screw up.
LOL they just disenfranchised the people who plan to vote in person? LOL, perfect.
I have had to turn in my vote by mail ballot to vote in person before.
More republicans in this state than several others combined maybe?
There’s this thing called the House of Representatives.