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July 26, 2018 -- Pursuant to California Election Code section 15360 (d) this serves as public notice that we will be conducting a random draw of 1% of our precincts in the August 7, 2018 32nd Senate District Special Election to be used in a manual tally of votes cast. This manual tally is used to verify the electronic tally of our voting system and the vote-by-mail tally system. The random draw will occur on Wednesday, August 8, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. The manual tallies will follow the random draw and will take place until complete. Both processes are open to the public.

May 26, 2018 - Pursuant to California Election Code section 15360 (d) this serves as public notice that we will be conducting a random draw of 1% of our precincts in the June 5, 2018 Statewide Primary Election to be used in a manual tally of votes cast. This manual tally is used to verify the electronic tally of our voting system and the vote-by-mail tally system. The random draw will occur on Thursday, June 7, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. The manual tallies will follow the random draw and will take place until complete. Both processes are open to the public.

April 5, 2018 - As we continue the detailed and complex process of building the ballot it has become quickly apparent that most, if not all, ballot types in Orange County will stretch to 3-pages (unlike 2016 when most ballot types were 2-pages).

The reason for this is pretty straightforward - for instance:

April 1, 2018 - It is increasingly difficult to recruit polling places, for a variety of reasons. For instance, a long-time polling place in an apartment complex clubhouse, located in Westminster (since 1994), recently told us that they no longer wanted to be a polling place due to parking and "space concerns". Voters don't understand these changes and dynamics, which make it demanding for voters and us alike.

March 30, 2018 - In just a few days visitors to DMV will experience a new addition when conducting transactions – proactive voter registration options. In 2015 California’s new “Motor Voter” bill was signed into law. However, it could not go into effect until California’s statewide voter database was operational and data issues were solved.

March 24, 2018 - California has one of the most complicated rotation laws in the country - the order of candidates on the ballot will rotate, depending on where voters live in Orange County.  For most contests we arrange the names of the candidates according to the randomized alphabet for the First Assembly District.  Then for each succeeding Assembly District, the name appearing first in the last preceding Assembly District will be placed last, while the order of the other names will remain unchanged. Got all of that?

December 9, 2016 - Today the City of San Clemente officially withdrew their request for a recount of the ballots cast in the 2016 November 8th General Election, Measure OO - City of San Clemente, Increase in "Hotel" Guest Tax contest.

The recount was scheduled to begin on Monday, December 12, 2016 beginning at 9 a.m. and is now cancelled. The final, official certified results of the San Clemente election can be found on our website at ocvote.com.

December 7, 2016 - Pursuant to California Elections Code section 15628 the Orange County Registrar of Voters will be conducting a recount of the ballots cast in the 2016 November 8th General Election, Measure OO - City of San Clemente, Increase in "Hotel" Guest Tax contest.

December 6, 2016 – Registrar of Voters Neal Kelley has just certified the official results of the Presidential General Election held on November 8, 2016.

Total turnout from the election was 80.7% with 45.3% of voters casting their ballot by mail and 33.6% of voters voting in their polling place. 2% of voters chose to vote early in one of six Orange County Vote Centers. In the 2012 Presidential General overall turnout was 67.3%, vote-by-mail voting was 34.2% and polling place voting was 32.8%.

November 27, 2016 - Overall turnout for the 2016 Presidential Election is currently 10.2% higher than the 2012 Presidential Election. Overall turnout for the 29th State Senate District is 12.9% higher than the 2012 Presidential Election. A fact often overlooked is our extensive list maintenance that took place in 2013 - reducing overall registration by 350,000 countywide. The practical effect? In 2012, a precinct with 500 registered voters and 135 voters voting, would show a turnout of 26%.