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Today is the last day to vote in the 2025 Statewide Special Election. As a reminder, you have four easy and secure ways to cast your ballot by 8 p.m.

  • Return the ballot to any of our 124 official ballot drop boxes by 8 p.m. or three staffed drop off locations by 5 p.m.
  • Use the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to return the ballot.
  • Drop the ballot off at any of our 66 Vote Centers by 8 p.m.
  • Vote an in-person ballot at any Vote Center by 8 p.m.

Postage is prepaid for ballots mailed in, but the envelopes must be postmarked by today, Nov. 4. Changes earlier this year to mail processing could result in the USPS postmarking your ballot with tomorrow’s date if you put it in the mail today.

To ensure your ballot is eligible to be counted if you want to mail your ballot today, you are encouraged to walk into your post office and request that a hand-stamped postmark be applied.

If your Vote-By-Mail ballot is damaged or you made an error marking it and haven’t cast it yet, you can still get a replacement ballot at the Registrar of Voters (1300 S. Grand Avenue, Bldg. C, Santa Ana) or any of our 65 other Vote Centers throughout the county.

If you are not registered to vote, you can fill out a conditional voter registration form in-person at the Registrar of Voters or any of our 65 other Vote Centers. You will then be issued a provisional ballot.

Before going to a Vote Center or our office to request a ballot, we encourage new voters who missed the registration deadline to register online, because it should help expedite the voting process when they arrive. Register to vote at ocvote.gov/registration.

For more information on completing or casting a ballot, visit ocvote.gov/voting.

If you need assistance with voting, call our Voter Assistance Hotline at 714-567-7600 or 888-OCVOTES (888-628-6837).



Bob Page
Registrar of Voters
 
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Tracking Election Results and Your Ballot
Tracking Election Results and Your Ballot

All Vote-By-Mail ballots returned, accepted for counting and scanned by today, Nov. 4, as well as in-person ballots cast at Vote Centers will be included in the 2025 Statewide Special Election results reports posted tonight.

The first election results report will be posted at 8:05 p.m. after Vote Centers close.

Tabulations from ballots scanned at Vote Centers are securely transported by two-person teams to regional collection centers. From there, two-person ballot collection teams each with a Sheriff’s Department escort drive the scanner storage devices to the Registrar of Voters in Santa Ana.

Updated results reports will be posted at 9:30 p.m. and every half-hour thereafter until all in-person ballots are included in the results. The reporting schedule is posted at ocvote.gov/schedule.

To monitor Orange County election results, please visit ocvote.gov/results. To view a live feed of Election Night operations or to view all results reports posted for this election, go to ocvote.gov/results-report.

Statewide results for Proposition 50 will be posted by the Secretary of State on its website at electionresults.sos.ca.gov.

After we post the last Election Night results report, we will estimate how many Vote-By-Mail ballots we still have to process. We also have a countdown clock on the Current Election Results page of our website so you can easily see when the next results report will be posted.

You can track your Vote-By-Mail ballot through the entire Registrar of Voters’ process with OC Ballot Express.

Sign up at ocvote.gov/track to receive text or email notifications about your ballot status. You can also use OC Ballot Express to look up the status of your ballot yourself. On our website, you will be asked to confirm your identity before you can sign up for notifications or check the status of your Vote-By-Mail ballot.

Note: If a large number of Vote-By-Mail ballots are returned on Election Day, it could take two to three days for you to be notified that your ballot was received by the Registrar of Voters as we get these ballots started in the process.
Why Does It Take Four Weeks to Count Ballots?
Why Does It Take Four Weeks to Count Ballots?

While California elections law for the 2025 Statewide Special Election prohibits the Registrar of Voters from certifying Orange County election results before Dec. 2, all but a small number of ballots will be in the results much earlier.

The Registrar of Voters does not count ballots slowly. And our counting has not slowed since California law required counties to mail a ballot to all active registered voters.

Since 2020 in each regular statewide election, the Registrar of Voters has reported the votes on at least 95% of all ballots counted from four to nine days after Election Day.

During the 2018 General Election, the votes from 95% of all ballots counted were not reported until 18 days after Election Day. This was due to the high number of provisional ballots cast in that election – 117,188 provisional ballots.

Orange County’s adoption of the California Voter’s Choice Act with Vote Centers and the use of electronic voter rosters on poll books have significantly reduced the number of provisional ballots cast in Orange County and allowed us to start processing them earlier. The most provisional ballots cast in an election since 2020 was 38,804 during the 2024 Presidential General Election.

When California elections officials finish counting all ballots is primarily a product of:

  • The deadline for California voters to cast a Vote-By-Mail ballot to be eligible to be counted
    • must be postmarked by Election Day and received by the county elections official from the USPS or other bona fide mail carrier up to seven days after Election Day*
  • When California voters cast their Vote-By-Mail ballots
    • some counties in prior elections have received half of all their Vote-By-Mail ballots on or after Election Day
  • How many days California provides voters to cure a signature challenge to their Vote-By-Mail ballot
    • for the 2025 Statewide Special Election, California set the cure deadline at 5 p.m. 26 days after Election Day (Nov. 30)

* Since Nov. 11 is the Veteran’s Day holiday, this deadline rolls over to Nov. 12.
Observe the Election Canvass
Observe the Election Canvass

The Official Election Canvass for the 2025 Statewide Special Election starts tomorrow, Nov. 5, and the public is invited to observe as the Registrar of Voters completes canvass activities.

All remaining ballot processing, counting, testing, and auditing will take place at the Registrar of Voters' office, 1300 S. Grand Ave., Bldg. C, Santa Ana.

The start dates for significant election activities can be found on the Election Observation Schedule Public Notice on the Registrar of Voters website at ocvote.gov/observe.

The Election Observation page also has:

  • a calendar that lists the daily canvass activities and expected start times
  • an observer guidelines handbook and quick reference guide, a ballot processing observation brochure, and observation FAQs
  • links to livestreaming video of ballot processing
  • a link to a library of short, recorded videos explaining observable ballot processing activities

The key remaining activities on the Election Observation Schedule Public Notice are:

  • The official election canvass starts at 10 a.m. tomorrow, Nov. 5
  • The random selection of at least 1% of all precincts in the county for the One Percent Manual Tally audit will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 6
  • The hand counting of all ballots in the randomly selected precincts to confirm the results is expected to begin no later than Friday, Nov. 14
  • The post-election logic and accuracy testing of all ballot scanners used in the election will start at 8 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 14 (test ballots are fed through each of the scanners to confirm they still count the votes accurately)
Use Your Voice for Voter’s Choice
Use Your Voice for Voter’s Choice

Orange County voters have one more chance to provide input on how their elections are conducted for the next four years.

On Thursday, Oct. 30, the Registrar of Voters posted an Amended Election Administration Plan (EAP) 2026-2029 for public review and comment at ocvote.gov/EAP – click on the Resources menu tab.

The plan is informed by public comment and feedback gathered since June 2025 as well as federal and state law, election data collected since 2020, best practices in election administration, and the County budget. The areas covered in the EAP include:

  • Voter education and outreach
  • Vote Center and ballot drop box operations
  • Accessibility and language services
  • Election security and contingency planning

The EAP addresses voter education and outreach, Vote Center and ballot drop box operations, accessibility and language services, election security, and contingency planning.

The Amended EAP 2026-2029 is available in English and in translated versions in Chinese, Farsi (Persian), Gujarati, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese, in accordance with federal and state law.

Comments on the EAP may be submitted until November 13 by:
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