Election Day is one week from today — but millions of California voters have already cast their ballots by mail. If you have a mail-in ballot, here’s where you can drop it off! For tips on how to make sure your vote is counted, watch our full video:
But first, here's the important part: Fold up your ballot, put it in the envelope, and sign the envelope — using the same signature that's on your driver's license. If you don't sign it, it won't count. Then, seal it up, and get ready to send it.Once your ballot is completed and sealed, you have some choices. First of all, you can bring it to your county elections office. In San Francisco, that's on the ground floor of City Hall.
Most counties also have official ballot drop boxes outside government buildings and other convenient locations. But as the name"vote by mail" implies, you can also just drop your ballot in the mail — at any U.S. Postal Service mailbox. Your ballot return envelope has the same official seal on it as the envelope your ballot arrived in, and that means the Postal Service will deliver it to your local election office with no stamps required. It will count as long as it's postmarked on or before Election Day.
If you lose your mail-in ballot, and there's no time to get a new one, you can vote a"provisional ballot" — which will get counted after Election Night, once officials confirm that you're registered, and make sure you didn't vote twice. The polls are open until 8 p.m. on November 8th. Then we'll have live results on NBC Bay Area, and right here at nbcbayarea.com.
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