Edhat StaffSource: County of Santa Barbara
In celebration of National Voter Registration Day on Tuesday, September 26, Registrar of Voters Joe Holland encourages Santa Barbara County residents to exercise their right as citizens and make sure they are registered to vote. The deadline to register to be eligible to vote in the upcoming November 7 city of Santa Barbara Municipal Election is Monday, October 23.
A voter must re-register if his or her name or residence address has changed. To verify your registration status, go to the Registrar of Voters website at www.sbcvote.com and open the “Voter Registration Lookup” link.
To register to vote in California, one must be:
- A United States citizen,
- A resident of California,
- Age 18 years or older on Election Day,
- Not currently imprisoned or on parole for the conviction of a felony (for more information on the rights of people who have been incarcerated, please see the Secretary of State’s Voting Rights for Californians with Criminal Convictions or Detained in Jail or Prison), and
- Not currently found to be mentally incompetent by a court of law.
To pre-register to vote in California, one must be age 16 or 17, and meet all of the other eligibility requirements to vote. Pre-registrants will automatically be registered to vote on their 18th birthday.
Registering to vote is simple. Eligible citizens can register online at the Secretary of State’s website at registertovote.ca.gov. Most public libraries, post offices and Department of Motor Vehicles offices have voter registration forms. Eligible citizens can also register in person at the County Registrar of Voters offices at:
- Santa Barbara: 4440‐A Calle Real (corner of Calle Real and Honor Farm Rd)
- Santa Maria: 511 E. Lakeside Parkway
Many local libraries are holding special registration drives on Tuesday, Sept. 26 in coordination with the League of Women Voters, including those listed below.
Buellton Library
140 West CA-Hwy 246, Buellton 93427 from 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Carpinteria Library
5141 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria 93013 from 10 a.m.- 5:30 p.m.
Central Library
40 East Anapamu St., Santa Barbara 93101 from 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Eastside Library
1102 East Montecito St., Santa Barbara 93103 from 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Goleta Library
500 North Fairview Ave., Goleta 93117 from 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Montecito Library
1469 East Valley Rd., Montecito 93108 from 10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Solvang Library
1745 Mission Dr., Solvang 93463 from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Local businesses are urged to add a Register to Vote button to their website as shown above. For directions, go to the Secretary of State website at http://www.sos.ca.gov/.
National Voter Registration Day is a one‐day effort by volunteer citizens, businesses and organizations to create awareness of voter registration and voting. Started in 2012, it is held every fourth Tuesday in September—before voter registration deadlines nationwide—and is designed to remind and encourage eligible Americans to prepare to exercise their most basic civil right, their right to vote. For more information about National Voter Registration Day, go to https://nationalvoterregistrationday.org/.
I understood perfectly well and I also understood (but obviously not you) that NO ONE and NOWHERE in what you quote is there any requirement to PROVE that you are a US Citizen.
My prior neighbor, Brazilian citizen , “green card” resident was registered to vote.
Voting fraud is MASSIVE in California and that is why Dems. will always oppose any attempt to check on Citizenship for those registered to vote…
In every other “developed” country in the world you have to PROVE your citizenship before you can vote.
The only one where this is NOT the case is the US ..
And people with this level of intellect are allowed to vote. Scary.
What document can anyone provide to prove US citizenship? The answer is none. We do not have a national ID and or any system of registering individuals nationally at birth. Even a social security number is not considered ID. The voting system is designed to have this sort of corruption and I would bet money that there is not one person that shows up to this that speaks english as their first language. Thats a great sign.
The evidence is that there is virtually no election fraud. To infer from “there’s no requirement to prove that you are a citizen” that “yes indeed, voter fraud is gigantic in California”requires a level of stupidity that is hard to fathom. It’s like saying that, because people aren’t required to prove that they aren’t bank robbers before entering a bank, that bank robbery is gigantic.
Voter fraud is a felony, and so there would have to be a “gigantic” motivation for people to engage in it, but in fact voting is a pain in the butt with so little payoff that a large fraction of the population who could vote don’t.
And as can be seen by reading this piece : NOWHERE is there any requirement to PROVE that you are indeed a US citizen when registering to vote.
So, yes indeed, voter fraud is gigantic in California ..
What part about “To register to vote in California, one must be:
A United States citizen,
A resident of California,
Age 18 years or older on Election Day,
Not currently imprisoned or on parole for the conviction of a felony (for more information on the rights of people who have been incarcerated, please see the Secretary of State’s Voting Rights for Californians with Criminal Convictions or Detained in Jail or Prison), and
Not currently found to be mentally incompetent by a court of law.”
did you not understand?
When I worked at social services anybody voter registration packets. last time i was there they were sitting out in the lobby for anyone .