If you haven’t voted yet, don’t panic. You still have time — though not a lot.
About three days, in fact.
That’s right, while it may feel like you only just received your vote-by-mail ballot, the 2024 statewide primary election is nearly over. Election day is on Tuesday, March 5.
And VMBs actually went out during the first week of February.
But look, we get it. You don’t mean to be a ballot-box procrastinator. You’ve had a lot going on: Work. School. Valentine’s Day. The Super Bowl. Plus, there are dozens of candidates to sift through for any given ballot and those campaign robo-calls are exhausting.
So you put your VBM on the coffee table and told yourself you’d get to it when you could.
Suddenly, however, the primary election is in the eleventh hour — and you’re scrambling to figure out how to vote.
Again, we get it. And we’re here to help.
Here’s a quick primer on everything you need to know about the statewide primary before election day arrives.
How to vote
Let’s start simple — by telling you how to vote.
There are two broad categories of voting in Los Angeles County: via VBM or the old-fashioned way, at an in-person voting machine.
Let’s start with the former. As long as you were registered to vote by Feb. 20, you should have received a vote-by-mail ballot from the county registrar’s office. This has become an increasingly popular way to vote, since it’s easy and doesn’t require you to stand in a queue. During the 2020 primary, for example, about 86% of votes in LA County came via VBMs.
The county registrar’s office had received 424,577 VBMs as of Thursday, Feb. 29, according to the California Secretary of State’s office.
Now, you can submit your VBM in one of three ways: As the name suggests, you can drop it in a mailbox or bring it to the post office. You can place it in one of the more than 400 dropboxes scattered across the county. Or you can deliver it to one of the 644 regional Vote Centers. To find a
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