Vote by Mail

In California, all active registered voters are mailed a ballot before each election.

• Mail ballots for the November 4, 2025, Statewide Special Election are delivered to the United States Postal Service on October 6, 2025

If you lose, damage, or mismark your ballot, you may request a replacement ballot by:

• Submitting a Replacement Mail Ballot Application [pdf]
  • This application may be returned in person, by mail, by fax or by email.
  • Official ballots may be picked up beginning Monday, October 6
• Visiting the Registrar of Voters office, October 6 through November 4
  • Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
  • Election Day, Tuesday, November 4, 7 a.m. – 8 p.m.
• Visiting an Early Vote site
• Authorizing another person to pick-up your mail ballot with an Application to Provide Vote-By-Mail Ballot to an Authorized Representative [pdf]
  • Official ballots may be picked up beginning Monday, October 6

Mail Ballots delivered to the U.S. Post Office:

• October 6 for the November 4, 2025, Statewide Special Election

Voters with disabilities may vote independently, using their computer, to mark an accessible ballot.

• Vote on an accessible ballot [available soon] for the November 4, 2025, Statewide Special Election

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Return a voted mail ballot for the November 4, 2025, Statewide Special Election:

• At a Mail Ballot Drop-off Location
  • View the list of Mail Ballot Drop-off Locations [available soon]
  • View a map of Mail Ballot Drop-off Locations [available soon]
  • Ballots must be delivered no later than 8 p.m. on Tuesday, November 4, 2025
• By mail via the U.S. Postal Service
  • No postage required
  • Ballots must be postmarked on or before Tuesday, November 4, 2025, and received by the Registrar of Voters within seven days following the election.
• Drop off at an Early Vote site
• Drop off at any Polling Place [available soon] on Election Day

Check the status of your voted Mail Ballot using the Mail Ballot Status tool using My Elections Gateway.

Sign up for Where’s My Ballot? to receive email, text, or voice call notifications to track your ballot.

When the Registrar of Voters receives a voted mail ballot or provisional ballot without the voter’s signature on the identification envelope or is unable to compare the voter’s signature on the return envelope with the signature on file in the voter’s record, the Registrar of Voters is unable to count that ballot. However, California law allows voters another chance to correct their mail ballot or provisional ballot up until two days before the election results are certified. These voters are notified by mail that they may:

• Go to the Registrar of Voters in person to sign the mail ballot or provisional ballot identification envelope or sign the Signature Verification and Unsigned Identification Envelope Statement;
• Complete and return a Signature Verification and Unsigned Identification Envelope Statement; or
• Fix the unsigned ballot identification envelope online [available soon].

If you received a letter from the Registrar of Voters stating that your mail ballot or provisional ballot return envelope was not signed or your signature did not compare with your signature on file, complete and return an Signature Verification and Unsigned Identification Envelope Statement immediately.

For mail ballots:

• Signature Verification and Unsigned Identification Envelope Statement – 2025 Statewide Special Election [available soon]

For provisional ballots:

• Signature Verification and Unsigned Identification Envelope Statement – 2025 Statewide Special Election [available soon]