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San Bernardino County uses a voting system certified by the California Secretary of State. The State has developed one of the most strenuous voting system testing and certification programs in the country (https://votingsystems.cdn.sos.ca.gov/cert-and-approval/review-testing-overview.pdf). California counties are required to abide by these stringent rules and regulations regarding implementation and use of a voting system.
It’s California state law. Assembly Bill 969 prohibits manual vote counting for most elections. However, during the canvass of every election, ROV hand-counts ballots in at least one percent of the precincts and voted mail ballots to audit the accuracy of the ballot scanners.
It’s the law. California Elections Code mandates specific file maintenance procedures for keeping voter records up-to-date. Not only does the Registrar of Voters perform the state-mandated procedures, but the Registrar of Voters performs a number of optional daily, weekly, and monthly internal audits to identify potential duplicate registration records and invalid registration information.
ROV receives information on deceased voters when notified by the Department of Public Health, the Secretary of State, or third-party notifications, such as the spouse of the deceased, and when notified, ROV processes this information.
By law, ROV sends a notification to voters who have been identified as deceased, serving a prison term for a felony conviction, or those found mentally incompetent to vote 15 to 30 days prior to cancellation. If a signed response from the voter is not received, the record will be cancelled after the response period has passed.
If you receive a ballot at your address for someone who does not live there, please write “Not at This Address” on the envelope and place it in the outgoing mail.
At polling places, voters will be able to mark their choices using a ballot marking device that will print the ballot after the voter makes their choices. Voters will cast their paper ballot by placing it in a green ballot box.
No. According to California Elections Code section 19205, “no part of a voting system shall be connected to the internet at any time, or electronically receive or transmit election data through any exterior communications network.”
San Bernardino County uses an air-gapped system in its ballot tabulation rooms, meaning the ballot counting equipment is never connected to the internet and is completely separated from any other network. There are no routers connected to the tabulation system and there never have been.
Voters receive the status of their ballot by signing up for BallotTrax on the Secretary of State’s website. When voters vote at polling places, they check-in using an electronic roster, which sends a message to BallotTrax, and BallotTrax sends the voter a standardized status message that San Bernardino County cannot change.
No. Certification follows the system configuration, not the ownership structure of the vendor. The systems in use remain fully certified by the California Secretary of State. The acquisition did not introduce any hardware or software changes that would alter that certification status.
No additional certification or testing is required. Because there have been no technical modifications to the certified systems, counties can continue using their equipment as usual. Any future system updates or changes would undergo the established state certification process before deployment.
No. The acquisition involved ownership and management, not system design. The hardware, software, firmware, and operational procedures remain identical to those certified and deployed.
Election system integrity is governed by strict state standards, not by ownership. Liberty Vote is bound by the same legal, contractual, and technical obligations as Dominion, including security standards, source code escrow, chain-of-custody protocols, and independent testing. Secretary of State oversight remains unchanged and fully in place.
Future updates will continue to follow the established State of California certification procedures.
The hole in the mail ballot identification envelope is designed to help ensure that voted ballot cards are not inadvertently left inside the envelope. For the 2025 Statewide Special Election, this hole does not align with any voting targets on the ballot. However, if voters are concerned about the visibility of their selections through the opening, they may fold their ballot with the voting side facing inward.
Ballots presented in a single language offer a clearer and more streamlined voting experience. By eliminating the visual complexity of multiple languages on the same ballot, voters can more easily navigate the content, understand their choices, and cast their votes with greater confidence and accuracy. Voters can check and update their language preference using My Voter Status at VoterStatus.sos.ca.gov. Voters may also re-register by paper application or online to update their language preference.
Voters who wish to receive a replacement ballot in a different language may contact the Registrar of Voters office to request one.