Elections & Voting

Elections & Voting

Register to Vote

Are you registered to vote? If not, visit the California Online Voter Registration page.

If you have recently moved, you can authorize the Department of Motor Vehicles to notify the Secretary of State to change your voting registration address when you use the DMV Change of Address page.

Ballot Lookup Tool for CA Voters

Voter's Edge California - Get the facts before you vote!

The League of Women Voters of California Education Fund has launched Voter's Edge California, a comprehensive, nonpartisan online guide to elections covering federal, state, and local races in the state of California.

As the November election gets closer, check in to see exactly what will be on your ballot. You can use the widget below to look up your ballot!

Using Voter's Edge California, voters can:

  • Access their full, personalized ballot by entering their address.
  • Get in-depth information on candidates, measures, and who supports them.
  • View candidate biographies, top priorities, answers to questions, photos, policy videos, endorsements, and detailed information about who funds their campaigns.
  • Browse unbiased explanations of ballot measures; find out who supports, opposes, and funds them.
  • Check where, when, and how to vote, including information on their local polling locations.
  • Keep track of their choices to make voting easier.
  • Share information about the election with friends and family.
  • Access a Spanish language version of the website.

How does it work? Enter your zip code and your street address to access your complete ballot. Your address information is confidential. We are nonpartisan, nonprofit, and do not sell information. Privacy policy.

Why use Voter's Edge California? We launched a prototype of the voter guide in California for the 2014 election, it received more than 725,000 visits--about 10% of the number of Californians who cast ballots in the election.

Easy Voter Guide

Easy Voter Guide CA (2016)The Easy Voter Guide helps new voters and busy voters learn about how to vote and what will be on the ballot in statewide elections. It also helps people learn how to make change in their community.

The information is provided in Spanish, Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, and Tagalog.

An Easy Voter Guide for the next election will be posted when it's available.