Warning Monday that it’s too late to mail in vote-by-mail ballots, Sacramento County Registrar of Voters Jill LaVine urged voters to make sure their votes count by dropping off their ballots at any polling place in the county on election day, between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m.
“All ballots must be in our office or dropped off at a Sacramento County Polling Place [by 8 p.m. Tuesday] in order to be counted for this election,” read Monday’s press release from the Registrar of Voters. “Postmarks do not count.”
In the June Primary election this year, Sacramento County election officials said over 1,000 vote-by-mail ballots were delivered too late to be counted, as state law currently does not allow ballots received after polls closed to be counted.
Senate Bill 29, signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown this year, hopes to get these late ballots counted, but doesn’t come into effect until January 1, 2015. The new law will allow for ballots “postmarked on or before election day” to be counted — as long as they are received within three days after the election.
To find the nearest polling place to drop off a vote-by-mail ballot, voters can call the Registrar’s office at (916) 875-6451, visit www.elections.saccounty.net, or use the SacVote mobile app.
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