All registered voters in Contra Costa County should have received their County Voter Information Guides and will soon receive their Official Ballots for the upcoming June 7, 2022 California Primary Election.
If you do not receive your ballot by May 20, email ballot@vote.cccounty.us or call 925-335-7800.
State Voter Information Guides are also either in the mail, or soon to be mailed, from the Secretary of State’s office.
Here’s what you need to know about voting in the upcoming election:
Register to Vote:
To ensure you receive a ballot in the mail, confirm that you are registered to vote and that your address is correct at cocovote.us/myvotinginfo. If you need to register or update your registration, visit registertovote.ca.gov.
After May 23, new voters will need to register and vote in person at the Elections Division in Martinez, at one of the County’s early voting sites, or at a polling place on Election Day.
Voting by Mail:
All eligible voters will continue to receive vote by mail ballots, and your return envelope is postage paid.
Put your completed ballot in the envelope, seal it, sign it, and mail it to us. Voted ballots returned by mail must be postmarked on or before Election Day and received within seven (7) days of the election to be considered timely.
You can drop your ballot in the mail, at one of the County’s 37 official drop boxes or at any of our in-person voting locations. Official drop boxes will be open for service when ballots are mailed to voters.
Voters can find a list of drop-box locations and early voting locations at cocovote.us/drop-boxes. Ballots must be dropped off no later than 8:00 p.m. on Election Day.
Avoid long lines and be sure your vote is included in the Election Night count – Vote early and mail or drop off your ballot so the Elections Division receives it by Friday, June 3rd.
You can track your ballot!
Ballot tracking is a service provided by the Secretary of State that will send you notices about your ballot, including when it’s mailed, received, and counted. Know where your ballot is every step of the way! Sign up at https://WheresMyBallot.sos.ca.gov.
“We want registered voters to know that the Elections Office is your trusted source of information about elections,” said Registrar of Voters, Debi Cooper. “If you have any questions about voting or elections, please reach out to us.”
For more information about the June 7, 2022 Primary election, go to our website at www.cocovote.us and select the “June 7, 2022 Statewide Election” icon, or call 925-335-7800 M-F 8 am to 5 pm.
Vote Republican, and vote in person. Simple
That’s how you guys lost last time. Simple. hahahahha
Ballot trafficking, the Democrat’s edge.
Find out who is woke and make sure you don’t vote for them. If you know a woke candidate let us know who he or she is.
Serious question what is the definition of “woke”?
From Merriam-Webster
woke -aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)
@concord Native…If you have to ask maybe just look in the mirror.
Woke candidates are easy to spot. They won’t answer any questions and refuse to tell you what their campaign causes are. Because they know nobody in their right mind would vote for them if they told the truth.
does the WheresMyBallot site know where my ballot is from the last election (the one where Newsom survived the recall)? It never came to me in the mail despite an email from USPS with a scan of the envelope, and when I went to vote in person a poll worker told me she had heard the same from many others.
Voting should be in-person and require an ID or thumbprint, except for active military on deployment.
However, the disabled and elderly should be allowed to vote by absentee ballot and must provide a thumbprint on the ballot itself.
No mail-in voting and no voting without an ID or thumbprint.
Everybody knows that that would be the best way to ensure that the election is legitimate and it would help keep voter fraud to a minimum.
Yet one side is vehemently against it. They’ll throw out all sorts of diversionary “reasons” that they do not want voter I.D required but it doesn’t take a genius to figure out what is really going on.
Too many refuse to acknowledge what is plainly obvious if one is honest with themselves.
The problem with voting in person is they moved my voting place from churches around the corner to a place two miles away even though they still held voting at those churches. I therefore prefer the mail-in though I actually drop-off. I also check each time if my ballot has been counted.
I’ve decided not to vote this year.
First time I’ve not voted.
I have lost all trust in the county and the state’s adherence to the law, every law.
I believe the election is already decided and that the individual, the personal voter, is no longer considered by the government.
I understand your frustration, but please vote. It’s the least we can do to at least attempt to get these people out of our laws. At the very least, please vote for a change in District Attorney. Those things matter, and neighborhoods and communities are getting destroyed by crime.
Unfortunately I can’t say that you are wrong.
Feeling the same. It’s all manipulated by special interests they sway things with their money including the manipulative language on the propositions and the commercial, mailers etc all funded by big money. My vote is just swimming upstream, why bother.
@Cellophane
I feel the same as you but am going to vote anyway. Then I’ll get to feel like WC—Creeker, that my vote is swimming upstream.
This is so convenient and transparent. I’m glad that, unlike some other states, access to voting is open and easy to all who qualify. Don’t believe the canard about rampant fraud.
I’m trying to find a way to contact my dead grandfather who keeps voting democrat, yet he never was one……..and he wasn’t two, or three either. Yet the votes multiply……….
@The Fearless Spectator…..Miss Cleo helped me years ago with a similar problem, you might want to look her up……
https://youtu.be/-ZwLG7yJg1g
We can’t mail or drop box the ballot unless it is within 7 days of June 7th or it will not be counted ??????? This is nuts!
Vote on the date unless you are disabled or elderly, anything else is just lazy
Make sure they’ve not attended any WEF (World Economic forum) conferences and they have Not received $$$ from either Klaus Schwab or George Soros.
It’s all just “conspiracy theory”…….until gas is $10 / gallon and you’re standing in food lines.
You have no reason to complain if you vote for the current status quo. Time for a positive change if you want California to improve otherwise it will continue its downward spiral at an accelerated pace.
I have absolutely no faith in the current slate of financially ignorant and morally corrupt politicians in Sacramento and neither should you.
For some reason they made the U.S. Senate vote(s) on our ballots rather confusing. On January 20, 2021 Kamala Harris gave up her U.S. senate seat immediately before she was sworn in as vice president. Governor Newsom appointed Alex Padilla in her place with his term starting on January 20, 2021. Due to technical and legal details related to the 17th amendment of the U.S. constitution, Padilla’s term as an appointed senator will end in November 2022 rather than January 2023 the way Harris’ term would have ended had she remained a senator.
That has resulted in two separate items on the ballot. One item is to vote for a senator whose term will run for about two and half months from November 2022 to January 2023. The other item is to vote for a senator whose term will run for six years from January 2023 to January 2029.
Unfortunately, the ballot items and Voter Information Guide explain none of the background I just provided. Here is what the ballot items and Voter Information Guide have:
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United States Senator / Regular Term / Vote for One
There are two U.S. Senate contests on this ballot.
One for the regular 6-year term ending January 3, 2029
One for the remainder of the current term ending January 3, 2023
You may vote for both contests.
(there’s a long list of candidates)
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United States Senator / Short Term / Vote for One
There are two U.S. Senate contests on this ballot.
One for the regular 6-year term ending January 3, 2029
One for the remainder of the current term ending January 3, 2023
You may vote for both contests.
(there’s a short list of candidates)
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The California Voter Information Guide (VIG) explains it as:
Two U.S. Senate Contests on Ballot
The office of U.S. Senate will have TWO separate contests on the June 7, 2022, Primary Election ballot. You may vote on both.
The first contest is the regular election for the full 6-year term of office beginning on January 3, 2023 (full term).
The second contest is a special vacancy election, since the current officeholder is temporarily filling a vacancy, for the remainder of the term ending on January 3, 2023 (partial/unexpired term).
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The ballot and VIG are both factual and correct. They are also mystifying without the background information that’s above.
I suspect the ballots and VIG were deliberately mystifying in an effort to improve the odds for Alex Padilla.
I’m gonna sit back and eat my popcorn and watch all of you squirm while we keep destroying your state and personal well being.
When I moved out of California I notified the County Registrar that I was moving, to take me off voter logs, on THEIR website. I received a mail-in ballot months later.