General Election Update

All Vote Centers are Now Open

All 92 Sacramento County Vote Centers are now open for November 3, 2026, General Election. Please visit the Vote Center page on our website for information on locations, days and hours of operation. Any eligible resident of Sacramento County can visit any Vote Center location to request a ballot, register to vote or update their registration, receive voting assistance, or vote with the accessible voting equipment. All Vote Centers will be open 7:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. on Election Day. Remember to vote early and avoid the lines!

Voters wishing to return their mail ballot still have time to use a Ballot Drop Box. Visit the Ballot Drop Box page on our website for more information on locations near you. Please check the times of these locations carefully; each Ballot Drop Box location has specific hours of operation. The ballot envelope must have the voter’s signature.

Those preferring to mail their ballot may use their pink, postage paid Vote by Mail envelope. Ballots must be postmarked on or before Election Day and received by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 10, 2026. The ballot envelope must have the voter’s signature.

To register to vote in California, you must be:

A United States citizen and a resident of California (for information on voters in the military or overseas, please see Military and Overseas Voters),
18 years old or older on Election Day,
Not currently serving a state or federal prison term for the conviction of a felony (for more information, please see Voting Rights Restored: Persons with a Prior Felony Conviction), and
Not currently found mentally incompetent to vote by a court (for more information, please see Voting Rights: Persons Subject to Conservatorship).

For more information, contact VRE at (916) 875-6451, email voterinfo@saccounty.gov, or use the toll-free voter assistance hotline at (800) 762-8019. The hotline has the ability to connect voters with disabilities with TTY (Text Telephone).

Key Election Dates

Key Election Dates
Date	Event
Now Open	Ballot Drop Boxes are open through Election Day, until no later than 8:00 p.m. See the Ballot Drop Box list for locations, days and hours of operation.
Now Open	All Vote Centers are open now through Election Day until 8:00 p.m. See the Vote Centers list for locations and hours of operation
Tuesday, November 3	Election Day – all ballots must be received or postmarked by 8:00 p.m.

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