Find out more in our latest election newsletter.
Make a Plan to Vote Early!
(Dates for LA and Orange County)
10/1-10/5 Ballots mailed to all active registered voters
10/5 Secure ballot drop box locations open
10/24 Early in-person voting centers open
Return your mail ballot to a drop box or voting center. If you vote in person, go to early in-person voting centers. These are the preferred methods, but if you must mail your ballot, do so as early as possible.
Get Ready to Vote Early!
Verify you are registered, ensure your address is current, and your name matches your voter ID. Update your registration as needed. Take a screenshot showing you are an active registered voter to have a record in case of any issues.
Sign up to track your ballot at Ballot Trax. Ballot Trax will notify you when your ballot has been mailed to you, and when your returned ballot was received. You may select notification by text, email, or voice call.
Get informed about what’s on your ballot and start figuring out how you want to vote now, so you are ready to VOTE EARLY. See voter guides below.
USEFUL VOTING INFORMATION
If you know someone affected by the wildfires, here's information on how they can register to vote.
If you are planning to vote in person, you may want to use the interactive sample ballot before you go. This allows you to create a QR code of your choices and save time in the booth. Use this link to find out more.
LBI is setting up a few ballot parties at the end of October; there is one on October 20th. Join us if you want to complete your ballot with friends, guide materials, and ask questions.
VOTER GUIDES
The Blue Voter Guide helps you make informed, pro-democracy, and pro-working-family choices. Enter your address and this guide shows you the candidates and propositions on your ballot with endorsements from trusted, forward-looking organizations. In this guide you can mark your candidate and ballot proposition selections, save, come back later to make updates, print, and share. This is a great way to identify the propositions and races you want to spend more time researching and build up your sample ballot selections to be prepared to vote early.
The ACLU and Leaugue of Women Voters are two trusted nonpartisan organizations that have recently provided recommendations on the 14 CA Ballot Propositions. The ACLU CA SoCal voter guide has recommendations on 9 of the 14 CA Ballot Propositions, and the updated League of Women Voter’s CA
recommendations address 13 of the 14 CA Ballot Propositions. These key recommendations on the 14 CA Ballot Propositions are summarized in the table below.
The Cal Matters 2026 Voter Guide is a comprehensive source of non-partisan information that includes linked quizzes on the 14 California Statewide propositions so you can see which choices match your views.
The League of Women’s Voter’s CA Easy Voter Guide is a non-partisan concise summary of the Federal and State elected offices and ballot propositions in a simple and printable format.
If you would like to read our summaries of the ballot propositions from our last meeting and some basic information about elected officials, you can find slides available here.
PROPOSITION HIGHLIGHT: PROP 40
LBI has endorsed Proposition 40 which would make California’s billionaires pay a one-time, 5% emergency billionaire tax to prevent the collapse of California healthcare due the massive federal funding cuts to healthcare from Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill.
Prop 40 is a well structured (by tax and legal experts) one time 5% tax on CA billionaire wealth that will generate $100B to offset the $100B federal tax cut. Read more in depth reasons to vote YES ON 40 and NO ON 41 & 42 here.
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