How to vote in Los Angeles County, 3 November 2026

Verified 21 October 2026

Checked against California Secretary of State, General Election November 3, 2026, Secretary of State, vote by mail rules, Secretary of State, same day registration, Official Voter Information Guide, ID and registration requirements, Secretary of State, qualified statewide ballot measures, Los Angeles County Registrar Recorder, vote center information, Los Angeles County Registrar Recorder, news release of 21 August 2026. Their pages govern if anything here disagrees.

This page is for voters in Los Angeles County. Every date and rule on it comes from the Secretary of State or the county Registrar Recorder and was checked on the date in the stamp above. It takes no position on any candidate or measure.

The federal backdrop matters this year, so the bottom of the page connects the ballot to what ORM has reported: a Postal Service rule on mail ballots that a court has blocked, a federal voter ID bill that has not passed, and a state measure that would do much of what the bill would.

KEY DATES

• 5 OctoberCounties began mailing a ballot to every registered voter and opened official drop boxes.
• 19 OctoberLast day to register online or by mail. If you missed it, same day registration below still works through election day.
• 24 OctoberLos Angeles County vote centers open, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily through 2 November.
• 27 OctoberThe Secretary of State's suggested last day to put a ballot in the mail, seven days before election day, so the postmark is not in doubt.
• 31 OctoberEarly in person voting locations are open statewide.
• 3 NovemberElection day. Vote centers open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. A mailed ballot must be postmarked by today; a dropped off ballot must be in by 8 p.m.
• 10 NovemberLast day a ballot postmarked by 3 November can arrive at the county and still count.

HOW TO VOTE

WHAT IS ON THE STATEWIDE BALLOT

Fourteen statewide measures are on the ballot. The titles below are the official ballot titles from the Secretary of State, and the summaries are from the official voter guide. ORM has reported on the ones marked.

• Proposition 1Authorizes Bonds for Housing Affordability Programs. Legislative Statute.
• Proposition 2Increases State's Rainy Day Fund. Legislative Constitutional Amendment.
• Proposition 3Provides Permanent Funding for Schools and Health Care by Extending Existing Tax on High Incomes. Initiative Constitutional Amendment.
• Proposition 4Repeals Prohibition Against Public Funding of Election Campaigns. Legislative Statute.

  Would allow public money to fund political campaigns, which state law now bars.

• Proposition 5Changes Recall Election Process for Statewide Officers. Legislative Constitutional Amendment.

  Would change how a recalled statewide officer is replaced.

• Proposition 37Creates Loan Program for Middle-Income Buyers of Qualified New Homes. Initiative Statute.
• Proposition 38Authorizes Bonds for Immunology Medical Research. Initiative Statute.
• Proposition 39Prohibits Citizens from Voting Unless They Present Government-Issued Identification. Initiative Constitutional Amendment.

  Would require government issued ID to vote in person and would invalidate a mail ballot whose envelope lacks the last four digits of a designated ID number. The official guide estimates costs of tens of millions to low hundreds of millions of dollars a year. This measure would do at the state level much of what the federal SAVE America Act would do; that bill has passed the House and stalled in the Senate.

  ORM reporting: The SAVE America Act Was Engineered to Shrink the Electorate

• Proposition 40Imposes One-Time Tax on Certain Taxpayers. Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute.

  Would impose a one time 5 percent tax on taxpayers with assets over 1 billion dollars, with revenue mainly for health care. The official guide estimates tens of billions of dollars over several years and a possible ongoing decrease of under 1 billion dollars a year in income tax from the same taxpayers.

  ORM reporting: A Wealth Tax Needed Two Thirds. Proposition 40 Needs a Majority.

• Proposition 41Prohibits New State Taxes That Exclude Revenues from State Spending Limit. Requires Audits for New State Special Taxes. Initiative Constitutional Amendment.
• Proposition 42Prohibits New State Personal Property Taxes and Certain Retroactive State Taxes. Initiative Constitutional Amendment.

  Read alongside Proposition 40: it would bar the kind of tax Proposition 40 imposes going forward.

• Proposition 43Limits Voters' Ability to Raise Revenues for Local Government Services. Legislative Constitutional Amendment.
• Proposition 44Requires Community Health Clinics Spend 90% Of Revenue on Program Services. Initiative Statute.
• Proposition 45Modifies Environmental Review for Certain Projects. Initiative Statute.

WHO IS ON THE BALLOT

The contests below are the ones a City of Montebello address sees; the statewide, county, and judicial contests are the same for every voter in the county, and the city, school, and water seats change with your address. Names and ballot designations come from the Secretary of State certified list and the Registrar\u2019s qualified candidate list, with the community college and water fields from the county filing app and local press. ORM does not endorse candidates; the sample ballot the county mailed you governs.

FEDERAL

STATE

LOS ANGELES COUNTY

SUPERIOR COURT

CITY OF MONTEBELLO

SCHOOL BOARDS

WATER DISTRICT

COUNTY MEASURES

THE FEDERAL BACKDROP

WHAT YOU CAN DO

1. Make the plan now: pick mail or a vote center, and a day. Text PLAN to 528683 if you want the county to remind you.
2. Sign the envelope. A missing or mismatched signature is a common reason a California mail ballot is held, and it is fixable only if the county can reach you, so keep your phone and email current in your registration.
3. If you registered after 19 October or moved, go to a vote center and use same day registration rather than assuming your old ballot works.
4. Take someone. A neighbor who has not voted since 2024 may not know the vote center dates or that ID is not required.
5. Report a problem to the county first, at a vote center or through lavote.gov, and keep the ballot stub or the Where's My Ballot message as your record.

This page is rebuilt from a data file and checked against the official sources on the date in the stamp. If a date or rule here disagrees with the Secretary of State or the Registrar Recorder, theirs governs; write to letters@ourrevolution.media and the page will be corrected and the correction noted.