Elections

League of Women Voters^®
of the Los Altos-Mountain View Area

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Upcoming Election:June 2012 Primary

Candidate Forums and Pros and Cons meetings are being held around Santa Clara County. For dates and locations go to the Leagues of Women Voters of Santa Clara County.

NEW 2012 REDISTRICTING
New district lines have been drawn for many public offices based on the 2010 Census data. The new districts will affect which candidates & contests appear on your ballot beginning with the June 5, 2012 Primary Election. To find your new districts, go to: County of Santa Clara Registrar of Voters; type in your address. The resulting page will give you your districts.

New Congressional House of Representatives District 18 includes Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Mountain View; new State Senatorial District 13 includes Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Mountain View; new State Assembly Member District 24 includes Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Mountain View.

NEW 2012 TOP TWO CANDIDATES OPEN PRIMARY ACT
Under the Top Two Candidates Open Primary Act, all candidates running in a primary election, except for the office of President of the United States, regardless of their party preference, will appear on a single primary election ballot and voters can vote for any candidate. The top two overall vote-getters, not the top vote-getter from each qualified political party, will move on to the general election. Additionally, candidates are no longer allowed to run as "independents" or "write-ins" at the general election.

For more about the new Top Two Candidates Open Primary Act which takes effect in June 2012 go to: California Secretary of State page on the new open primary.

Voter Information

SMART VOTER: Key in your address and zip code, see the contests on your ballot. Then click a candidate or ballot measure to find background information -- from the League and other nonpartisan sources. You can also find your polling place. Archives of past elections available with election results. Go to Smart Voter
Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters: Find your polling place, register to vote, request an absentee ballot, etc.
See more information on elections in California: preparing to vote, voting (in person, by mail, if you've moved), voting rights, results of past elections, etc.

Voter Information Guide from the California Secretary of State

The official versions of the Voter Information Guide for the June 5 election can be retrieved from the links below.

Voter Information Guide in PDF format

Audio versions are downloadable from the links below:

Message from the Secretary of State, About Primary Elections, Voter Bill of Rights, and other Voter Information pages (zip ~23.4MB)

U.S. Senate Candidate Statements (zip ~17.3MB)

Propositions 28 - 29 (zip ~47.448MB)

Register to Vote

Are you registered to vote? Do you want to change your party, your address, your name? We have information on voter registration.

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