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THE BASICS
National registry to vote or update your registration
California Online Voter Registration
San Francisco Voter Registration
There is no excuse! Thanks to California voters circa 2020, you can register and vote the same day in San Francisco. Go to City Hall or your polling place and tell them you want to "register conditionally and vote provisionally!"
People with felony convictions can vote! You can vote even if you're on parole. Re-register at Restore Your Vote.
Youth can (almost) vote! If you're 16 or 17, pre-register to vote, and your registration will automatically be activated when you turn 18.
VOTE BY MAIL!
Didn't receive a ballot in the mail? Make sure yours is coming to the right place by checking your registration at SFElections.org.
Adding postage to a prepaid mail-in ballot will not change how the U.S. Postal Service handles it: ballots are processed as First-Class Mail regardless of whether a stamp is added. I suggest you hand it directly to your US Post Office and hand it to a clerk.
You can also drop off your ballot. Drop off your ballot early at one of the 37 official ballot drop boxes across the City.
WHERE'S MY POLLING PLACE?
Where's your polling place? Check the Poll Time Map, call 311, or just go vote at City Hall. If you haven't been in a while, City Hall is worth the trip. Walk up the stairs in the Rotunda. Relax on a balcony, watch the weddings and quinceañeras happen, take a photo with the bust of Harvey Milk, that JM! Pride 2007 helped get installed at City Hall.
