Voter Information

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Make Sure Your Vote Counts

The deadline to register to vote is 15 days before an election.
Citizens who are 16 or 17 years of age, but will be 18 by election day can pre-register. Click here to pre-register.
The Federal Voting Assistance Program is a federal voting assistance program for service members, their families, and overseas citizens. Provides access to election officials and voting assistance officers to help navigate the absentee voting process.
In California, persons with a misdemeanor conviction or a prior felony conviction can register to vote. If you have a conviction history, click here to check your eligibility.

Check Your Voter Registration Status

voterstatus.sos.ca.gov

Register to Vote

Online, at registertovote.ca.gov
If you do not have a signature on file with the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), you will need to print, sign, and mail the application.

On paper, using a Voter Registration Application – available at the Government Information Center. Or, contact the Department of Elections, your local post office, or DMV office.

Track Your Ballot

Track Your Vote-by-Mail ballot, subscribe to Where's My Ballot for real-time notifications.

General Election, November 3, 2026

Federal, State, Regional and Local contests. State Ballot Measures and San Francisco Ballot Propositions.

California Secretary of State

San Francisco Department of Elections

Federal Contests

United States Representative, District 11 (represents City and County of San Francisco)
United States Representative, District 15 (represents most of San Mateo County and the southeast side of the City and County of San Francisco)

State and Regional Contests

Governor
Lieutenant Governor
Secretary of State
Controller
Treasurer
Attorney General
Insurance Commissioner
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Board of Equalization Member, District 2 (represents Bay Area Counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Sonoma)
State Assembly Member, Districts 17 and 19 (represent City and County of San Francisco)
Justice, Court of Appeal
BART Board, District 8
State and regional ballot measures

Local Contests

Assessor-Recorder
Public Defender
Board of Supervisors, Districts 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10
Board of Education, 3 seats
Community College Board, 4 seats
Local ballot propositions

Accessibility Services

The Talking Books and Braille Center, located on the second floor of the Main Library, has Voter Information Guides in audio format. Please contact them at (415) 557-4253.

The San Francisco Department of Elections, located at City Hall, is committed to helping voters who need assistance casting a ballot before or on election day.

Call the Department of Elections for more information on this service:
Phone: (415) 554-4375
Fax: (415) 554-7344
TTY: (415) 554-4386

中文: (415) 554-4367
Español: (415) 554-4366
Filipino: (415) 554-4310

Be a Part of the Voting Process

How to Become a San Francisco Poll Worker

Non-Partisan Voter Guides

League of Women Voters Guides in English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean.
Voter’s Edge California is a comprehensive, nonpartisan online guide to elections covering federal, state, and local races in the state of California.
San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) is a member-supported non-profit organization that has ballot analysis and recommendations during election cycles.
CalMatters is a nonpartisan and nonprofit news organization bringing Californians stories that probe, explain and explore solutions to quality of life issues while holding our leaders accountable. We are the only journalism outlet dedicated to covering America’s biggest state, 39 million Californians and the world’s fifth largest economy.

Government Sites

San Francisco Department of Elections: facilitates all local, district, state, and federal elections.
San Francisco Campaign Disclosure: San Francisco Ethics Commission's pubic facing dashboard designed to help voters better understand who is contributing to and spending money to influence local candidate and ballot measure contests.
The California Secretary of State Elections and Voter Information: Information about registering to vote in California, voter guides and hotline numbers, past and upcoming election results, names of current representatives, as well as information on how to contact them.
United States Elections and Voter Information: The U.S. Government's Official Web Portal. Information and educational resources to help you with learning the election process and voting.
Federal Election Commission: Provides candidate, PAC, and party campaign finance summaries in their finance report disclosure database. Regulations as part of the Federal Election Campaign Act are also explained.

Fact-Checking

Annenberg Political Fact Check (FactCheck.org): Designed to help voters by “monitoring the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases.” Updated even when it is not election season. Includes information on special interest groups behind television ads.
Politifact: a Pulitzer Prize-winning website created by the Tampa Bay Times. The site rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others who speak up in American politics.
Snopes.com — Snopes is a fact-checking website, dating back to the 1990s, that specializes in debunking urban legends, rumors, memes, and tweets, as well as fact-checking news stories.
Mediabiasfactcheck.com: Media Bias/Fact Check is an independent online media outlet that evaluates the truthfulness and bias of various news sources from all points on the political spectrum.
NewsGuard (newsguardtech.com) — NewsGuard uses trained journalists and experienced editors to rate and review thousands of news and information websites based on nine journalistic criteria. The criteria assess basic practices of credibility and transparency.