Find Where to Vote, Check Your Registration and What to Do With an Unmailed Ballot

Election Day is here.

Many Californians already have cast their ballots. Slowly, but surely, the Golden State has turned to vote-by-mail; 65 percent of ballots were mailed in during the 2012 election and 58 percent during the last midterm election in 2010. Two counties, Alpine and Sierra, conduct all their voting by mail.

But for the proud, "I Voted" sticker-bearing few, enter your address below to find out where to vote.

You can also call your local county elections office.

Don't remember if you're registered to vote? You can check by county:
Alameda | Contra Costa | Marin | Napa | San Francisco | San Mateo | Santa Clara | Solano | Sonoma

If you still have your vote-by-mail ballot, don't mail it in. Ballots need to be received by 8 p.m. on Election Day, not postmarked. This mistake acounted for about 61 percent of uncounted mailed-in ballots in 2012.

What you should do is put the ballot back in the special return envelope and fill in the required information. Make sure you sign the ballot, and that the signature matches the signature on your voter registration form. Then you can turn in the ballot to any polling place in your county on Election Day. You can also authorize someone else to turn in your ballot by filling out the authorization box on the vote-by-mail envelope.

If you lost your vote-by-mail ballot you can vote at your regular polling place, call your county elections official for more information or cast a provisional ballot.