Voter Registration Requirements and Forms:

You may register to vote in Ventura County if you meet all of the following requirements:

  1. You are a United States citizen.
  2. You are a resident of Ventura County.
  3. You are at least 18 years of age (or will be by the date of the next election).
  4. You are not in prison or on parole for conviction of a felony.
  5. You have not been judged by a court to be mentally incompetent to register and vote.
To participate in an upcoming election, you must be registered no less than 15 days before the election.

You must re-register to vote if you have moved, changed your address and or mailing address, changed your political party or changed your last name.

To become a registered voter you must complete and return a Voter Registration Form. You can obtain this form from many state and local government offices including the DMV. You may also visit our office in the Government Center or call us at (805) 654-2781 and we will mail you a form. Additionally, you may fill out a California Voter Registration Form on-line at the Secretary of State web site. The form will be mailed to you for signing and for you to send it to your county elections official. Click Here
(Warning: This is NOT On-Line registration.)

NEW STATEWIDE DATABASE REQUIREMENT: you MUST include your California Drivers License number (CDL) or California State Identification number, if you have one, on your Voter Registration Card. If you do not have a CDL or a state ID, you must provide the last four (4) numbers of your Social Security Number

For Military, Uniformed and Overseas Citizens (UOCAVA) registration and absentee ballet applications are available at the Federal Voting Assistance Program

You may also use the National Voter Registration Form to register in Ventura County.

The State of California Voter Registration Form, the UOCAVA form and the National Voter Registration Form, once completed and signed, must be returned to:

Ventura County
Elections Division
800 S. Victoria Ave.
Ventura, CA 93009-1200

Registration Purge Process

If a voter has not voted in any election within the preceding four years, and his or her residence address, name, or party affiliation has not been updated during that time, the county elections official may send a confirmation postcard to the voter's address with a postage-paid and self-addressed return card to enable the voter to verify or correct their address information. (1) If the voter returns the postcard updating their address in Ventura County then their voter registration remains active and the voter will continue to receive voting information by mail. (2) If the postcard is returned indicating the voter is no longer in Ventura County the voter registration will be canceled. (3) If the postcard is not returned within 15 days, the voters registration is placed in inactive status. The voter may have to vote a provisional ballot on election day if they still reside within Ventura County because their name may not appear on a precincts roster of active and inactive voters.


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