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🗳️ Voter Game Plan: We're here to help you make sense of your ballot
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ORANGE COUNTY 2024

LAist has the voter guides you need to make your most-informed vote ever. We bring you up to speed on the core issues, explain what jobs need to be done, introduce you to candidates and follow the money that's fueling the campaigns.
Key Dates
    • Oct. 5

      Mail-in ballots go out

    • Oct. 21

      Last day to register online to vote. Register here.

    • Oct. 26

      Select vote centers open. Find Orange County locations here.

    • Oct. 29

      Last day to request a replacement mail-in ballot

    • Nov. 5

      Last day for mail-in votes to arrive at county election offices

    • Dec. 5

      All results final

Make It Make Sense: Election 2024 Edition

Our election newsletter helps you make sense of the choices on your ballot and what the results mean for your life in SoCal.

Explore Our Guides

Why you should trust LAist's voter guides
  • I’m Civics and Democracy producer Brianna Lee, and I’ve worked on LAist’s election coverage every year since 2016.

  • Our goal is to help people feel empowered and confident about their vote. That only happens if we give them clear, unbiased information about the races and measures on their ballot, centered on the issues they care about.

  • My colleagues and I work really hard to do that. For our 2024 guides:

    • More than two dozen LAist staffers across our editorial and product teams pitched in to report, edit, design and produce guides for L.A. and Orange counties
    • We started months in advance, reporting and researching as much as we could about the races, sending candidate surveys for city council and school board, watching forums, examining endorsements from all sides and analyzing campaign finance data, even for the most obscure items on the ballot 
    • We answer every single question voters send to us, whether it’s about how to evaluate judicial candidates or what color pen to use for their ballot
  • After every election, we take a hard look at how we can still improve and make our next voter guides even more comprehensive and useful. Have a suggestion? Send it my way.


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