This came over the wire from the Registrar of Voters’s office on Friday…

Voted Ballots Arriving

Voters Returning Vote-by-Mail Ballots Early

We have been receiving vote-by-mail ballots from voters for the June Primary Election. As of this afternoon we have received 238 ballots – we are expecting heavy returns to begin next week.

Neal Kelley
Registrar of Voters

OC Waste & Recycling

We have entered into a partnership with OC Waste & Recycling to insert poll worker volunteer information in waste hauler statements. These will go out this month.

Track Your Ballot

New info is available on our website, which will track your vote-by-mail ballot from mailing, to delivery, to return and final counting. This information is available 24-hours a day.

Cal State Fullerton Concert

Local OC Band Entertains Students

On Thursday, as shown above, our first “College Concert” kicked off at Cal State Fullerton with local OC band, Bristol to Memory. They donated their time and we recruited 74 students as poll workers for June.

Poll Workers 3,094  |  VBMs Mailed: 652,286  |  VBMs Returned: 283

Phone Volume Increasing

Our public phone bank volume is slowly rising although we are seeing fewer calls than two years ago. This is in part due to increased information on our new website. Our current call volume is averaging 380 per day. You can track our call volume in our new Data Central section under our Operations tab.

Current Voter Registration 1,607,941  |  REP: 678,643  |  DEM: 505,684  |  NPP: 352,691

Neal Kelley, Orange County Registrar of Voters

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Editors’ note: Normally we don’t run newsletter reprint in the middle of a Tuesday, but this one is particularly timely.  Biggest piece of news: absentee ballots have not gone out yet; the absolute earliest they could arrive is tomorrow, assuming they start mailing today.  In all likelihood, it will be even later.

This came over the wire from the Registrar of Voters last night (key portion: “we will be mailing out 650,000 ballots shortly”)…

Six Marks the Spot May 7, 2012 – Voting opened today for the June 5th Primary Election. Although we will be mailing out 650,000 ballots shortly voters can vote in our office in Santa Ana, and six did so today. It may not sound like a large number, but we have had a small turnout on the first few days of voting, only to grow into larger turnouts later in an election. In addition to our six in-person voters we have had 224 military and overseas voters return their ballots to date