When it is completed in 2016, California's VoteCal will replace the current California voter registration database and provide a single, uniform, centralized voter registration database that meets applicable Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002 requirements.
VoteCal’s many functions will provide improved service to the voters of California by:
- Connecting the Secretary of State and all 58 county elections offices together to improve the voter registration process.
- Providing a publicly available website which will allow voters to register online.
- Providing a single, official statewide database of voter registration information.
- System ultimately will allow same-day voter registration.
- 6-year-olds will be able to ‘pre-register’.
VoteCal implementation will begin with five pilot counties (El Dorado, Mendocino, Orange, Sacramento, and Solano) in July 2015.
The remaining counties have been grouped into a series of “waves”, and monthly wave deployments will occur from October 2015 to March 2016.
After VoteCal is deployed to all counties and the Secretary of State (SOS) validates that VoteCal is working correctly, VoteCal will be declared the official system of record for voter registration in the State.
The SOS expects this to occur in June 2016.
The VoterCal system will cover all 17.7 million voters statewide.
Also, there is pending legislation that would automatically register people to vote when they go to the Department of Motor Vehicles to get a driver’s license or renew one. VoteCal would make such a process possible.
Another VoteCal-dependent bill, Senate Bill 450, would require a ballot to be sent to every registered voter and allow people to cast ballots early at special voting centers. Secretary of State Alex Padilla and other supporters recently decided to table the bill. It will be reconsidered in January.
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