Are you election confused?
Are you election confused?
by Christy Lozano
Well so am I. It’s not that easy, in fact it is difficult to figure out who to vote for, what district you are in, and which of the candidates you’d like to vote for are in your district.
So, I’ve not only set up a ten-step program to guide you through the process, but I have also included a three-minute video (below) outlining the ten steps visually.
Here we go:
Step 1) Go to the countyofsb.org website.
Step 2) Click on “departments.”
Step 3) Scroll down to “Clerk, Assessor, and Elections,” and click on it.
Step 4) Go to “Elections” and click on it.
Step 5) Click on “Candidate Filing Information.”
Step 6) Under “Candidate Filing Information” you are going to see something called “District Elected Official Lookup.” Click the button.
Step 7) Once on “Elected Official Lookup” page, you will find your city. I selected “Santa Barbara.”
Step 8) Enter your house number and street name. I put in “5401” for house number and “Tree Farm” for the street. Then hit return.
Step 9) “Tree Farm Ln” pops up as a street name below; click on it.
Step 10) You should now get on the page that lists all the election districts for your street address. It will show you every office that you are able to vote for.
See example below.
Here you’ll be shown all the areas you’ll be able to vote in and everyone you’ll be able to vote for. Christy Lozano (that’s me) is running for County Board of Education TA2, and if I am in your district, that will show up. If it’s not, there will be someone else’s name, or you’ll have TA3, TA4, for TA5 and those will be the people that you can vote for, so be sure to inform yourself of who’s running for what.
There you have it and may the best man (or woman: me) win!
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Christy Lozano is the right person at the right time. As a professor in multiple universities, I saw the results of students not receiving sufficient educational training. It is critical that we provide the type of education endorsed by Ms. Lozano.
Thank you, Christy, for sharing this information - very helpful, and "Good Luck"! Fortunately for all of us, we live and vote in California, which provides us with a mail-in ballot that lists all the candidates and ballot measures we are eligible to vote for. We also receive our mail-in ballots in time to research candidates and ballot measures we may even have been unaware of! Imagine living in a State where you can only vote on Election Day and where you may be seeing a candidate's name or voting measure for the first time and you have to "vote with your gut"! I am SOOOOO glad I live in a State that PROMOTES voter participation and does not look for ways to purge eligible voters from the rolls; where I don't have to stand in line for hours without food, water, or "bathroom breaks"! During my many years of military service I was stationed in some of those States, and voting there SUCKS big time.