News

Polls open across Riverside County for midterm elections

Published November 6, 2018 1:32 PM

Tuesday is Election Day for Riverside County residents registered to vote in the consolidated general election. Voters will be able to cast ballots at 584 polling places. To find your assigned polling place, please go to the Registrar of Voters’ website at www.voteinfo.net or call (951) 486-7200. Polls are open from 7 a.m. through 8 p.m.

{“url”:”https://twitter.com/JeremyChenKESQ/status/1059824332556455936″,”author_name”:”Jeremy Chen”,”author_url”:”https://twitter.com/JeremyChenKESQ”,”html”:”&#lt;blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”&#gt;&#lt;p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”&#gt;Voting is underway here in &#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/PalmDesert?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;#PalmDesert&#lt;/a&#gt;. Clear signs that it’s &#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/ElectionDay?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;#ElectionDay&#lt;/a&#gt;. Come out and do your civic duty. &#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/KESQ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;@KESQ&#lt;/a&#gt; &#lt;a href=”https://t.co/GYtqozk0JO”&#gt;pic.twitter.com/GYtqozk0JO&#lt;/a&#gt;&#lt;/p&#gt;— Jeremy Chen (@JeremyChenKESQ) &#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/JeremyChenKESQ/status/1059824332556455936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;November 6, 2018&#lt;/a&#gt;&#lt;/blockquote&#gt;n&#lt;script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″&#gt;&#lt;/script&#gt;n”,”width”:550,”height”:null,”type”:”rich”,”cache_age”:”3153600000″,”provider_name”:”Twitter”,”provider_url”:”https://twitter.com”,”version”:”1.0″}

You also may cast a ballot in the Registrar of Voters office on Election Day between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. The Registrar of Voters office is located at 2724 Gateway Drive in Riverside.

All ballots, including vote-by-mail ballots, must be received at the Registrar of voters office or any polling place within Riverside County no later than the close of polls on Election Day or be postmarked on or before Election Day and received no later than three days after Election Day to be counted.

Out of 1,040,218 registered voters, 748,532 have requested a vote-by-mail ballot. Voters who turn in ballots by Monday can be part of the Election Night excitement because results from their ballots will be among the first released after the polls close. Registrar of Voters Rebecca Spencer said approximately 175,000 voters already have cast ballots for the election.

Vote-by-mail ballots dropped off at polling places tomorrow will be counted in the days following the election. An estimated 200,000 ballots will remain to be counted after Election Day as a result of vote-by-mail ballots being dropped off or postmarked by tomorrow, and provisional ballots cast at the polling places.

The first results will be posted at around 8:30 p.m. when vote-by-mail and mid-day pick up results will be released.