Midterm elections: Monday is the last day to register to vote

to register to vote in the midterm elections. KTVU's Amanda Quintana is in Martinez now to explain this process and also tell you why if you don't register today, you can still vote. Good morning, Amanda. Good morning, yes. So today is technically the last day to register to vote online, but there is a safety net just in case you forget today or for whatever reason you don't get online today to do that, you do have other options to make sure that you can vote in that November 3rd election. So that would mean that you would have to conditionally register to vote and you have to do that in person and then you would fill out a provisional ballot. Now with this process, your ballot will be counted once your county elections office has verified your information. So if you miss today's online deadline, you still have 14 days to make sure you can vote. But again, you have to go in person to a voting site to do that. We are now two weeks out from election day and early voting already started two weeks ago here in California. Everyone already registered should have received their mail-in ballot already as well. You currently have three options to turn those in. You can mail them in, you can drop them off at a drop box, or you can go to an early voting location. Now, according to the State Registrar of Voters, More than 89% of Californians who voted in the June primary cast their ballot by mail. So, if that is you, remember to do things a little earlier. These ballots can be long in some areas, so make sure you're filling it out, paying attention to all of that, and getting it in the mail early. For now, live in Martinez, Amanda Quintana, KTVU Fox 2 News. All right, Amanda, thank you. And to talk more about this, we're joined now by David McEwen, our political science professor from Sonoma State hey David good morning good morning Dave happy Monday happy Monday this is this is a key day the last day to register talk about that and talk about the races we should be focusing on yeah i meant to add a nice lead in there i mean look there are three ways to cast your ballot if you've received your ballot obviously you can mail it you can have it in a drop box you can take it to uh then put it through the mail uh many voters though are worried about the processing through the mail so many voters are going to actually even though they're voting by mail normally they're going to actually go drop off their ballot for example at a ballot box uh as we look at key races obviously in the bay area some key races would be CD11 that would be the race to replace Nancy Pelosi between uh between Wiener and Chan if you look at CD14 that's the Eric Swalwell replacement where Aisha Wahab won the special election is currently fulfilling his term running against uh melissa hernandez there's some down ballot races that are hugely important uh i'm gonna talk about kind of the lead in there on what happens for some of these regional races look uh there's measure rtm that's the regional transit measure about in five bay area counties there's a lot of local measures for schools for libraries for what happens within counties there's some down ballot races in the insurance commissioner that no one's really paying attention to, but it's really hugely important in California. And then you've got 14 ballot measure propositions, obviously headed by the battle over Proposition 40. So all of those mean that you have to make a plan to vote. To do that, you can go to different resources and find out about different positions. And also, you can pay attention to areas and websites like vote411.org. You want to turn your ballot in early. You want to have a plan to vote because this is a very important midterm election. and we have to vote david you tell them so if you got if you do not register just to be clear if you don't register by today there is something that you can do to be a part of the process that's correct david if you haven't registered by today what you can do is you can go to your county registrar's office or you can go to a voting facility or a voting center you can ask to cast a conditional or place a conditional ballot that's really called a provisional ballot You're voting provisionally upon having that information you've provided verified. So there is a mechanism for this. And also, if you have one of your vote-by-mail ballots, you need that postmarked by Election Day as well. So that combination of being able to cast a provisional always exists here in California. We're very much about encouraging people to vote. And if you vote by mail, make sure you have a plan to get that in well before the postmarked deadline of Election Day itself. So now, you know, the main thing David McInnis says, you have to register to vote. Got it. You got it. All right. David McInnis, our political science professor from Sonoma State. Always good to see you on Mornings on 2. Pleasure to join you. All right, David.