County elections officers encourage residents to make an affect and Vote Local on National Voter Registration Day

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Multnomah County, Ore. (Sept. 15, 2025) — Join native election officers in Clackamas, Marion, Multnomah, Washington and Yamhill counties as we rejoice National Voter Registration Day tomorrow on Tuesday, Sept. 16.

We’re encouraging Oregonians to take a number of moments to make an affect and put together to “Vote Local” for the Nov. 4, 2025, Special Election.

First celebrated in 2012, National Voter Registration Day has grown right into a nationwide, nonpartisan occasion the place elections officers, organizations and volunteers be part of forces to make sure that our household, associates and neighbors are ready to make their voices heard by making a plan to VOTE!

County elections officers are encouraging voters to take these three steps:

1. Check your voter registration standing and ensure your data is updated at oregonvotes.gov. Voters ought to replace their voter registration any time they transfer, change their residence or mailing handle, change their title, or need to change their occasion affiliation. The deadline for on-line voter registration is Tuesday, Oct. 14, at 11:59 p.m.
    
2. Sign up for a poll monitoring service. As a voter in these 5 counties, you possibly can signal as much as obtain Track Your Ballot alerts through textual content, telephone, or electronic mail, so you understand when your poll has been mailed to you. After you vote and return your poll, you’ll be notified when it has been obtained and accepted for counting by your county elections workplace. Voters can join this FREE service at ballottrax.net/voter or be taught extra by visiting your county elections web site listed under.
    
3. Make a plan to VOTE for this election and the subsequent one! Because it is a particular election with out federal or statewide contests, not each voter may have an election this November.

   Visit your native county elections web site (multnomahvotes.gov in Multnomah County) to see if in case you have a measure or contest to vote on in your county, metropolis or district. Elections officers will start to mail ballots Wednesday, Oct. 15. Get ready and make a plan that features when you’ll obtain your poll, when and the place you’ll vote, and the way you’ll return your poll.

   Ballots might be mailed or returned to any open Official Ballot Drop Site within the state. To discover the closest drop web site close to you, go to oregonvotes.gov. Voted ballots have to be mailed with a sound postmark or returned to an Official Ballot Drop Site by 8 p.m. on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. We suggest returning your poll on to an Official Ballot Drop Site after Friday, Oct. 31.

For each election, county elections officers go to nice lengths to make sure the integrity, accuracy, transparency and safety of the election course of — guaranteeing that every one the federal, state and native elections we administer are accessible and safe for all voters. 

Did you understand when each poll return envelope arrives at certainly one of our workplaces it’s inspected for a voter signature?

The signature on the poll return envelope is in comparison with the voter’s signature on file within the state’s centralized voter registration system, and the signature should match earlier than the poll is opened and counted. If the signature doesn’t match or is lacking, you’ll obtain a letter within the mail with instructions on subsequent steps so we are able to confirm your signature and depend your poll.

Voters who’ve signed up for standing updates by means of Track Your Ballot will even be notified through textual content, telephone, or electronic mail in case your native elections officers are unable to just accept your signature, alerting you to get involved along with your native elections workplace. You can replace your voter registration signature by filling out a paper Oregon Voter Registration Card.

Your county elections official is a dependable supply for trusted and correct details about elections processes and voter data. We are ready and able to conduct November’s Special Election. We are able to depend your vote! Are you able to make an affect? 

To be taught extra about voting in your county and for extra details about the Nov. 4, 2025 Special Election please go to your native county elections web site listed under.