How to change your vote in CA if you voted for someone who dropped out

[Liberty Belle]

or have changed your mind on you to support.

You can only do this if you still have a mail-in ballot, otherwise it is too late.

I emailed the Registrar of Voters in San Diego, MIchael Vu, so this might be different in other counties.

Vu says in San Diego County, you have two options:

1. Bring the marked ballot to your own polling place (not anywhere else), turn it in and request a new ballot.
2. Clearly cross out one name, and fill in the bubble for your new choice. As long as they can determine your intent, it will be counted, according to Vu. You could then turn in your ballot at any of the drop off locations (libraries etc).

I would recommend the first method. Although he didn't say this, I suspect marking two candidates might cause it to be rejected if they scan ballots, triggering a hand count, but who knows when they get around to counting any ballots rejected as "spoiled" ?

[Pachamama]

1. If you filled it out and changed your mind and haven't mailed or turned it in - Get a new Ballot!!!!

Go to your polling place or registrar of voters and request a new ballot and turn the one in you have - they will destroy it and give you a new one.

Marking a second candidate can put it in the category of ballots invalidated - not worth taking that chance of it not being counted.

[Retrograde]

2. They get around to counting the rejected ballots

i.e., the ones the machines can't read, after they run through the rest of the ballots, namely sometime between election night and when the final county results are due at the Secretary of State's office, 29 or 30 days after election day. California prides itself on trying to count every ballot. If you're a numbers geek, the SoS website has data on how many outstanding ballots each county has, updated sporadically whenever the counties send in new data.