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Resources to Help Spartans Vote

ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø encourages its campus community members to exercise their right to vote. Various departments at ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø provide resources to ensure voters can make informed decisions. You can find information about how to register and where to vote here.

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Register to Vote

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Key Special Runoff Election Dates (Santa Clara County)

  • The last day to register to vote for the December 30, 2025 Special Runoff Election and receive a vote by mail (VBM) ballot is December 15, 2025.

  • Missed the registration deadline? Same-day or conditional voter registration begins on December 16, 2025.

  • All Santa Clara County active registered voters will receive a vote-by-mail ballot for the December 30, 2025 Statewide Special Election. Your county elections office will begin mailing ballots by December 8, 2025.

  • Ballot drop-off locations open on December 8, 2025.

  • Vote-by-mail ballots can be returned by mail, at a drop-off location, or your county elections office.

  • Election Day (the last day to vote in the Special Runoff Election) is December 30, 2025. Polls are open on Election Day 7am-8pm.

  • Vote-by-mail ballots must be postmarked on or before Election Day December 30, 2025 and received no later than 7 days after Election Day. 
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ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø students and faculty, under the direction of the Institute for Public Affairs and Civic Engagement (IPACE), facilitate campus-wide efforts to mobilize the Spartan community to register and to turn out to vote. ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø Votes to learn about their programming and upcoming events.

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ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø Vote Center

Information coming soon. 

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Ballot Box Locations

  • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library
  • Dudley Moorhead Hall 
  • The Villages

*All ballot boxes are located outside the buildings

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Post Election

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