{"id":300309,"date":"2026-05-05T04:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T04:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/300309\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T04:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T04:44:10","slug":"cas-june-primary-ballots-are-hitting-mailboxes-heres-what-voters-need-to-know-long-beach-post-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/300309\/","title":{"rendered":"CA&#8217;s June primary ballots are hitting mailboxes. Here&#8217;s what voters need to know. \u2022 Long Beach Post News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally <a href=\"https:\/\/laist.com\/news\/politics\/2026-election-california-primary-county-ballot-deadline\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">published by LAist<\/a> on May 4, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Keep an eye out at your mailbox: Today<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sos.ca.gov\/elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u00a0is the deadline<\/a>\u00a0for California counties to begin mailing ballots for the upcoming primary election on June 2.<\/p>\n<p>Already have yours?\u00a0Nice. If you\u2019ve already received your ballot, that\u2019s because some counties got ahead of the deadline to mail them.<\/p>\n<p>Need to register?\u00a0The last day to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/registertovote.ca.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">register or update your registration address<\/a>\u00a0is May 18,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/laist.com\/news\/politics\/voter-guides\/voter-guides-and-sample-ballots-are-on-their-way\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">but same-day registration<\/a> is also available in person at county elections offices, polling places and vote centers. You can register at <a href=\"https:\/\/lavote.gov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lavote.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mailing in?\u00a0The Secretary of State\u2019s Office recommends voters who want to mail in their ballots do that at least one week before Election Day on June 2.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t stress.\u00a0We\u2019ve got all your voting questions covered with our Voter Game Plan.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/laist.com\/news\/politics\/voter-guides\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Our guides<\/a> have started publishing, but you can jump directly to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/elections\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long Beach<\/a>,\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/laist.com\/news\/politics\/voter-guides\/2026-election-california-primary-los-angeles-county\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">L.A.\u00a0<\/a>or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/laist.com\/news\/politics\/voter-guides\/2026-election-california-primary-orange-county\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">O.C.<\/a>\u00a0guides. Check in regularly to see what\u2019s new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This article was originally published by LAist on May 4, 2026. Keep an eye out at your mailbox:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-300309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}