{"id":484364,"date":"2026-10-04T00:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T00:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/484364\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T00:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T00:18:10","slug":"nearly-2-million-ballots-are-on-their-way-to-orange-county-voters-orange-county-register-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/484364\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 2 million ballots are on their way to Orange County voters \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Election worker Oscar Garduno moves pallets of ballots from the...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/OCR-L-BALLOTS-1004-03-MS.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Election worker Oscar Garduno moves pallets of ballots from the Orange County Registrar of Voters\u2019 office in Santa Ana on Saturday, October 3, 2026, that will be loaded onto USPS trucks early Saturday morning. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Workers move pallets of ballots \u2014 more than 1.9 million...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/OCR-L-BALLOTS-1004-02-MS.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Workers move pallets of ballots \u2014 more than 1.9 million \u2014 from the Orange County Registrar of Voters\u2019 office in Santa Ana on Saturday, October 3, 2026, into USPS trucks early Saturday morning, ahead of Monday\u2019s mailing. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Workers move pallets of ballots \u2014 more than 1.9 million...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/OCR-L-BALLOTS-1004-01-MS-1.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Workers move pallets of ballots \u2014 more than 1.9 million \u2014 from the Orange County Registrar of Voters\u2019 office in Santa Ana on Saturday, October 3, 2026, into USPS trucks early Saturday morning, ahead of Monday\u2019s mailing. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 3<\/p>\n<p>Election worker Oscar Garduno moves pallets of ballots from the Orange County Registrar of Voters\u2019 office in Santa Ana on Saturday, October 3, 2026, that will be loaded onto USPS trucks early Saturday morning. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Orange County voters: Your ballot for the Nov. 3 general election is on the way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2026\/09\/30\/orange-county-elections-chief-expects-vote-counting-to-quicken-this-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Nearly 2 million ballots<\/a> were picked up early Saturday morning at the county registrar of voters\u2019 office in Santa Ana by the U.S. Postal Service. USPS will begin mailing out ballots to voters on Monday, Oct. 5, Orange County Registrar of Voters Bob Page said during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P6ft88mwXOI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">media briefing<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>There are multiple ways to cast a ballot when ready: Return it via the U.S. Postal Service (no postage is required, but it must be postmarked on or before Nov. 3 and received by the county elections office by Nov. 10), <a href=\"https:\/\/ocvote.gov\/elections\/ballot-drop-box-locations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">place it in a drop box around the county<\/a> or take it to <a href=\"https:\/\/ocvote.gov\/elections\/vote-center-locations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a vote center<\/a>, when those open later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Election worker Oscar Garduno moves pallets of ballots from the Orange County Registrar of Voters\u2019 office in Santa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1400,163,165,164,7,8,204,100,611,8047,13,338,136],"class_list":["post-484364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-2026-elections","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-california","tag-california-news","tag-election","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orange-county-elections","tag-politics","tag-santa-ana","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484364","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=484364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}