National Voter Registration Day is Tuesday, September 22

National Voter Registration Day is Tuesday, September 22, and the Santa Cruz County Clerk’s office and volunteers will be registering voters at local libraries and during a car caravan.

“National Voter Registration Day is the largest one-day effort to register voters in the United States, and we are excited to team up with our local libraries and volunteers from Santa Cruz Indivisible to encourage our citizens to sign up to vote,” County Clerk Gail Pellerin said noting the deadline to register for the November 3, 2020 Presidential General Election is October 19, 2020.

The following library locations will have voter registration cards available curbside from 11am to 1pm:

• Aptos – 7695 Soquel Dr., Aptos.
• Downtown Santa Cruz – 224 Church St., Santa Cruz.
• Felton – 6299 Gushee St., Felton.
• Live Oak – 2380 Portola Dr., Santa Cruz.
• Scotts Valley – 251 Kings Village Rd., Scotts Valley.
• Watsonville – 275 Main St., Suite 100, Watsonville.

There will be a car caravan in Santa Cruz and Watsonville from 5pm to 6:30pm.

The Santa Cruz route starts at the River Street Gateway Plaza and will go down River Street to Soquel to Front Street, then through the downtown area then back up River Street.

The Watsonville route starts at the Target parking lot and goes to City Plaza then back up Freedom to Green Valley Road.

Voters may also register to vote online at registertovote.ca.gov. They may also come to the Santa Cruz County Clerk/Elections Department located at 701 Ocean Street, Room 310 in Santa Cruz from 8am to 5pm and register to vote. It is important for people to re-register to vote if they change their name, move, or want to change their political party.

Every year millions of Americans don’t claim their right to vote because they miss a deadline, move, change names, or don’t know how to register in the first place. With over a quarter of Americans not voting at all, National Voter Registration Day is an occasion for community institutions, voters and election leaders to build a more representative democracy.

For more information on our local NVRD event, please visit our website at www.votescount.us, email us at info@votescount.us or call us at 831-454-2060.