 So today we'll be covering the contents you see on your screen. We will do a quick recap of how certain processes have changed this year and what you need to know about voting this year. We'll review some information about voter registration when you can vote in person. We'll go over specifics for voters choice act counties. We'll go ahead and understand why folks would want to vote in person this year, how to vote in person. We'll talk about safety and security amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. We'll talk about your rights at the ballot box. And then before we close, we'll go over some resources and upcoming information and events for you all. So without further ado, I'm going to go ahead and pass it on to Omer. Thank you so much. Hey, everyone. Hope you all are doing well. My name is Omer Khan. Today we're going to talk about, of course, voting in person, but I do just want to mention, of course, you can still vote by mail this election. For voting by mail, that will start October 5th. And if you haven't received your ballot in the mail by October 12, please make sure you contact your county elections office. And if you visit the tiny URL link that we have there for you, which we will also drop in our comments boxes for everyone watching on Facebook and Zoom. We'll put that in there. And that'll allow you to go directly to the county elections link from the Secretary of State's office and then you just click for your particular county. And we strongly recommend, we mentioned this on the last webinar, really recommend everyone focus on their local county office because that gives you the most best information for you specifically. Now, voting in person, you can still vote at your local polling place. That information should be listed on the back of the information guide that you received, the voter information guide, and say you don't have it, say you might have misplaced it, that's, you know, quite common. You can always count contact the elections office at the same link I mentioned, they also have a phone number if you click there, they can help you find your local location. You can vote in person all the way up until 8pm on election day, but we strongly encourage that everyone votes a little earlier than that if you can manage because you know it always gets busy here the last hour. I've been there. So I strongly recommend you go earlier if you can go during your lunch break if possible. And the other thing is certain counties and we'll talk about this more later certain counties will have the opportunity if they are a voters choice Act County to vote earlier than election day, and we'll have a couple of our speakers go into that later. Now, voter eligibility. There are some things you need to be aware of some restrictions. So in order to vote in California, you have to be a California resident. You also have to be a US citizen, and you have to be at least 18 years of age. When you are registering to vote. Now a couple of things to keep in mind say you recently moved to California what does that mean for you. So if you spent at least six months out of the if you spend at least six months out of the year in California, you are someone that should be read fallen, you know, voting as a California resident. Or if you've lived here over nine months that also means you can vote in the state of California, so just keep that in mind. And if we go to slide to the second slide for me. Thank you. Alright, so again just remember that online voter registration, the deadline for that's going to be October 19. Mark that date make sure you get it done before then if you haven't already. If you want to be able to mail in your vote vote, or make sure your name is on the voter roll at your local polling location, you must be registered correctly as a voter by the 19th. What does that mean that must that means your name and your address should be correct on the voter guide for you. There is a couple of easy ways to figure that out so can I have you go to the next slide. The link we dropped earlier the one we mentioned earlier to get to your county elections office. If you click there. You can go next slide. Sorry that went to the last one if you can go further further for the back we can start at the very beginning don't worry. Going till there's two images. It's okay it might have not made it to this one but no worries. I'll basically tell you so if you were to go to the county elections link right there actually. It's quite easy for me since I'm in San Diego you scroll down to your particular county you click on the hyperlink of the name of the county and it brings up your own voting registrar page. And once you're there for San Diego it'll say I want to in the drop down. And then you can just hover over it and click I want to check my registration simple as that you click it. And then you can type in the information they asked for and then you can double check what your information. Now let's stay yeah we'll stay on this slide here. And again talking about voting in person on the day of the election. I want to give you all a scenario say you haven't registered to vote. And it's election day right what do you do are you are you not able to vote that's not necessarily the case thankfully so you still have the right to vote with the provisional ballot. And that ballot just so you know will only be counted after the elections official has confirmed that you are a registered voter and that you didn't vote anywhere else in this election. So that's it for me, I'm going to now hand it over to the next speaker. Thank you. All right, thank you so much for sharing information about voting in person and remembering that we can still send in our ballots over the mail. So when can you vote in person we want everyone to remember that just like always polling places are going to be open on election day, November 3 from 7am to 8pm. As a mayor shared though you don't want to wait till the last minute it's going to get really busy. So please please make your vote plan know when you're going to vote, have a plan be ready and a little bit later in the presentation you're going to hear about your ballot and be able to take off some time from work and make sure you have a chance to actually go cast your ballot. So in order to know where to go, the location of your polling place is is printed on the back of your county voter information guide that will be mailed to you I have already received mine so I hope you have received yours. If you are part of a voter choice act County as we'll talk about in a minute, you will not have a location defined for you since you can go to any vote center. If you're not, you can look up your polling place at the website that's included here. We'll take a look at what that looks like in just a moment. The website is tiny dot CC forward slash polling place. You can also text the word vote to go vote for 68683, or you can call the number that's on your screen 800-345-VOTE, and they will tell you where which location your polling place is at. You can also contact your county directly. We'll show you what that looks like on the page website that's included. And we just want you to remember for folks who are living in voters choice act counties they do have more options and you'll hear about that in just a moment. So if you can go to the next slide. Okay, so here is what it looks like to look up your polling place. If you go to the website that's here tiny dot CC forward slash polling place. It is a find your polling place tool you simply enter in your address, and it will provide your location for your polling place. If you're in a voter choice act County it will not have that information for you, because you can go to any vote center. Next slide. If you want to look up where your county is, please visit this nice convenient website that's been created for you tiny dot CC elections office in Fresno where I live I see the information for the county clerks office here in downtown Fresno you can give them a call contact them. Let them know you haven't received your guide in the mail or your ballot or look up where your vote centers are for this specific county in another county you can find out your polling place. So these links will be dropped for you in the comments to keep an eye out for them. And I'm going to go ahead and turn it over to the next presenter to talk more about voter choice at counties. So now I don't have hope everyone's doing well. It was a machine and we're going to talk right now about voters choice at counties. So that's really going to be only relevant to you. If you're in one of the counties that is highlighted here in blue on the map here. So if you're registered to vote and living in one of those counties, then your county has instead of a regular polling location that you would be assigned to something known as both centers and they'll have multiple those centers across the county, and you'll have access to any of those centers. More importantly, those centers will be open for you to drop off your ballots between October 31 and November 3. So you actually have a longer timeline to go in person and drop off your ballot to your vote center that's nearest you or nearest your work, or whatever that may be. And you can actually find where all of those votes center locations are on the link that was shared previously on your county's website. If you go to the previous slide, you'll see, you know, your county's website, you click there and they'll be able to identify where all the vote centers are for you. And you also will be receiving in the mail a document which identifies those for you as well. Additionally, not only do you have access to any of those center in your county, but those both centers are supposed to have increased language resources and language access for folks. And so you'll be given access to a greater number of potlines and translators at both centers to be able to ensure that regardless of language, you're able to still access your right to vote and participate. And lastly, these centers are also going to be equipped with new technology that's supposed to make voting more accessible for all individuals. So who have maybe in traditional polling places have found difficulty with accessibility issues to reach and turn in their ballots. And so the vote voters choice that county is really an effort to try and increase overall accessibility for all voters. And so if you're in one of those blue counties, you know, consider yourself lucky and take advantage of these additional resources and flexibility that you have to be able to turn in that ballot, especially because we know that that last day on November third is going to be so packed and so busy, you taking advantage of those extra early days that you could turn in your ballot to be really helpful, not only for yourself, but also to ensure that your vote is counted on time. Thank you. Look ahead and turn it over to the next presenter. So now everyone just a friendly reminder so as my colleagues have already emphasized. No matter how you choose to vote please vote early. If you prefer a more hands on style of voting you can still vote in person. So voting in person allows you to ask questions directly to poll workers. Another benefit is if you make a mistake then you can easily ask for another ballot. I myself am prone to mistakes so this is attempting option for me personally. And just another reminder so that if you wait until November third you might encounter some unnecessary difficulties. So make it easy on yourself and vote early please. So voting in person is one of several options. So it's important just to do what suits you the best. Now let's move on to the safety issues when it comes to in person voting. Participating in our Democratic general election is a moral imperative, even in the midst of a global pandemic. We can however mitigate some of the safety concerns around vote by doing a couple of things. Vote as early and as safe as possible so one way we can do that we can vote early in order to avoid the big crowds that tend to gather towards November third. We should also observe social distancing while at your polling station I personally would strongly recommend bringing your own personal PPE, but I believe that many polling stations will also have PPE face mask for people that don't bring their own. And also be sure to check out the link we've dropped in the chat box on how to find your county elections office as many of my other co presenters have already pointed out so I believe it's HTTP. Colin forward slash forward slash tiny dot ccc. I'm sorry, tiny dot cc forward slash polling place. And with that, I will pass it on to our next presenter. Great. Thank you. So I just want to go over some of the rights that you have when you go to vote in person. As folks mentioned, there will be early voting opportunities. So VCA counties will be open starting the Saturday before election day and they'll remain open every day through election day. And because of COVID there are actually a lot of additional counties that are not VCA counties that will open the Saturday before election day and remain open through election day. So you have a lot of choices in terms of the timing of going to vote. If you do end up going on election day, the polls will be open from 7am to 8pm. And if you accidentally end up being there at the very end of the day if that's the only time that works for you. I understand that's fine. Sometimes people are busy, but as long as you're actually in the line by 8pm, you can vote. So if you end up in line at 8pm, don't worry, they're not going to close the polls on you. You're already there and so you'll get to vote. Additionally, when thinking about timing, you do have the right to get up to two hours off of work. Taking that time off is necessary for you to be able to vote. So if you only work a six hour shift on election day, they probably wouldn't say that it's necessary to get time off to go to the polls because they're open for so long. But if it's necessary, then you do have that right to take some time off. And your employer can require that you give them advanced notice that you plan to do this. So think through the timing of when you're going to vote and if you need that time, let them know ahead of the election day itself. Another right that folks have at the polls is a right to bring a helper or even two. If the ballot seems confusing, which I think it seems it's confusing to all of us beyond it. And you want to bring someone who can help you navigate the ballot or help translate for you. You're allowed to bring a helper to the polls. You're entitled to bring up to two people. A caveat is that you can't bring someone who represents your employer or your union. And that's just because they want to make sure there's no sort of subtle intimidation or anyone, they don't want anyone to be trying to push you to vote in a certain way. But a family or a friend, that's totally fine and you can bring them along. Next, additionally, when you get there, you'll wait in line, then you'll check in. And when you give them your name, they should not ask for the poll worker should not ask for ID, unless it's a very limited set of circumstances. So generally, you don't need to show ID. When you registered, you already gave all the important identification information. Most people when they register, they provide the California driver's license number that they have or the California ID number that they have or social security number. And if or the end of their social and if you've provided that, you should be fine. And for those folks who registered a vote without providing that information. And for those folks, the first time they go to the polls, then they will be asked for ID because the state still needs to verify that that new registration is correct and that you are that person. But after that first time, or if you've already provided the full information, you shouldn't have to be asked to show ID when you show up to vote. And then occasionally, folks, it's the front of the line give the name and there's some sort of confusion. The poll worker says your name is not on our list, or we don't think you live here is this maybe you're at the wrong polling place. So in those instances, you have multiple options do not be deterred from voting. So something we have in California is called the same day voter registration. And that's where on election day you can walk in and sign up to vote for the very first time and then vote right then and there. The election office will put your ballot in a special envelope. And then when they go process it back at the elections headquarters, they will double check to make sure that same day registration is valid and then they'll count your ballot. So if you're facing issues on the day of voting, you can just ask to re register and you'll fill out your form. And then they'll give you a ballot to process later once they've checked your form. There's also a very similar process with something called a provisional ballot. And so you could also use that process either would work for most situations where there's some confusion about the validity of your registration. And then we'd also recommend if you're having an interaction with a poll worker and you feel like something might not be right. There are quite a few vote voting rights hotlines that you can call into and we can share out some of those resources. At the end of this talk, you can also go to my organization's voting rights web page where we have a number of flyers that lay out some of these key know your rights pieces, but they also include hotlines. So you can call for help on election day if you need to. That said, very few voters face these types of problems. Many millions of Californians vote quite successfully in person as the election, but we just want you to be prepared in case anything comes up. You'll know exactly what to do and your vote will still be counted. And now I will pass it over to the next speaker. Thank you so much, Julie. I really appreciate that really thorough, you know, overview of rights super important. We have dropped that link into the chat so if you, you know, want to bookmark it definitely go ahead and do that. If you have any questions now is the time definitely pop them in the chat. So we can answer them before we close off. So there are a few resources that we do have for folks. The first thing, and we don't have it on our slides but if you haven't filled out your senses yet be sure to do that today. The last day is the 30th so we want to make sure everyone gets counted. Our current California response rate is somewhere around 66% or so so we want to get that number up please please fill out your senses if you haven't already. The other thing is we are care California is working to get out the vote. So if you have time if you're interested in helping us with our efforts please sign up to be an MVP Muslim voter powerhouse. We will be doing text banking training on Sunday at noon so please sign up today to make sure you can get on that training if you're interested in text baking. The other thing is we have a amazing hub on the care California page for all things elections related things like voter registration voter education webinars like this one. And our much anticipated voter guide will all be on this page so please make sure to bookmark it and reference it whenever you can and need to, and you can also check out the empower change website for more voter resources. And then we want you to stay in the know we have some upcoming events coming up. The care San Francisco Bay area will be hosting a citizenship clinic tomorrow at 4pm. Be sure to register at the link and I think we'll be dropping it down in the chat as well. Please take advantage of the clinic it's open to everyone in California. So we highly encourage you to do that. We'll have a webinar next week on prop 15 will go over everything you need to know about it. It's at the same time 530pm and make sure you save these dates on your calendars your ballots are going to be mailed out on October 5. So keep an eye out on your mail. Make sure you register to vote make sure your address is up to date because you can't get your ballot in the mail if your address is wrong great. I want you to make sure you check the upcoming events on your chapters care website. Go to CA dot care dot com. They say that right. Yes, I did. And check out the candidate for him. All right. Do we have any questions coming in. Sorry, so I can't see the chat. No questions so far. All right. One question we just got this might be a question for Julia. We have three asking where is the source regarding a family or friend that can be helpers. Oh, I think maybe I was unclear. It's not that only family and friends can be helpers. Anyone who is not an employer or union representative can be a helper. We were just I was meant to provide an example that family and friends could be helpers, but a neighbor or even a stranger who seems friendly and doesn't work for your employer could also be a helper. So my apologies if I misspoke on that. I don't have the legal citation to the rule about employers on hand, but I can certainly look that up and follow up if you want a statutory site. Yeah.