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County installs 16 ballot drop boxes throughout Long Beach for November election
Long Beach Sep 18, 2020
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A ballot box outside the Michelle Obama Neighborhood Library on Monday, Aug. 17, 2020. The Los Angeles Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk recently placed over a dozen ballot boxes throughout Long Beach for voters to drop off their Vote-by-Mail ballots for the Nov. 3 election. Photo by Curtis Herod. County election officials have installed 16 Vote-by-Mail ballot drop boxes throughout Long Beach in preparation for the Nov. 3 general election, including at libraries and public facilities. The Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s office had been planning on placing these drop boxes throughout the city since last year, said Long Beach City Clerk Monique De La Garza, but with so many changes to the election process—including shifting oversight from the city to the county, switching from polling places to vote centers and changing the primaries from June to March—the city didn’t have the opportunity to work with county officials to install them during the March primary election. De La Garza called the installation of the drop-off boxes great timing. “I think Long Beach is a really strong Vote-By-Mail city and it made sense to have these boxes,” she told the Post earlier in the week. The drop boxes are located at: Bixby Park Community Center, 130 […]
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