Joe Paul Gonzalez

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As the information becomes available, this page will provide links to:

• • Our Candidate’s Handbook  – Find all our current and past candidate handbooks here.
    • Handbook for November 2020 General Election
  • Summary Calendar of candidate filing events
  • Candidate Pre-Registration – Closed for the November 2020 General Election.  Reduce candidate filing time in our office by up to 30 minutes.  Provide us all the necessary information and we will send to you most of the paperwork pre-filled for your signature.  Make an appointment and bring the paperwork with you to sign the final Declaration of Candidacy.
  • Book an Appointment to file your candidate paperwork, or to simply request time for a consultation

• • Candidate Statements and Financial Filings
    • Candidate statements for all contests on the ballot will be available for public viewing for 5 days after the close of nominations
    • Forms 470 and 501 are available for viewing
    • Search by candidate, contest, or Election.

• • List of Candidates
    • Random Draw County – Affects order of candidates on the ballot for State Senate and Member of Assembly
    • Random Draw State – Affects order of candidates on the ballot for all other races
    • Candidate Statements – view Candidate Statements on our website.
    • Qualified but Not On the Ballot – Due to not enough candidates to require a vote declaring their candidacy.  Select the “Offices Not on the Ballot” option

• • Local Ballot Measures – Viewing of all Measures, submitted to our office,  to be on the ballot in the next election.

• • Public Viewing
    • The public is welcome to view anything in our office, including:
      • Logic and Accuracy testing of voting machines and ballot counting equipment,
      • Vote-by-Mail processing and counting,
      • Election Night Counting, and
      • post-election Provisional ballot evaluation and counting.

• • Polling Place Lookup
    • Location of your assigned polling place.  Please Note, these may change with each election.  Please review here

• • Voter Turnout – Coming on Election Day.  View voter turnout both at the polls and returned vote-by-mail ballots.  Information will be live and updating all day.

• • Status  of your Vote by Mail or provisional ballot

• • Statement of Vote

Alternatively, you may select our Elections & Filings page to see a calendar of events.  While new events and additional information  may be added at any time, approximate dates and deadlines for the next two elections are currently posted on the calendar.  To view the calendar, please select the “Elections & Filings Calendar” option in the menu to the right (or below if you are viewing this on a mobile device).