Central Coast libraries join in the National Voter Registration Day efforts

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Libraries throughout the Central Coast are assisting with voter registration on this National Voter Registration Day.

The Santa Barbara Library will have the League of Women Voters on hand at a voter registration table from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

For residents who want to register, all of the paperwork will be on site along with any assistance to fill out the form correctly.

You can also update your registration, for example, if you have moved.

Voter registration needs to be updated if you change your name and if you got married.

"We can have them look up their voter registration on  line and they can check to make sure it is all current so they get their packet of information from the county in the mail," said Revae Moran with the Santa Barbara League of Women Voters.

She said if they move and file a change of address with the U.S. Postal Service, "then your voter registration gets updated, it's really a  wonderful system."

A downtown worker on her lunch break said she heard about this on the radio. She was unregistered but wanted to change that on the spot. Alicia Tovar said, "it's just time I just have to do it.  I knew I had to do it a long time ago  and it is just time. "

A former South Carolina resident who moved to California in 2022 and started out in Ventura County and registered to vote. Then, "I moved here (Santa Barbara) from Ojai and then I changed my address so I am registered where I am currently living," said resident Tionna Elkins.

Many area libraries are participating in Voter Registration Day including Santa Maria, Orcutt, Los Alamos, and Solvang.

For more information on voter registration and this drive go to: The League of Women Voters of Santa Barbara