This November, California voters will have an opportunity to vote for:

• Governor 
• Lieutenant Governor 
• Secretary of State
• Attorney General
• Treasurer 
• Comptroller 
• Superintendent of Schools 
• Board of Equalization
• Insurance Commissioner 
• Your U.S. Congressional Representatives (U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate)

The Governor is the state’s chief executive officer and holds a lot of power within the state, without being required to answer to the President or federal government. Some of the Governor’s powers and responsibilities include:

• Vetoing or overturning bills that have been passed in the California State Legislature
• Granting pardons and commuting sentences 
• Calling the National Guard into active duty
• Filling vacancies in state offices – including for the Secretary of State and Attorney General 
• Submitting a balanced budget to the legislature, who must then pass a balanced budget to be signed into law. *California’s governor has line-item veto authority over the budget – meaning they can cross out items in the legislative budget without vetoing the entire budget

Governors in California are elected every four years and are limited to serving two terms. The current governor is Gavin Newsom, who is running for his second term this year. In California, governors may be recalled – meaning that they can be removed from office after being elected and before their term ends.

The Secretary of State is responsible for a number of important state functions, including:

• Serving as the state’s Chief Elections Officer, which includes preparing voter information, testing all voting equipment, and ensuring that both campaign disclosure and election laws are enforced. It is the Secretary of State’s responsibility to make sure that everything related to elections is in line with the law. 
• Implementing electronic filing and Internet disclosure of campaign and lobbyist financial information
• Maintaining business filings
• Commissioning notaries public
• Operating the Safe at Home confidential address program, which handles witness protection
• Maintaining the Domestic Partners and Advance Health Care Directive Registries
• Safeguarding the State Archives
• Serving as a trustee of the California Museum

In California, the Secretary of State is elected every four years, with a two-term limit. The current California Secretary of State is Dr. Shirley Weber.

Check out our easy-to-use voter guide to check your voter registration status, learn more about the candidates, find out key dates and deadlines, and more!

However, if you are voting for the first time after registering to vote by mail and did not provide your driver license number, California identification number or the last four digits of your social security number on your registration form, you may be asked to show a form of identification when you go to the polls. For a complete list of acceptable forms of ID click here

Do you have other questions we didn’t answer? No problem! You can call your local elections office. Find the phone number here OR call the Secretary of State’s toll-free Voter Hotline at (800) 345- VOTE (8683)

This November, Georgians will have an opportunity to vote for:

• Governor 
• Lieutenant Governor 
• Secretary of State 
• Attorney General
• Superintendent of Schools 
• Agriculture Commissioner
• Labor Commissioner
• Insurance Commissioner
• Public Service Commission
• Your U.S. Congressional Representatives (U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate)

As is the case in other states, the Governor is the state’s highest executive officer and holds a lot of power within the state without being required to answer to the President or federal government. Some of the Governor’s powers and responsibilities include:

• Vetoing or overturning bills that have been passed in the Georgia State Legislature
• Holding special elections for vacancies in the state house or senate
• Convening additional legislative sessions
• Filling vacancies in all offices that are not filled by another method
• Submitting a balanced budget to the legislature every year, which must then pass a balanced budget to be signed into law.
  **Georgia’s governor has line-item veto authority over the budget – meaning they can cross out items in the legislative budget without vetoing the entire budget. This budget includes funding for every state agency for the year the budget is in effect.

The Governor of Georgia is elected every four years and is limited to serving two consecutive terms in the office, but can run again after another governor has served one term. The current governor is Brian Kemp, who is running for his second term this November.

The Secretary of State is responsible for a number of important state functions, including:

• Overseeing a number of administrative duties, such as keeping state records, and providing educational programs about the state government. 
• Supervising election activity as the chair of the State Election Board, which enforces Georgia state election laws and investigates allegations of election fraud. More specifically, the Georgia Secretary of State is in control of voter registration; local, state, and federal elections; campaign finance disclosure; and the certification of election results.
• Preserving and producing records that the public has the right to access.
• Monitoring, licensing and registering professionals as well as businesses.

In Georgia, the Secretary of State is elected every four years and the current Secretary of State is Brad Raffensperger.

Check out our easy-to-use voter guide to check your voter registration status, learn more about the candidates, find out key dates and deadlines, and more!

For a list of acceptable identification, click here

Do you have other questions we didn’t answer? No problem! You can call your local registrar’s office. Find the phone number here 

 This November, North Carolina voters will have an opportunity to vote for:

• Your U.S. Congressional Representatives (U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate)

Check out our easy-to-use voter guide to check your voter registration status, learn more about the candidates, find out key dates and deadlines, and more!

These elections will not occur until 2024 in North Carolina.

Do you have other questions we didn’t answer? No problem! You can call your county board of elections. Find the phone number here