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April 10, 2023 | Clerk-Recorder-Assessor-Registrar of Voters

County Recorder announces search for vendors to help identify illegal restrictions in recorded documents

The Sonoma County Recorder announced today a search for vendors to help identify, redact and report more than 24 million previously recorded documents for illegal, often-racially restrictive language. Read full story


March 03, 2023 | Clerk-Recorder-Assessor-Registrar of Voters

Historical Records Commission announces winners of this year’s Collections and Archives Recognition Awards

The Sonoma County Historical Records Commission today announced five recipients of its second annual Collections and Archives Recognition Awards. These awards recognize the accomplishments and contributions of individuals, groups, agencies, collections, or archives located within Sonoma County and focus on existing collections as well as recognizing special efforts to preserve and use archival material in promoting history and cultural preservation. Read full story


March 03, 2023 | Clerk-Recorder-Assessor-Registrar of Voters

March 7 is Election Day for two fire districts

The Sonoma County Registrar of Voters is reminding voters who reside in the Schell-Vista Fire Protection District and the Timber Cove Fire Protection District that there is an election on Tuesday, March 7. This election only applies to approximately 3,000 voters registered in these two districts. All other Sonoma County voters do not have an election this spring. Read full story


February 03, 2023 | Clerk-Recorder-Assessor-Registrar of Voters

County to begin mailing voter information guides, ballots to voters in March special election

Voter information guides and official ballots for the March 7 special election will begin going out in the mail on Monday, Feb. 6, the Sonoma County Registrar of Voters announced today. Please note that this election applies to fewer than 3,000 voters residing in the Schell-Vista Fire Protection District and the Timber Cove Fire Protection District. Read full story


December 05, 2022 | Clerk-Recorder-Assessor-Registrar of Voters

Nomination deadline approaches for two new potential Timber Cove Fire Protection District seats in March

The Sonoma County Registrar of Voters is reminding voters residing in the Timber Cove Fire Protection District that the deadline to file for two new potential seats on the district’s Board of Directors in the upcoming March 7, 2023 Special Election is 5 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 9. Read full story


November 28, 2022 | Clerk-Recorder-Assessor-Registrar of Voters

Registrar of Voters Announces November 30 Deadline for Voters to “Cure” Ballot Signature Issues from November General Election

Sonoma County Registrar of Voters (ROV) Deva Marie Proto is alerting Sonoma County voters who participated in the November 2022 General Election and were notified that their ballots were challenged due to missing or mismatched signatures that their ballots will likely not be counted unless the ROV Office receives the appropriate signature “cure” forms by 5 p.m. Pacific Time (PT) on November 30. Read full story


November 02, 2022 | Clerk-Recorder-Assessor-Registrar of Voters

Early in-person voting to expand for November election

Beginning Saturday, registered voters in Sonoma County who have not already voted in the Nov. 8 general election, may vote early in person at one of 31 vote centers located throughout the county. In-person voting has been available since Oct. 29 at seven vote centers, and an additional 24 vote centers will open this weekend. Read full story


October 26, 2022 | Clerk-Recorder-Assessor-Registrar of Voters

Early in-person voting to begin this weekend for November 8 election

In accordance with state law, all active registered voters in Sonoma County have been mailed vote-by-mail ballots for the November 8, 2022, General Election. Read full story


October 20, 2022 | Clerk-Recorder-Assessor-Registrar of Voters

Deadline to register to vote in November election is Monday, October 24

The Sonoma County Registrar of Voters is reminding Sonoma County residents that the deadline to register to vote in the upcoming Nov. 8 General Election is Monday, Oct. 24. Read full story


October 06, 2022 | Clerk-Recorder-Assessor-Registrar of Voters

County to begin mailing voter information guides and ballots for November General Election

The Sonoma County Registrar of Voters announced today that county voter information guides and official ballots for the Nov. 8, General Election will begin going out in the mail to voters no later than Monday, Oct. 10. Read full story