Orange County voters, are you curious about who is on your ballot? We’ve got you covered.
Our 2024 Primary Election Voter Guide launches online today, a one-stop-shop to find candidates’ platforms, explainers on ballot measures and our editorial board’s endorsements.
It’s an easy way to get to know who is on your ballot and compare the candidates vying for your vote. And we’ve got some new features for you this year, like an interactive map to help you find the nearest ballot drop box and demographical information about each race.
You can hear from candidates, in their own words, as they answered questionnaires on various topics, including how the economy is impacting Orange County, what’s next for artificial intelligence and its regulation and how border security can be better addressed, just to name a few.
From there, scroll through the page or use the drop-down menu in the upper left corner to find a specific race.
Click on candidates’ names to see their questionnaires and answers in full. Candidates vying for the same seat received the same questions, and answers were only edited for spelling, grammar, length and, in some instances, to remove offensive language.
You can find explainers on all the local ballot measures in Orange County as well as the lone statewide proposition before primary voters this March: Proposition 1. You can also find information about the only recall election on primary ballots in Orange County: an effort to oust two Orange Unified School Board trustees from their posts.
There is information about each race and district, such as how long terms last and why the U.S. Senate race is on your ballot twice. And for congressional and legislative races, you can find information about the district’s voter makeup.
The Voter Guide is available for all readers and can be shared. Find it online at ocregister.com/voter-guide.
And if you care to compare candidates’ responses this year to how they answered in 2022 – if they ran for office that year – you can find those answers at ocregister.com/2022-voter-guide/.
