SJSU Elections Center

Register to Vote

• Register to vote or confirm your voter registration status.
• Watch a video from the County of Santa Clara on how to register.
• Learn more on how you can work at a Vote Center.

Key Special Runoff Election Dates (Santa Clara County)

• The last day to register to vote for the December 30, 2025 Special Runoff Election and receive a vote by mail (VBM) ballot is December 15, 2025.
  
  
• Missed the registration deadline? Same-day or conditional voter registration begins on December 16, 2025.
  
  
• All Santa Clara County active registered voters will receive a vote-by-mail ballot for the December 30, 2025 Statewide Special Election. Your county elections office will begin mailing ballots by December 8, 2025.
  
  
• Ballot drop-off locations open on December 8, 2025.
  
  
• Vote-by-mail ballots can be returned by mail, at a drop-off location, or your county elections office.
  
  
• Election Day (the last day to vote in the Special Runoff Election) is December 30, 2025. Polls are open on Election Day 7am-8pm.
  
  
• Vote-by-mail ballots must be postmarked on or before Election Day December 30, 2025 and received no later than 7 days after Election Day. 

SJSU Votes

SJSU students and faculty, under the direction of the Institute for Public Affairs and Civic Engagement (IPACE), facilitate campus-wide efforts to mobilize the Spartan community to register and to turn out to vote. Visit SJSU Votes to learn about their programming and upcoming events.

SJSU Vote Center

Information coming soon. 

Ballot Box Locations

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library
• Dudley Moorhead Hall 
• The Villages

*All ballot boxes are located outside the buildings

Post Election

Learn more about available resources for wellness and counseling as well as our speech and advocacy space.