New Voter Registration Database

The California Secretary of State’s office released information on November 23, 2015 saying that “thirty-one counties have now successfully deployed VoteCal, the voter registration database that will ultimately serve the entire state. VoteCal will replace the existing 58 county voter registration databases throughout the state.”
According the Secretary of state’s office, VoteCal will improve service by: “providing a publicly available website which will allow voters to register online, check the status of their ballot, and find their polling place; connecting all 58 counties to the Secretary of State’s database to improve the voter registration process; give voters the ability to see if their vote-by-mail or provisional ballot was counted by their county elections official and, if it was not, why not; providing a single, official statewide database of voter registration information.”
They expect the rest of the 27 counties to begin adopting VoteCal and after the Secretary of State has validated that it is working properly, VoteCal will be declared the official system of record for voter registration. They hope to have it in place by June 2016.
For further information, please Google VoteCal Deployment Status and Schedule and VoteCal News and Background on the Secretary of State’s website.