By order of the Kern County Board of Supervisors, on 1/1/95 the County Clerk-Registrar of Voters was combined with the Auditor-Controller office.
Mary B Bedard is the elected Auditor-Controller-County Clerk and has been the Registrar of Voters since 2013. She has 30 years of experience with the County of Kern. Prior to coming to Kern County, she served in the Peace Corps, setting up accounting systems for the Western Samoa Treasury Department and teaching accounting for the Western Samoa Society of Accountants.
Ms. Bedard holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Toronto, a master’s degree in accounting from the State University of New York at Albany and is a Certified Public Accountant.
The mission of Kern County Elections is to facilitate a transparent voting process with access for all that is aligned with the freedoms of an open and just electoral process that is the fabric of our Democracy in the United States of America.
We are proud to be of assistance to the Voters of Kern County.
Click on the link below for a welcome statement from our Auditor-Controller-County Clerk-Registrar of Voters, Mary Bedard.
Welcome Video
Kern County Elections Division
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