Signs, Reassigned

It is 760 Print's nonpartisan program for turning qualifying, authorized campaign signs into finished signs for San Diego County nonprofits. The public chooses one guaranteed Community Choice recipient, and enough usable material can create awards for as many as nine more nonprofits.

No. Voting is free and open to the public. Anyone with a valid email address may submit one verified ballot during the published window. Donating signs helps create the awards but does not give a voter extra influence.

The vote is open to the public, not limited by residence. One verified email address may submit one counted ballot for one nonprofit. This is not identity verification, so 760 Print does not describe it as one person, one vote.

Yes. Contributions of 1 to 39 qualifying panels are welcome during public drop-off hours while intake is open. You still complete the electronic ownership and transfer certification before unloading. The 40-panel threshold applies only to activating one nonprofit nomination submitted and verified before intake.

If you preregistered one nonprofit by 5 p.m. Pacific on Oct. 23 and that organization passed verification, reaching 40 qualifying, accepted and ownership-cleared panels activates it for the final ballot. Delivering more than 40 panels does not create more nominations or more votes.

The nomination does not activate. The threshold uses the final qualifying, accepted and ownership-cleared count, not an estimate or delivered count. Those 39 panels can still contribute to the program's qualified-material yield.

No. Intake staff will receive, inspect and count signs, not research charities. Nonprofits and 40-panel donor nominations must be submitted by the advance deadline so eligibility and consent can be confirmed by Oct. 30.

Unrelated donors cannot combine counts. A campaign, committee, business or organization may consolidate its own authorized inventory across approved appointments and both public intake days under one donor record. That entity may activate one preregistered nomination at 40 qualifying, accepted and ownership-cleared panels.

Donate anyway. A nomination is optional, and anyone may vote on the final verified ballot at 760print.com.

Public drop-off is Monday, Nov. 9, and Friday, Nov. 13, 2026, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 760 Print, 2585 Fortune Way, Suite B, Vista, CA 92081. Intake ends on Nov. 13 or as soon as 1,000 panels have entered program custody, whichever happens first. Check the status at the top of this page before traveling.

Yes. Coordinated loads of 40 or more panels may schedule an appointment from Nov. 4 through Nov. 13 so 760 Print can plan safe receiving, counting and storage. Request a bulk appointment before arrival.

No. An appointment reserves staff time, not capacity or automatic acceptance. Every panel still passes authorization, material, size, condition and safety review. If remaining capacity is smaller than the load, 760 Print accepts no more than the remaining qualifying quantity, and the donor leaves with the rest.

Yes. Intake closes as soon as accepted panels and any dispute-held panels fill the 1,000-panel custody limit. No appointment, preregistration or nomination reserves capacity. Once the status at the top of this page says closed, 760 Print does not accept additional panels in this program cycle.

The 2026 program accepts clean, dry, flat 4 mm corrugated-plastic election panels in 12 x 18, 18 x 24 and 24 x 36 inch sizes. Panels must be safe to handle and owned by the donor or transferred with authorization. For general material and use information, read the 760 Print guide to custom corrugated signs for temporary outdoor messaging.

Before unloading, every donor completes an electronic ownership and transfer certification by QR code or on a staff tablet. The record identifies the signer, owner or authorizing organization, basis of authority, sign source, presented quantity and typed signature. It also confirms lawful removal, transfer authority, 760 Print's right to decline material, the donor's responsibility for rejected and over-cap panels, and the acceptance of qualifying panels into program custody for evaluation under the handoff terms. A numbered paper form is used only during a verified electronic outage and is entered into the same system afterward.

Only when the owner has authorized you to remove and transfer them. Be prepared to identify the owner or authorizing organization and explain your role. Every projected load of 40 or more panels must be preregistered, scheduled and supported by an authority record before arrival. Mixed-owner, roadside and agency-related loads may require additional proof.

Do not collect or transport the signs. Ask the owner, campaign, property owner or responsible agency for clear permission first. Election Day, a removal deadline, an apparently abandoned location or the fact that a sign is outdoors does not transfer ownership.

One complete physical panel counts as one panel, whether printed on one side or two. Cut pieces, bundled stakes, damaged panels and material that fails the published size, condition or authorization rules do not count toward ballot or nomination eligibility.

An accepted panel passes the ownership, material, size, condition and safety checks at intake. Production-qualified material also passes the coverage, adhesion, durability and project-fit review needed to become finished signage. Forty qualifying, accepted and ownership-cleared panels can activate a preregistered nomination. Only confirmed finished-sign yield from production-qualified material can unlock additional award packages.

No. Remove every H-stake before arrival. Keep the stakes for reuse or take them to an appropriate local metal-recovery option. 760 Print accepts sign panels only.

No, not unless both removal and transfer are legally authorized. Do not take signs from a public right-of-way, polling place, neighboring property or another campaign because they appear abandoned or because a deadline has passed. Stolen, found, scavenged and anonymously delivered signs are not accepted.

Keep the load with you until inspection is complete. Every declined panel and every panel above the remaining capacity stays with the donor and must leave the property the same day. Do not leave unaccepted material outside, after hours or near the loading area.

760 Print may quarantine the identifiable batch, stop production use and review the intake certification and supporting records. Held panels continue to occupy program capacity but do not count toward a nomination or finished-sign yield. They remain quarantined unless and until 760 Print completes an approved resolution process. A donor remains responsible for the accuracy of the signed certification. Report an ownership or authorization concern.

There is no single deadline for every sign in San Diego County. Vista requires covered temporary signs in its public right-of-way to be removed within five days after the election, which reaches Nov. 8 for the Nov. 3 election. Caltrans rules for temporary political signs within their scope use a 10-day period, which reaches Nov. 13. Other cities, roadways and private-property locations may follow different rules. The program dates do not extend any legal deadline, and each sign owner is responsible for checking the rule that applies.

No. Presented panels may be declined before they enter custody. Accepted panels may later fail production testing. Every quantity is reported by its documented outcome: presented, accepted, declined and returned, held for review, production-qualified, made into finished signs, accepted by a verified processor or discarded. A panel counts as reused only after a documented second use. It counts as recycled only if a verified processor accepts that exact material.

No. Finished nonprofit signs are released only after candidate, party and ballot-measure messaging is fully obscured and the production method passes coverage, durability and suitability testing.

It does not create a partial public award, cash value or permission to accept more than 1,000 panels. 760 Print may use the remaining accepted material for a separately documented smaller nonprofit project or report another verified outcome. There is no overflow pile, waitlist or second-round intake after the cap closes.

Program results use aggregate counts unless a donor separately agrees to be named. Contact information collected for verification and ballot delivery is not added to marketing messages without a separate opt-in.

The public recap separates panels presented, accepted into custody, declined and returned, held for review, production-qualified, reassigned as finished signs, accepted by a verified processor and discarded. It also publishes final nonprofit vote totals after voting closes, without publishing voter email addresses or individual ballots.

An eligible recipient is an IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) public charity, or a charitable program operating through a qualified fiscal sponsor, with an active San Diego County office, program or documented service presence. It must identify a practical, lawful and nonpartisan signage need, meet artwork and pickup deadlines, and consent to appear on the ballot. Individuals, for-profit businesses, candidates, campaign committees, political parties and ballot-measure organizations are not eligible.

Yes. A nonprofit may apply by 5 p.m. Pacific on Oct. 23 and explain its signage need. A 40-panel donor nomination is a separate path that guarantees an eligible, consenting organization a ballot place once the donor's accepted count reaches 40.

Yes. A San Diego County nonprofit may join the future-sign interest list for suitable extra panels or future rounds. Availability depends on usable material, production capacity and project fit, so applying does not guarantee free signage. Organizations with needs outside this program can also review 760 Print's nonprofit printing support.

The organization appears only once on the ballot. Each donor's accepted material still counts toward program yield, but duplicate nominations do not create duplicate listings, extra votes or extra award eligibility.

No substitutions are allowed after the application deadline. A donor may correct information before the deadline. If the named organization declines or fails verification, the donation still supports the material total but does not activate a replacement nominee.

Every unique, eligible nonprofit activated by a verified 40-panel donor record appears once. If fewer than 15 organizations activate through that path, 760 Print fills the slate from verified direct applicants through a documented random drawing until at least 15 appear, when enough eligible applicants are available. If more than 15 activate, every activated organization remains. Names appear alphabetically, and a larger slate uses accessible search and filtering. If fewer than 10 eligible organizations consent, 760 Print publishes the smaller verified slate and explains how any unlocked capacity will be handled before voting begins.

The public vote is hosted at 760print.com from 9 a.m. Pacific on Monday, Nov. 16, through 5 p.m. Pacific on Sunday, Nov. 22. Enter a valid email address, complete verification and select one nonprofit. The same email address cannot submit a second counted ballot. Voting data is used for verification and program administration, not marketing, unless the voter separately opts in.

Yes. Every nonprofit may share the same public ballot and encourage supporters to participate. Buying votes, offering an incentive for a ballot, submitting ballots for other people or using automated tools is prohibited. Every counted ballot must complete the same verification process.

Each counted ballot requires email verification. Rate limits, bot protection, duplicate and disposable-address review, and IP or device velocity signals help identify abuse. Automated submissions, voting for another person, incentives for votes and addresses created to evade the limit are prohibited. 760 Print records a reason for every invalidated ballot and keeps live totals hidden.

760 Print records confirmed service interruptions and posts a timestamped update. If the ballot is unavailable for more than 30 minutes during its final six hours, the closing time is extended by at least the confirmed outage period so no organization loses voting time.

Verification records are kept only for ballot administration, fraud review and result certification. Raw voter identifiers are scheduled for deletion within 90 days after final certification, except where a legal obligation requires longer retention. Aggregate, non-identifying program totals may remain in the public recap.

A selected nonprofit has three business days after notification to accept, confirm an eligible project and agree to the production schedule. If it declines, does not respond or becomes ineligible, the package passes to the next eligible organization in the certified vote ranking.

After invalid ballots are removed, an exact tie at an award boundary is resolved by a documented random drawing supervised by two 760 Print representatives. The method and result are included in the final recap.

Each package includes 100 finished, one-sided 4 mm corrugated-plastic signs for one approved nonprofit project. Finished signs use approved 12 x 18 or 18 x 24 inch formats, with the final size mix based on qualified material and project fit and capped at 300 total square feet. Standard design setup, up to two layouts, one consolidated proof round and Vista pickup are included. H-stakes, installation, shipping, resale, transfer, cash substitution and store credit are excluded.

No. The first 100-sign Community Choice package is guaranteed, and 760 Print uses new 4 mm stock if qualified recovered material cannot complete it. Additional packages depend on confirmed finished-sign yield from production-qualified recovered material. The program expands to two packages at a 200-sign yield, five at 500 and the maximum of 10 at 1,000.

After intake closes, 760 Print reconciles every stack, completes production review and calculates the qualified finished-sign yield. Before voting opens on Nov. 16, this page will publish that yield and the number of 100-sign packages available in the first cycle.

No. Each organization may receive no more than one 100-sign package in the first cycle. If fewer eligible organizations remain than unlocked packages, unused capacity is not automatically doubled for another recipient and may be assigned only through a separately published future project.

It may accept a smaller quantity that matches its real need. The unused balance does not become cash, store credit or a transferable award.

A recipient must provide final logo files, copy, brand assets and one authorized decision-maker within five business days after acceptance. It must return one consolidated proof response within two business days. 760 Print confirms the pickup schedule after the proof is approved.

The program accepts no more than 1,000 qualifying panels into custody. Intake closes immediately when that count is full, even if published dates or confirmed appointments remain. Donors leave with every rejected or over-cap panel. This hard collection limit is separate from the award ceiling of up to 1,000 finished signs, because accepted panels still must pass production testing and may not yield one finished sign each.

No. The recipient receives finished, appropriate signage. Suitable recovered panels are incorporated only where testing shows they can safely and durably serve the new use.

760 Print does not issue a charitable tax receipt for donated panels. Participants should ask their own tax adviser whether any deduction applies to their circumstances.

No. Signs, Reassigned is nonpartisan. Authorized qualifying signs are evaluated under the same material rules regardless of political viewpoint, and political organizations are not eligible for the nonprofit award.

Yes, if an authorized campaign representative preregisters and separately approves public recognition. 760 Print may add the campaign to an alphabetical, equal-format commitment roundup, tag the campaign's official social account and provide a repost-ready card. The notice says the campaign has committed to retrieve signs it controls. It does not say the signs were delivered, accepted, reused or recycled. Public recognition is optional and has no effect on intake, nomination, voting or award eligibility.

Yes, after 760 Print confirms the handoff and accepted-panel count. 760 Print can update the campaign's status from committed to completed and provide a share-ready impact card with verified counts. Do not claim every panel was reused or recycled unless the published result supports that statement. Participation does not guarantee social reach or media coverage and does not imply endorsement by 760 Print or a nonprofit.

Yes, under the same rule for every approved nonprofit. 760 Print provides each organization with the same ballot-approved card and caption. If the nonprofit posts the approved card, tags 760 Print and sends the public post URL during the published sharing window, 760 Print may provide one neutral repost or story share. The share identifies the organization as an approved ballot participant, not a winner or an endorsed organization, and does not include paid nominee-specific promotion.

Yes, by appointment during an approved media window. Send a media request to Chris Clark, president of 760 Print, or call (760) 758-1140 to coordinate access, interviews and production footage.

Send a program or partnership inquiry or call (760) 758-1140. Reporters can use the dedicated media request form.