# Perris City Clerk

Nancy Salazar is running uncontested for Perris City Clerk. Full ballot at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. The City Clerk keeps Perris's official city records. They also run city elections. They process public-records requests too. The term is four years. Voters elect this office at-large, citywide.

- Jurisdiction: City of Perris
- Election: November 3, 2026 California general election
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- Sources last retrieved: September 3, 2026
- Source-objectivity score: 74 out of 100 (Mixed), across 5 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology

## On the ballot

- **Nancy Salazar** — Incumbent

A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot.

Incumbent Nancy Salazar is the only candidate this research could confirm filed for City Clerk -- unopposed, per the city's own election page.

The City Clerk keeps Perris's official city records. The clerk also runs city elections and handles public-records requests. Voters citywide elect the clerk to a four-year term.

No independent biography or platform statement was found for Salazar. The city's own roster confirms they hold the seat and when their term ends. The two candidate-filing PDFs on the city's election page could not be opened.

## Nancy Salazar

The incumbent City Clerk, unopposed for another term per the city's own election page and staff roster. No independent biography, professional background, or platform statement was found for Salazar beyond that record.

**Strengths:** Already serving in the office, with no challenger having filed against Salazar.

**Trade-offs:** No independent biography, professional background, or stated platform was found for them in this research pass.

**Keep in mind:** Being unopposed means this seat's outcome is not in question; the practical decision for a voter is simply whether to cast a vote for them at all.

## Review notes

- No cited source describes the candidates; add descriptive coverage to lift the cap.

## Sources

1. [City of Perris -- November 3, 2026 General Municipal Election page: office/district roster (City Clerk at-large, City Council Districts 1 and 3), nomination-period dates, and the filed candidates for each -- City Clerk: Nancy Salazar (incumbent); District 1: Guadalupe Gomez, Mohammed Rahman, Juan Carlos "JC" Franco; District 3: David Starr Rabb (incumbent), Jessica Guzman, Jose Osuna-Tisnado. Also names Measure C, a proposed business-license tax on distribution/industrial facilities (not built here; measures are descoped from display). Read via a direct Google Translate website-proxy fetch (translate.goog), not a cached snippet -- every direct WebFetch of cityofperris.org, in this and every other path tried, returned HTTP 403.](https://www.cityofperris.org/city-hall/city-clerk/elections)
2. [City of Perris -- "Mayor and City Council" staff-directory page: lists Michael Vargas (Mayor, term expires 2028), Malcolm Corona (Mayor Pro Tem, District 4, term expires 2028), Elizabeth Vallejo (District 2, term expires 2028), Marisela Nava (District 1, term expires 2026), and David Starr Rabb (District 3, term expires 2026) -- confirms Nava's and Rabb's incumbency and term-expiration dates, and that Nava is not among District 1's filed candidates (an open seat). No occupation, biography, or platform text is given for any member beyond title, district, and contact info. Read via the same Google Translate proxy method, for the same access-gap reason.](https://www.cityofperris.org/government/mayor-and-city-council)
3. [City of Perris -- "District Elections & Map" page: "Currently, the City Council consists of a directly elected Mayor and four Council Members who serve in four equally populated districts"; Districts 1 and 3 were elected in November 2022, Districts 2 and 4 in November 2024 (both on 4-year terms, so 1 and 3 are up again this November); the district map was adopted by Ordinance No. 1415 in March 2022. Read via the same Google Translate proxy method as perris-election-2026, for the same access-gap reason.](https://www.cityofperris.org/government/city-council/district-elections-information)
4. [Wikipedia -- "Perris, California": describes the city as operating a council-manager government, names Mayor Michael M. Vargas and Mayor Pro Tem David Starr Rabb, and lists Malcolm Corona, Marisela Nava, and Elizabeth Vallejo among current councilmembers -- independently corroborates the city's own roster (perris-city-council-2026) and that Perris's mayor is directly elected, not a rotating council-selected role (Mayor Pro Tem is a separate, lesser title held by a councilmember, not evidence of rotation). No candidate biography or occupational detail given.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perris,_California)
5. [City of Perris NetFile — public campaign-disclosure search](https://netfile.com/public/prs/campaign/search-entities)

## The rest of the ballot

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