I just discovered that one can register to vote when filing the California tax forms.
California has a qualitatively different voting policy than those retrograde states. Here one can vote during a period of weeks, postage is free on mail ballots, you can register and vote (provisionally) at the same time, you can drop a ballot at any precinct in the state, there are mobile voting centers that will come to you, and there is a state law that promotes voting by every person who is eligible to vote.
And you can bring food and water to people waiting to vote.