The winners of Districts 1 and 3 will join a five-member board that oversees a county of about 3 million residents with an annual budget of about $9 billion.
Voters are being asked to decide on requiring IDs for municipal elections, requiring unanimous votes by the council for the display of most flags and moving to a two-year budgeting cycle.
The outcome of the effort to recall two conservative Orange Unified trustees, Rick Ledesma and Madison Miner, could reshape the board overseeing a district serving 26,000 students.