Learn more about how to exercise your voting rights, resist voter intimidation efforts, and access disability-related accommodations and language assistance at the polls. For help at the polls, call the not-partisan Election Protection Hotline at one-866-OUR-VOTE.

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I need to annals to vote

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States have different voter registration deadlines and requirements, so make sure you are registered well in advance of Election Twenty-four hour period. Voter registration deadlines vary and some states permit individuals to register for the outset time and cast ballots on Election Twenty-four hours.

What to do

  • Check your registration status at Tin can I Vote.
  • If you are not registered to vote, go to vote.gov to observe your options. This link will provide information about your registration options, which may include online registration.

I need to discover my polling place

Every land offers options to vote in-person on Ballot Day, even those that primarily conduct elections by mail.

What to practice

  • Find your polling place or vote centre and its hours of functioning.
  • Make a plan for Election Day: When and where will you bandage your vote, and how will you become there?

I'm not sure what to bring to the polls

Your state may crave you lot to bring an ID or bring documents to testify your residence, especially if you're voting for the first time. Brand sure you're prepared.

What to do

  • Learn what materials you'll need to bring with you to the polling place on Election 24-hour interval.

I desire to vote earlier Election Twenty-four hours

Your rights

  • If you cannot vote in-person on Election 24-hour interval, you may be able to vote early or by absentee vote-by-postal service ballot.
  • Some states let whatsoever voter to vote absentee; others have stricter requirements.

What to practise

  • Acquire about your options to exercise absentee or early voting in your land.
  • Go along in mind that the deadline to asking an absentee ballot may exist before Election Twenty-four hours.

What are my general rights on Election Day?

Your rights

  • If the polls shut while y'all're still in line, stay in line – you lot have the right to vote.
  • If you brand a error on your ballot, ask for a new ane.
  • If the machines are downward at your polling place, ask for a paper ballot.
  • If you lot see any problems or take questions on Election Day, call the Election Protection Hotline:
    • English: ane-866-OUR-VOTE / ane-866-687-8683
    • Spanish: i-888-VE-Y-VOTA / one-888-839-8682
    • Arabic: 1-844-YALLA-U.s. / 1-844-925-5287
    • For Bengali, Cantonese, Hindi, Urdu, Korean, Mandarin, Tagalog, or Vietnamese: one-888-274-8683

The poll worker says my name is not on the listing of registered voters

Your rights

  • Voters are entitled to a conditional election, even if they aren't in the poll book.
  • After Election Day, election officials must investigate whether y'all are qualified to vote and registered. If you lot are qualified and registered, they volition count your provisional ballot.

What to do

  • Inquire the poll worker to double check for your proper noun on the listing of registered voters. Make sure to spell your proper noun out for the poll worker.
  • If your name is not on the list, ask if there is a supplemental list of voters.
  • If the poll worker still cannot observe your name, confirm that you are at the correct polling place:
    • Request that the poll workers check a statewide system (if one is bachelor) to run into if you lot are registered to vote at a different polling place.
    • If the poll worker does not accept admission to a statewide organisation, ask them to call the main election role.
    • You can too telephone call ane-866-OUR-VOTE and enquire for aid verifying your proper polling identify.
    • If yous are registered at a different location, in most instances y'all will have to travel to that location to bandage a regular ballot.
  • If the poll worker still cannot observe your proper name or if you cannot travel to the correct polling place, enquire for a provisional ballot.

Boosted information

  • If you are turned abroad or denied a conditional ballot, call the Election Protection Hotline at i-866-OUR-VOTE or 1-888-VE-Y-VOTA (en Español).
  • Study your experience to local ballot officials.

I am a voter with a inability

Your rights

  • Nether federal law, all polling places for federal elections must be fully accessible to older adults and voters with disabilities. But allowing curbside voting is not enough to meet Americans with Disabilities Human activity (ADA) accessibility requirements.
  • In federal elections, every polling place must have at least 1 voting arrangement that allows voters with disabilities to vote privately and independently. Normally, this is a machine that tin read the ballot to you lot (for people with vision disabilities or dyslexia), and let you vote by pushing buttons (for people with mobility disabilities).
  • Under federal law, voters with disabilities and voters who have difficulty reading or writing English have the right to receive in-person help at the polls from the person of their option. This helper cannot be the voter'southward employer, an agent of the voter'south employer, or an amanuensis or officer of the voter's spousal relationship. The helper must respect the voter'due south privacy, not looking at the voter's ballot unless the voter asks them to do so.
  • Election officials (including poll workers) must make reasonable accommodations as needed to help y'all vote.
  • Election officials must provide you with help if it's possible for them to practice so.
  • A voter with a mental inability cannot be turned abroad from the polls because a poll worker thinks they are not 'qualified' to vote.

What to do

  • You can bring a family unit member, friend, or another person of your pick to assistance you at the polls. Do not bring your employer, or an agent of your employer or wedlock.
  • If you bring a person to assist you, let the poll workers know that when you check in. They may enquire you to swear nether oath that y'all have a disability and that you lot accept asked that person to assistance you lot. Your helper may too be required to sign a grade swearing that they did non tell you how to vote.
  • If there are long lines and you have a physical or mental health condition or inability that makes information technology difficult for you to stand in line, tell a poll worker.
  • Tell election officials what you need. For example, if information technology's hard for you to stand, they should provide you with a chair or a place to sit while you wait. If the crowds or dissonance are difficult for you, election officials can find a quiet place for y'all to await and call you lot when it's your turn to vote.
  • If you are not able to enter your polling place considering the pathway to information technology is not fully attainable, ask poll workers for curbside assistance. Also phone call ane-866-OUR-VOTE to report the effect.
  • If y'all accept difficulty using the materials provided to make your ballot selections, review, or bandage your election, let a poll worker know and enquire for the assistance y'all demand. Accessibility is the law.
  • If yous face whatever challenges in voting privately and independently or are unable to cast your vote, report the trouble to the Election Protection hotline at i-866-OUR-VOTE. Trained attorneys can aid you and make sure that other voters practice non feel the aforementioned trouble.

     Additional information

  • Observe detailed voting guides at Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
  • For a toolkit on voting with a disability, visit the Autistic Self Advocacy Network.
  • Visit SABE'southward GoVoter Project for attainable trainings on how to exercise your rights as a voter with a disability.
  • Take a grade on polling place accessibility requirements at the Rocky Mountain ADA Center.
  • For voting in formation in American Sign Linguistic communication, visit SignVote.

I speak English language less than "very well"

Your rights

  • Nether federal law, voters who have difficulty reading or writing English language may receive in-person assistance at the polls from the person of their pick. This person cannot be the voter'southward employer, an amanuensis of the voter's employer, or an agent or officer of the voter's union.
  • Counties covered by Section 203 of the Voting Rights Human activity are required to provide bilingual assistance to voters in specific languages. This means that they must provide poll workers who speak certain languages, and brand all election materials and election-related information available in those languages. Cheque whether your canton is required to provide bilingual election aid in a language y'all speak.

What to exercise

  • You can bring a family member, friend, or other person of your choice to assist you at the polls. Do non bring your employer, or an agent of your employer or union.
  • If y'all live in a county that'south required to provide bilingual voting aid for a language you speak, you lot can request oral assistance from a bilingual poll worker and inquire for voting materials, such as a ballot, in that language.
  • If you lot have trouble voting due to lack of English fluency, telephone call 1 of these hotlines:
    • Spanish: 1-888-VE-Y-VOTA / ane-888-839-8682
    • Arabic: ane-844-YALLA-U.s.a. / 1-844-925-5287
    • English: 1-866-OUR-VOTE / 1-866-687-8683.
    • Bengali, Cantonese, Hindi, Urdu, Korean, Mandarin, Tagalog, Vietnamese): 1-888-API-VOTE / ane-888-274-8683

Boosted information

  • For detailed guidance on bilingual voting help, visit Asian Americans Advancing Justice.

Someone is interfering with my correct to vote

Examples of voter intimidation

  • Aggressively questioning voters about their citizenship, criminal record, or other qualifications to vote.
  • Falsely representing oneself as an elections official.
  • Displaying false or misleading signs almost voter fraud and related criminal penalties.
  • Other forms of harassment, particularly harassment targeting non-English speakers and voters of color.
  • Spreading imitation information about voter requirements.
    • Y'all do not need to speak English to vote, in any land.
    • You practice non need to laissez passer a test to vote, in any state.
    • Some states exercise not require voters to present photo identification.

Your rights

  • It's illegal to intimidate voters and a federal offense to "intimidate, threaten, [or] coerce … whatsoever other person for the purpose of interfering with the right of [that] other person to vote or to vote as he may cull."

What to do if yous experience voter intimidation

  • In many states, you lot can give a sworn statement to the poll worker that yous satisfy the qualifications to vote in your state, and then proceed to cast a ballot.
  • Report intimidation to the Election Protection Hotline at one-866-OUR-VOTE or 1-888-VE-Y-VOTA (en Español).
  • Study intimidation to your local election officials. Their offices volition be open on Election Day.