Larn 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 non-partisan Election Protection Hotline at one-866-OUR-VOTE.

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I demand to register to vote

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States have different voter registration deadlines and requirements, so make certain you are registered well in accelerate of Election Day. Voter registration deadlines vary and some states allow individuals to register for the showtime time and cast ballots on Election Twenty-four hours.

What to do

  • Check your registration status at Can I Vote.
  • If you are non registered to vote, go to vote.gov to find your options. This link volition provide information about your registration options, which may include online registration.

I need to find my polling place

Every land offers options to vote in-person on Election Day, fifty-fifty those that primarily carry elections by mail service.

What to do

  • Observe your polling place or vote heart and its hours of operation.
  • Brand a plan for Election Mean solar day: When and where will you cast your vote, and how will you lot get there?

I'm non certain what to bring to the polls

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

What to do

  • Learn what materials you lot'll demand to bring with you to the polling identify on Ballot Day.

I desire to vote before Election Twenty-four hours

Your rights

  • If you cannot vote in-person on Ballot Twenty-four hour period, you lot may be able to vote early on or by absentee vote-by-postal service ballot.
  • Some states let any voter to vote absentee; others have stricter requirements.

What to do

  • Larn about your options to do absentee or early voting in your state.
  • Keep in mind that the deadline to request an absentee ballot may exist before Election Twenty-four hours.

What are my general rights on Election Twenty-four hour period?

Your rights

  • If the polls close while you're all the same in line, stay in line – yous have the right to vote.
  • If you make a mistake on your election, enquire for a new one.
  • If the machines are downwardly at your polling identify, ask for a paper ballot.
  • If you come across any bug or accept questions on Ballot Mean solar day, telephone call the Election Protection Hotline:
    • English language: 1-866-OUR-VOTE / 1-866-687-8683
    • Spanish: 1-888-VE-Y-VOTA / one-888-839-8682
    • Arabic: 1-844-YALLA-US / 1-844-925-5287
    • For Bengali, Cantonese, Hindi, Urdu, Korean, Standard mandarin, Tagalog, or Vietnamese: one-888-274-8683

The poll worker says my name is non on the list of registered voters

Your rights

  • Voters are entitled to a provisional ballot, even if they aren't in the poll volume.
  • After Ballot 24-hour interval, election officials must investigate whether y'all are qualified to vote and registered. If you are qualified and registered, they will count your conditional ballot.

What to do

  • Ask the poll worker to double check for your name on the list of registered voters. Make sure to spell your proper name out for the poll worker.
  • If your name is not on the list, inquire if in that location is a supplemental listing of voters.
  • If the poll worker still cannot discover your name, confirm that yous are at the correct polling place:
    • Request that the poll workers bank check a statewide system (if ane is available) to come across if you are registered to vote at a different polling place.
    • If the poll worker does not have admission to a statewide system, enquire them to call the principal ballot office.
    • You lot can likewise call 1-866-OUR-VOTE and ask for help verifying your proper polling place.
    • If you are registered at a different location, in almost instances you lot will have to travel to that location to bandage a regular ballot.
  • If the poll worker still cannot find your name or if you cannot travel to the correct polling identify, ask for a provisional election.

Additional information

  • If you lot are turned away or denied a provisional election, call the Election Protection Hotline at 1-866-OUR-VOTE or 1-888-VE-Y-VOTA (en Español).
  • Study your feel to local election officials.

I am a voter with a disability

Your rights

  • Under federal law, all polling places for federal elections must be fully accessible to older adults and voters with disabilities. Simply allowing curbside voting is not enough to run into Americans with Disabilities Human action (ADA) accessibility requirements.
  • In federal elections, every polling place must accept at least ane voting system that allows voters with disabilities to vote privately and independently. Usually, this is a motorcar that tin read the ballot to you (for people with vision disabilities or dyslexia), and allow you vote by pushing buttons (for people with mobility disabilities).
  • Under federal law, voters with disabilities and voters who accept difficulty reading or writing English accept the right to receive in-person help at the polls from the person of their choice. This helper cannot exist the voter's employer, an agent of the voter's employer, or an agent or officeholder of the voter's union. The helper must respect the voter'south privacy, non looking at the voter's ballot unless the voter asks them to do so.
  • Ballot officials (including poll workers) must brand reasonable accommodations as needed to help you vote.
  • Election officials must provide you with help if it's possible for them to exercise so.
  • A voter with a mental disability cannot be turned away from the polls considering a poll worker thinks they are not 'qualified' to vote.

What to do

  • You lot can bring a family unit fellow member, friend, or another person of your choice to help you at the polls. Exercise not bring your employer, or an agent of your employer or union.
  • If you bring a person to assist you lot, let the poll workers know that when you lot check in. They may enquire you to swear under oath that y'all have a inability and that yous have asked that person to assist yous. Your helper may also be required to sign a form swearing that they did not tell yous how to vote.
  • If in that location are long lines and y'all take a physical or mental health condition or disability that makes it hard for you to stand up in line, tell a poll worker.
  • Tell ballot officials what you demand. For case, 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 noise are hard for you, election officials can discover a repose place for you to expect and call yous when it'south your plow to vote.
  • If y'all are not able to enter your polling place because the pathway to information technology is non fully accessible, ask poll workers for curbside assistance. Also telephone call i-866-OUR-VOTE to report the issue.
  • If you lot have difficulty using the materials provided to make your ballot selections, review, or bandage your ballot, permit a poll worker know and ask for the assistance you need. Accessibility is the police force.
  • If yous face any challenges in voting privately and independently or are unable to cast your vote, report the problem to the Election Protection hotline at one-866-OUR-VOTE. Trained attorneys can assist you and make certain that other voters do not experience the same problem.

     Additional information

  • Find detailed voting guides at Bazelon Heart for Mental Health Constabulary
  • For a toolkit on voting with a inability, visit the Autistic Self Advocacy Network.
  • Visit SABE'south GoVoter Projection for attainable trainings on how to exercise your rights equally a voter with a inability.
  • Accept a course on polling place accessibility requirements at the Rocky Mountain ADA Eye.
  • For voting in formation in American Sign Linguistic communication, visit SignVote.

I speak English less than "very well"

Your rights

  • Nether federal law, voters who have difficulty reading or writing English may receive in-person help at the polls from the person of their choice. This person cannot be the voter's employer, an amanuensis of the voter's employer, or an amanuensis or officer of the voter's union.
  • Counties covered by Section 203 of the Voting Rights Act 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 data available in those languages. Check whether your county is required to provide bilingual election assist in a language yous speak.

What to practice

  • Yous can bring a family member, friend, or other person of your choice to assist you at the polls. Do not bring your employer, or an agent of your employer or union.
  • If you live in a county that's required to provide bilingual voting assistance for a language you speak, you can request oral assist from a bilingual poll worker and inquire for voting materials, such as a election, in that linguistic communication.
  • If y'all have trouble voting due to lack of English fluency, call one of these hotlines:
    • Castilian: 1-888-VE-Y-VOTA / one-888-839-8682
    • Standard arabic: i-844-YALLA-US / 1-844-925-5287
    • English language: 1-866-OUR-VOTE / 1-866-687-8683.
    • Bengali, Cantonese, Hindi, Urdu, Korean, Standard mandarin, Tagalog, Vietnamese): 1-888-API-VOTE / one-888-274-8683

Additional information

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

Someone is interfering with my right to vote

Examples of voter intimidation

  • Aggressively questioning voters most their citizenship, criminal record, or other qualifications to vote.
  • Falsely representing oneself equally an elections official.
  • Displaying faux or misleading signs about voter fraud and related criminal penalties.
  • Other forms of harassment, particularly harassment targeting non-English speakers and voters of color.
  • Spreading false information about voter requirements.
    • You practise not demand to speak English to vote, in any state.
    • Yous do non need to pass a test to vote, in any state.
    • Some states practise not require voters to present photo identification.

Your rights

  • It'due south illegal to intimidate voters and a federal crime to "intimidate, threaten, [or] coerce … whatever 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 can give a sworn statement to the poll worker that you satisfy the qualifications to vote in your state, and then proceed to bandage a election.
  • Report intimidation to the Ballot Protection Hotline at 1-866-OUR-VOTE or 1-888-VE-Y-VOTA (en Español).
  • Report intimidation to your local election officials. Their offices will exist open on Election Day.