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

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I need to register to vote

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States have unlike voter registration deadlines and requirements, and then make sure you lot are registered well in advance of Ballot Twenty-four hour period. Voter registration deadlines vary and some states allow individuals to register for the offset time and bandage ballots on Election Twenty-four hour period.

What to do

  • Check your registration status at Can I Vote.
  • If you are not registered to vote, go to vote.gov to find your options. This link volition provide information virtually your registration options, which may include online registration.

I need to find my polling place

Every country offers options to vote in-person on Election 24-hour interval, even those that primarily bear elections by mail.

What to practise

  • Find your polling place or vote middle and its hours of operation.
  • Make a plan for Election Day: When and where will you lot bandage your vote, and how volition yous become at that place?

I'm not sure what to bring to the polls

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

What to do

  • Learn what materials y'all'll demand to bring with y'all to the polling place on Ballot Day.

I want to vote earlier Election Solar day

Your rights

  • If you lot cannot vote in-person on Ballot Day, you may be able to vote early or by absentee vote-past-mail service ballot.
  • Some states allow any voter to vote absentee; others take stricter requirements.

What to practise

  • Larn about your options to exercise absentee or early voting in your country.
  • Proceed in listen that the deadline to request an absentee ballot may be before Election Day.

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

Your rights

  • If the polls shut while you're yet in line, stay in line – y'all have the right to vote.
  • If yous make a fault on your ballot, ask for a new i.
  • If the machines are down at your polling identify, ask for a paper election.
  • If yous run into whatsoever problems or have questions on Ballot 24-hour interval, call the Election Protection Hotline:
    • English: ane-866-OUR-VOTE / 1-866-687-8683
    • Spanish: i-888-VE-Y-VOTA / i-888-839-8682
    • Arabic: ane-844-YALLA-U.s. / 1-844-925-5287
    • For Bengali, Cantonese, Hindi, Urdu, Korean, Standard mandarin, Tagalog, or Vietnamese: 1-888-274-8683

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

Your rights

  • Voters are entitled to a conditional election, fifty-fifty if they aren't in the poll volume.
  • After Ballot Day, election officials must investigate whether you are qualified to vote and registered. If you lot are qualified and registered, they will count your conditional ballot.

What to do

  • Enquire the poll worker to double check for your proper name on the listing of registered voters. Make sure to spell your name out for the poll worker.
  • If your name is non on the list, ask if at that place is a supplemental list of voters.
  • If the poll worker still cannot find your name, confirm that y'all are at the right polling place:
    • Request that the poll workers check a statewide system (if one is available) to see if y'all are registered to vote at a dissimilar polling place.
    • If the poll worker does not accept admission to a statewide system, ask them to call the chief ballot office.
    • Yous tin also call ane-866-OUR-VOTE and ask for assistance verifying your proper polling place.
    • If you are registered at a different location, in most instances you volition have to travel to that location to bandage a regular election.
  • If the poll worker still cannot find your proper name or if you cannot travel to the correct polling place, ask for a provisional ballot.

Boosted information

  • If yous are turned abroad or denied a provisional ballot, telephone call the Ballot Protection Hotline at 1-866-OUR-VOTE or 1-888-VE-Y-VOTA (en Español).
  • Report 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 attainable to older adults and voters with disabilities. Simply allowing curbside voting is non enough to run into Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) accessibility requirements.
  • In federal elections, every polling place must have at least ane voting system that allows voters with disabilities to vote privately and independently. Unremarkably, this is a machine that can read the ballot to you (for people with vision disabilities or dyslexia), and let yous vote by pushing buttons (for people with mobility disabilities).
  • Nether federal constabulary, voters with disabilities and voters who take difficulty reading or writing English take the correct to receive in-person help at the polls from the person of their selection. This helper cannot be the voter'south 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, not looking at the voter'south election unless the voter asks them to do so.
  • Ballot officials (including poll workers) must brand reasonable accommodations as needed to assistance you vote.
  • Election officials must provide you with assist if information technology's possible for them to exercise so.
  • A voter with a mental disability cannot be turned abroad from the polls considering a poll worker thinks they are not 'qualified' to vote.

What to do

  • You can bring a family member, friend, or another person of your choice to assist you at the polls. Do non bring your employer, or an agent of your employer or union.
  • If you bring a person to assistance you lot, let the poll workers know that when y'all bank check in. They may ask you to swear nether oath that you accept a inability and that you take asked that person to help you. Your helper may also be required to sign a course swearing that they did not tell you how to vote.
  • If at that place are long lines and you lot have a physical or mental health condition or disability that makes it difficult for you to stand in line, tell a poll worker.
  • Tell election officials what you demand. For example, if it'southward hard for y'all to stand, they should provide you with a chair or a identify to sit while y'all wait. If the crowds or dissonance are hard for yous, election officials can find a repose place for yous to wait and telephone call yous when it's your turn to vote.
  • If you are not able to enter your polling place because the pathway to it is non fully accessible, ask poll workers for curbside assistance. Besides telephone call ane-866-OUR-VOTE to report the result.
  • If you have difficulty using the materials provided to make your ballot selections, review, or bandage your ballot, permit a poll worker know and enquire for the help you need. Accessibility is the police.
  • If you confront any challenges in voting privately and independently or are unable to cast your vote, report the trouble to the Election Protection hotline at 1-866-OUR-VOTE. Trained attorneys tin can assist you and make sure that other voters practise not feel the aforementioned trouble.

     Boosted information

  • Find detailed voting guides at Bazelon Middle for Mental Health Law
  • For a toolkit on voting with a disability, visit the Autistic Self Advocacy Network.
  • Visit SABE'south GoVoter Project for accessible trainings on how to practice your rights every bit a voter with a disability.
  • Take a course on polling place accessibility requirements at the Rocky Mountain ADA Center.
  • For voting in formation in American Sign Language, visit SignVote.

I speak English less than "very well"

Your rights

  • Nether federal law, voters who accept difficulty reading or writing English may receive in-person assistance at the polls from the person of their choice. This person cannot be the voter's employer, an agent of the voter'due south employer, or an agent or officer of the voter's union.
  • Counties covered by Section 203 of the Voting Rights Act are required to provide bilingual aid to voters in specific languages. This ways that they must provide poll workers who speak certain languages, and make all election materials and election-related information bachelor in those languages. Bank check whether your canton is required to provide bilingual election assistance in a language you speak.

What to do

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

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 about their citizenship, criminal tape, or other qualifications to vote.
  • Falsely representing oneself equally 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 false information virtually voter requirements.
    • You lot do not need to speak English to vote, in whatever country.
    • You exercise not demand to pass a test to vote, in whatsoever state.
    • Some states exercise not crave voters to present photograph identification.

Your rights

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

What to exercise if y'all feel voter intimidation

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