Larn more than most how to practise your voting rights, resist voter intimidation efforts, and access inability-related accommodations and language assist at the polls. For help at the polls, call the non-partisan Election Protection Hotline at 1-866-OUR-VOTE.

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I need to annals to vote

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States have dissimilar voter registration deadlines and requirements, then brand sure you lot are registered well in advance of Election 24-hour interval. Voter registration deadlines vary and some states allow individuals to register for the first time and bandage ballots on Election Day.

What to do

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

I need to detect my polling place

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

What to do

  • Find your polling identify or vote center and its hours of operation.
  • Make a plan for Election Day: When and where will you lot cast your vote, and how volition you get in that location?

I'm not sure what to bring to the polls

Your state may crave y'all to bring an ID or bring documents to bear witness your residence, specially if you're voting for the start time. Brand sure you're prepared.

What to do

  • Learn what materials y'all'll need to bring with yous to the polling place on Ballot Twenty-four hours.

I want to vote before Election Twenty-four hour period

Your rights

  • If yous cannot vote in-person on Election Twenty-four hours, you may be able to vote early on or by absentee vote-by-mail ballot.
  • Some states permit whatever voter to vote absentee; others accept stricter requirements.

What to do

  • Larn about your options to exercise absentee or early on voting in your state.
  • Keep in mind that the borderline to request an absentee ballot may exist before Election Twenty-four hour period.

What are my full general rights on Election Day?

Your rights

  • If the polls close while you're however in line, stay in line – you lot have the right to vote.
  • If you make a mistake on your election, ask for a new ane.
  • If the machines are down at your polling identify, ask for a paper ballot.
  • If you lot see any problems or have questions on Ballot Mean solar day, telephone call the Election Protection Hotline:
    • English: one-866-OUR-VOTE / 1-866-687-8683
    • Castilian: 1-888-VE-Y-VOTA / 1-888-839-8682
    • Arabic: 1-844-YALLA-US / 1-844-925-5287
    • For Bengali, Cantonese, Hindi, Urdu, Korean, Mandarin, Tagalog, or Vietnamese: i-888-274-8683

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

Your rights

  • Voters are entitled to a provisional election, fifty-fifty if they aren't in the poll book.
  • Afterward Ballot Twenty-four hour period, election officials must investigate whether you are qualified to vote and registered. If yous are qualified and registered, they will count your provisional ballot.

What to practise

  • Ask the poll worker to double check for your name on the list of registered voters. Make sure to spell your name out for the poll worker.
  • If your proper noun is not on the list, ask if in that location is a supplemental list of voters.
  • If the poll worker still cannot notice your name, confirm that you lot are at the correct polling place:
    • Request that the poll workers cheque a statewide arrangement (if one is available) to run across if you are registered to vote at a different polling place.
    • If the poll worker does non have access to a statewide system, ask them to call the main election office.
    • Y'all can also telephone call one-866-OUR-VOTE and ask for help verifying your proper polling place.
    • If yous are registered at a different location, in virtually instances you 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 place, ask for a provisional ballot.

Boosted information

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

I am a voter with a inability

Your rights

  • Nether federal law, all polling places for federal elections must exist fully accessible to older adults and voters with disabilities. Simply allowing curbside voting is not enough to meet Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) accessibility requirements.
  • In federal elections, every polling place must take at least one voting system that allows voters with disabilities to vote privately and independently. Usually, this is a car that can read the election to you (for people with vision disabilities or dyslexia), and let y'all vote past 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 aid at the polls from the person of their choice. This helper cannot be the voter's employer, an amanuensis of the voter'south employer, or an agent or officer of the voter's union. The helper must respect the voter'southward privacy, not looking at the voter'due south election 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 lot with help if it'southward possible for them to practise so.
  • A voter with a mental disability cannot be turned away from the polls because a poll worker thinks they are non 'qualified' to vote.

What to do

  • You lot tin can bring a family member, friend, or another person of your choice to help you at the polls. Practise non bring your employer, or an agent of your employer or marriage.
  • If you bring a person to assist you, permit the poll workers know that when you bank check in. They may ask y'all to swear under adjuration that yous have a disability and that you have asked that person to assistance you. Your helper may as well be required to sign a form swearing that they did not tell you how to vote.
  • If there are long lines and you have a concrete or mental health condition or disability that makes it difficult for you to stand in line, tell a poll worker.
  • Tell ballot officials what yous need. For example, if it'south hard for y'all to stand, they should provide you with a chair or a identify to sit while you await. If the crowds or racket are hard for y'all, election officials can find a quiet place for yous to expect and telephone call y'all when information technology'south your plough to vote.
  • If yous are not able to enter your polling identify because the pathway to it is not fully accessible, inquire poll workers for curbside assistance. Also call ane-866-OUR-VOTE to report the result.
  • If you have difficulty using the materials provided to brand your election selections, review, or bandage your election, let a poll worker know and enquire for the help you need. Accessibility is the constabulary.
  • If you face up any challenges in voting privately and independently or are unable to cast your vote, report the problem to the Election Protection hotline at 1-866-OUR-VOTE. Trained attorneys can assist y'all and make sure that other voters do not experience the same problem.

     Additional data

  • Find detailed voting guides at Bazelon Centre for Mental Health Law
  • For a toolkit on voting with a disability, visit the Autistic Cocky Advocacy Network.
  • Visit SABE'southward GoVoter Projection for accessible trainings on how to exercise your rights equally a voter with a inability.
  • Take a class on polling place accessibility requirements at the Rocky Mount ADA Center.
  • For voting in formation in American Sign Language, visit SignVote.

I speak English less than "very well"

Your rights

  • Under federal law, voters who take difficulty reading or writing English may receive in-person aid at the polls from the person of their option. This person cannot be the voter's employer, an amanuensis of the voter's employer, or an agent or officeholder of the voter's union.
  • Counties covered past 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 sure languages, and brand all election materials and ballot-related information available in those languages. Cheque whether your county is required to provide bilingual election aid in a linguistic communication you speak.

What to exercise

  • You tin can bring a family unit fellow member, friend, or other person of your choice to assist you at the polls. Exercise not bring your employer, or an agent of your employer or wedlock.
  • If you live in a county that's required to provide bilingual voting assist for a linguistic communication you speak, you can asking oral assistance from a bilingual poll worker and ask for voting materials, such as a ballot, in that language.
  • If you have problem voting due to lack of English fluency, call 1 of these hotlines:
    • Spanish: ane-888-VE-Y-VOTA / 1-888-839-8682
    • Arabic: i-844-YALLA-US / 1-844-925-5287
    • English language: 1-866-OUR-VOTE / ane-866-687-8683.
    • Bengali, Cantonese, Hindi, Urdu, Korean, Standard mandarin, Tagalog, Vietnamese): i-888-API-VOTE / i-888-274-8683

Additional information

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

Someone is interfering with my right to vote

Examples of voter intimidation

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

Your rights

  • Information technology'due south illegal to intimidate voters and a federal criminal offence to "intimidate, threaten, [or] coerce … any other person for the purpose of interfering with the correct of [that] other person to vote or to vote as he may choose."

What to do if you experience voter intimidation

  • In many states, you lot can requite a sworn statement to the poll worker that you satisfy the qualifications to vote in your state, and then go on to bandage a election.
  • Report intimidation to the Ballot Protection Hotline at one-866-OUR-VOTE or i-888-VE-Y-VOTA (en Español).
  • Written report intimidation to your local election officials. Their offices will exist open on Ballot Solar day.