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, phone 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 different voter registration deadlines and requirements, so brand sure y'all are registered well in advance of Election Day. Voter registration deadlines vary and some states allow individuals to register for the first fourth dimension and cast ballots on Election Twenty-four hours.

What to practise

  • Check your registration status at Can I Vote.
  • If you are not registered to vote, get to vote.gov to detect your options. This link will provide information well-nigh your registration options, which may include online registration.

I demand to find my polling place

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

What to exercise

  • Find your polling place or vote center and its hours of performance.
  • Make a plan for Election 24-hour interval: When and where will you cast your vote, and how will y'all go there?

I'one thousand not sure what to bring to the polls

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

What to practice

  • Larn what materials y'all'll need to bring with you lot to the polling identify on Election Day.

I want to vote before Election Twenty-four hours

Your rights

  • If y'all cannot vote in-person on Ballot Solar day, you may be able to vote early on or by absentee vote-by-mail ballot.
  • Some states permit any voter to vote absentee; others have stricter requirements.

What to do

  • Learn about your options to exercise absentee or early voting in your state.
  • Keep in mind that the deadline to asking an absentee ballot may be earlier Ballot Twenty-four hour period.

What are my full general rights on Election Day?

Your rights

  • If the polls close while you lot're still in line, stay in line – you accept the right to vote.
  • If you brand a error on your ballot, enquire for a new 1.
  • If the machines are downward at your polling place, inquire for a newspaper ballot.
  • If you run into whatever bug or accept questions on Election 24-hour interval, telephone call the Election Protection Hotline:
    • English: 1-866-OUR-VOTE / 1-866-687-8683
    • Spanish: 1-888-VE-Y-VOTA / 1-888-839-8682
    • Arabic: 1-844-YALLA-Usa / 1-844-925-5287
    • For Bengali, Cantonese, Hindi, Urdu, Korean, Mandarin, Tagalog, or Vietnamese: 1-888-274-8683

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

Your rights

  • Voters are entitled to a provisional election, fifty-fifty if they aren't in the poll book.
  • Afterwards Election Day, election officials must investigate whether you are qualified to vote and registered. If you are qualified and registered, they will count your provisional ballot.

What to do

  • Enquire the poll worker to double cheque for your proper noun on the list of registered voters. Make certain to spell your name out for the poll worker.
  • If your name is non on the list, inquire if there is a supplemental list of voters.
  • If the poll worker however cannot find your name, confirm that y'all are at the right polling identify:
    • Asking that the poll workers check a statewide system (if one is available) to meet if yous are registered to vote at a unlike polling place.
    • If the poll worker does not have access to a statewide organization, ask them to phone call the main election function.
    • Y'all can as well call i-866-OUR-VOTE and inquire for assistance verifying your proper polling place.
    • If you are registered at a dissimilar location, in most instances you will have to travel to that location to cast a regular election.
  • If the poll worker notwithstanding cannot find your proper noun or if you cannot travel to the right polling place, ask for a provisional ballot.

Boosted information

  • If y'all are turned away or denied a provisional ballot, call the Election Protection Hotline at 1-866-OUR-VOTE or 1-888-VE-Y-VOTA (en Español).
  • Written report your experience to local election officials.

I am a voter with a disability

Your rights

  • Under federal police, all polling places for federal elections must exist fully accessible to older adults and voters with disabilities. Simply allowing curbside voting is not plenty to run across Americans with Disabilities Human action (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. Usually, this is a machine that tin read the election to you (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's employer, an agent of the voter'south employer, or an agent or officer of the voter's union. The helper must respect the voter's privacy, not looking at the voter'south ballot unless the voter asks them to practise so.
  • Ballot officials (including poll workers) must make reasonable accommodations as needed to help you lot vote.
  • Election officials must provide you lot with help if information technology'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 not 'qualified' to vote.

What to practise

  • You can bring a family member, friend, or another person of your option to assist you at the polls. Do non bring your employer, or an agent of your employer or marriage.
  • If you bring a person to assist you, let the poll workers know that when you check in. They may ask you lot to swear under adjuration that you have a disability and that yous have asked that person to help you. Your helper may also exist required to sign a grade swearing that they did non tell yous how to vote.
  • If there are long lines and you have a physical or mental health status or disability that makes it difficult for you lot to stand in line, tell a poll worker.
  • Tell election officials what yous need. For instance, if information technology'southward difficult for y'all to stand, they should provide yous with a chair or a identify to sit while you wait. If the crowds or dissonance are hard for you, election officials can find a quiet place for you to wait and call you lot when it's your plow to vote.
  • If you are not able to enter your polling identify because the pathway to it is not fully accessible, ask poll workers for curbside aid. Also phone call 1-866-OUR-VOTE to report the result.
  • If yous have difficulty using the materials provided to make your ballot selections, review, or cast your ballot, let a poll worker know and ask for the help you need. Accessibility is the constabulary.
  • If you face 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 can assist you and make sure that other voters exercise non experience the same problem.

     Additional information

  • Detect detailed voting guides at Bazelon Heart for Mental Wellness Law
  • For a toolkit on voting with a disability, visit the Autistic Self Advocacy Network.
  • Visit SABE's GoVoter Project for attainable trainings on how to practise your rights as a voter with a disability.
  • Take a course on polling place accessibility requirements at the Rocky Mountain ADA Heart.
  • For voting in germination in American Sign Language, 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 assistance at the polls from the person of their choice. This person cannot be the voter'southward employer, an agent of the voter's employer, or an agent or officer of the voter'south union.
  • Counties covered past 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. Check whether your canton is required to provide bilingual election assist in a language you speak.

What to do

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

Additional information

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

Someone is interfering with my right to vote

Examples of voter intimidation

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

Your rights

  • Information technology's 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 choose."

What to do if you experience voter intimidation

  • In many states, you can give a sworn statement to the poll worker that y'all satisfy the qualifications to vote in your state, and then go along to cast a ballot.
  • Study intimidation to the Election Protection Hotline at i-866-OUR-VOTE or 1-888-VE-Y-VOTA (en Español).
  • Report intimidation to your local ballot officials. Their offices will be open on Election Twenty-four hours.