Learn more than virtually how to exercise your voting rights, resist voter intimidation efforts, and access inability-related accommodations and linguistic communication assist at the polls. For help at the polls, phone 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 sure you 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 Day.

What to do

  • Bank 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 will provide information about your registration options, which may include online registration.

I need to find my polling place

Every state offers options to vote in-person on Election Twenty-four hours, fifty-fifty those that primarily acquit elections by mail service.

What to exercise

  • Find your polling place or vote heart and its hours of operation.
  • Brand a programme for Election Day: When and where will you lot cast your vote, and how will you get in that location?

I'm not sure what to bring to the polls

Your state may crave you to bring an ID or bring documents to show your residence, peculiarly if you're voting for the first time. Make certain yous're prepared.

What to practise

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

I want to vote before Ballot Day

Your rights

  • If you cannot vote in-person on Ballot Solar day, you may exist able to vote early or by absentee vote-by-mail service election.
  • Some states allow any voter to vote absentee; others have stricter requirements.

What to practise

  • Larn about your options to practice absentee or early voting in your state.
  • Keep in listen that the deadline to request an absentee ballot may be before Election Twenty-four hour period.

What are my full general rights on Election Twenty-four hours?

Your rights

  • If the polls close while you're nevertheless in line, stay in line – yous take the right to vote.
  • If y'all make a mistake on your ballot, ask for a new one.
  • If the machines are down at your polling place, ask for a paper ballot.
  • If you run into any issues or take questions on Election Solar day, phone 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: one-844-YALLA-U.s. / 1-844-925-5287
    • For Bengali, Cantonese, Hindi, Urdu, Korean, Mandarin, Tagalog, or Vietnamese: 1-888-274-8683

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

Your rights

  • Voters are entitled to a provisional ballot, even if they aren't in the poll book.
  • After Ballot Mean solar day, election officials must investigate whether you are qualified to vote and registered. If you are qualified and registered, they will count your provisional election.

What to practise

  • Ask the poll worker to double check for your name on the list of registered voters. Brand sure to spell your name out for the poll worker.
  • If your name is non on the listing, 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 correct polling place:
    • Request that the poll workers bank check a statewide system (if ane is available) to run into if you are registered to vote at a different polling identify.
    • If the poll worker does not have access to a statewide system, ask them to call the principal ballot office.
    • Yous can too telephone call 1-866-OUR-VOTE and ask for help verifying your proper polling place.
    • If y'all are registered at a unlike location, in near instances yous will have to travel to that location to bandage a regular election.
  • If the poll worker still cannot detect your name or if you cannot travel to the correct polling place, inquire for a conditional ballot.

Additional information

  • If you are turned abroad or denied a provisional ballot, call the Election Protection Hotline at one-866-OUR-VOTE or 1-888-VE-Y-VOTA (en Español).
  • 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 be fully accessible to older adults and voters with disabilities. Merely 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 one voting system that allows voters with disabilities to vote privately and independently. Usually, this is a machine that can read the ballot to you (for people with vision disabilities or dyslexia), and let you vote by pushing buttons (for people with mobility disabilities).
  • Nether federal police, voters with disabilities and voters who have difficulty reading or writing English language have the right to receive in-person help at the polls from the person of their choice. This helper cannot be the voter'south employer, an agent of the voter's employer, or an agent or officer of the voter's union. The helper must respect the voter'southward 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 assist y'all vote.
  • Ballot 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 considering a poll worker thinks they are not 'qualified' to vote.

What to do

  • You tin bring a family member, friend, or another person of your choice to assist you at the polls. Do not bring your employer, or an agent of your employer or wedlock.
  • If yous bring a person to assist you, allow the poll workers know that when you check in. They may inquire you lot to swear under oath that you accept a inability and that you lot accept asked that person to help you lot. Your helper may besides exist required to sign a grade swearing that they did not tell you how to vote.
  • If there are long lines and y'all have a concrete or mental wellness status or disability that makes it difficult for you to stand in line, tell a poll worker.
  • Tell election officials what you lot need. For example, if it's hard for you lot 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, ballot officials can detect a placidity place for y'all to wait and call you lot when information technology's your turn to vote.
  • If you are not able to enter your polling place because the pathway to information technology is not fully accessible, ask poll workers for curbside help. Also call 1-866-OUR-VOTE to report the effect.
  • If you 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 law.
  • If y'all face whatsoever challenges in voting privately and independently or are unable to cast your vote, report the trouble to the Ballot Protection hotline at 1-866-OUR-VOTE. Trained attorneys tin can assistance you and brand sure that other voters do not feel the same trouble.

     Additional information

  • Detect detailed voting guides at Bazelon Center for Mental Health Constabulary
  • For a toolkit on voting with a disability, visit the Autistic Cocky Advocacy Network.
  • Visit SABE's GoVoter Projection for attainable trainings on how to exercise your rights as a voter with a disability.
  • Take a form 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

  • Under federal law, voters who have difficulty reading or writing English may receive in-person help at the polls from the person of their selection. This person cannot exist the voter's employer, an agent of the voter's employer, or an agent or officer of the voter's marriage.
  • 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 make all election materials and election-related information available in those languages. Cheque whether your canton is required to provide bilingual election assistance in a language yous speak.

What to do

  • You tin bring a family member, friend, or other person of your pick to assist you at the polls. Do not bring your employer, or an agent of your employer or marriage.
  • If you live in a county that's required to provide bilingual voting assistance for a language you lot speak, y'all can request oral assistance from a bilingual poll worker and enquire for voting materials, such equally a election, in that language.
  • If you have trouble voting due to lack of English fluency, telephone call one of these hotlines:
    • Spanish: i-888-VE-Y-VOTA / one-888-839-8682
    • Arabic: 1-844-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): one-888-API-VOTE / 1-888-274-8683

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 about their citizenship, criminal record, or other qualifications to vote.
  • Falsely representing oneself every bit 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 colour.
  • Spreading false information about voter requirements.
    • You do non need to speak English to vote, in whatever state.
    • You lot practice not demand to laissez passer a test to vote, in any state.
    • Some states do not crave voters to present photograph identification.

Your rights

  • It's illegal to intimidate voters and a federal crime 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 as he may cull."

What to exercise if you feel voter intimidation

  • In many states, you can give a sworn argument to the poll worker that you satisfy the qualifications to vote in your state, and so go on to bandage a ballot.
  • Study intimidation to the Election Protection Hotline at ane-866-OUR-VOTE or ane-888-VE-Y-VOTA (en Español).
  • Report intimidation to your local election officials. Their offices will be open on Ballot Day.