Learn more about 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, call the non-partisan Election Protection Hotline at 1-866-OUR-VOTE.

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I need to register to vote

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States take different voter registration deadlines and requirements, so make sure you are registered well in accelerate of Election 24-hour interval. Voter registration deadlines vary and some states allow individuals to register for the beginning time and cast ballots on Ballot Twenty-four hours.

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 will provide data almost 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 Day, even those that primarily behave elections by mail.

What to do

  • Find your polling place or vote center and its hours of operation.
  • Make a plan for Ballot Solar day: When and where will you bandage your vote, and how volition you lot become there?

I'thou not sure what to bring to the polls

Your state may require y'all to bring an ID or bring documents to evidence your residence, specially if you're voting for the first time. Make certain you're prepared.

What to exercise

  • Acquire what materials you'll need to bring with you to the polling place on Election Twenty-four hour period.

I desire to vote before Election Solar day

Your rights

  • If you cannot vote in-person on Election 24-hour interval, yous may be able to vote early or by absentee vote-by-mail ballot.
  • Some states allow any voter to vote absentee; others have stricter requirements.

What to practice

  • Learn nigh your options to exercise absentee or early voting in your country.
  • Keep in mind that the deadline to request an absentee election may exist before Election Day.

What are my general rights on Election Solar day?

Your rights

  • If the polls close while you're still in line, stay in line – you take the right to vote.
  • If you make a mistake on your ballot, ask for a new one.
  • If the machines are down at your polling identify, ask for a paper election.
  • If y'all run into any problems or take questions on Election Day, phone call the Election Protection Hotline:
    • English: 1-866-OUR-VOTE / ane-866-687-8683
    • Spanish: one-888-VE-Y-VOTA / one-888-839-8682
    • Arabic: ane-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 name is non 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.
  • After Election Twenty-four hour period, election officials must investigate whether yous are qualified to vote and registered. If you are qualified and registered, they will count your provisional ballot.

What to do

  • Ask the poll worker to double cheque for your name on the listing of registered voters. Make sure to spell your proper noun out for the poll worker.
  • If your name is not on the list, ask if there is a supplemental listing of voters.
  • If the poll worker still cannot find your proper noun, confirm that you are at the right polling place:
    • Request that the poll workers check a statewide system (if 1 is available) to come across if you are registered to vote at a different polling place.
    • If the poll worker does non accept access to a statewide system, ask them to call the main ballot office.
    • You can also phone call one-866-OUR-VOTE and ask for help verifying your proper polling place.
    • If you lot are registered at a different location, in well-nigh instances you will have to travel to that location to cast a regular ballot.
  • If the poll worker notwithstanding cannot find your name or if you lot cannot travel to the right polling place, ask for a conditional ballot.

Additional information

  • If you are turned abroad or denied a provisional ballot, call the Election Protection Hotline at ane-866-OUR-VOTE or one-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 accessible to older adults and voters with disabilities. Only allowing curbside voting is not enough to come across Americans with Disabilities Human action (ADA) accessibility requirements.
  • In federal elections, every polling identify must accept at least i 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 past pushing buttons (for people with mobility disabilities).
  • Under federal law, voters with disabilities and voters who accept difficulty reading or writing English language have the right to receive in-person assistance at the polls from the person of their choice. This helper cannot be the voter'south employer, an agent of the voter'south employer, or an amanuensis or officer of the voter's union. The helper must respect the voter's privacy, not looking at the voter'due south 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 information technology's possible for them to practise so.
  • A voter with a mental disability cannot exist turned away from the polls because a poll worker thinks they are not 'qualified' to vote.

What to do

  • You tin can bring a family member, friend, or some other person of your option to assist yous at the polls. Do not bring your employer, or an agent of your employer or union.
  • If you bring a person to assist you, let the poll workers know that when y'all check in. They may ask yous to swear nether oath that you have a disability and that you have asked that person to help you. Your helper may likewise be required to sign a course swearing that they did not tell you lot how to vote.
  • If in that location are long lines and you lot have a physical or mental wellness condition or disability that makes it difficult for yous to stand in line, tell a poll worker.
  • Tell election officials what you need. For example, if it's difficult for you to stand, they should provide you with a chair or a identify to sit while yous wait. If the crowds or racket are hard for yous, ballot officials tin can find a tranquility place for you to wait and phone call you when it's your turn to vote.
  • If you are not able to enter your polling place because the pathway to it is not fully accessible, ask poll workers for curbside assistance. Also call 1-866-OUR-VOTE to report the issue.
  • If you have difficulty using the materials provided to make your ballot selections, review, or bandage your ballot, let a poll worker know and ask for the help yous need. Accessibility is the law.
  • If yous confront any challenges in voting privately and independently or are unable to cast your vote, study the problem to the Election Protection hotline at i-866-OUR-VOTE. Trained attorneys can aid you and brand sure that other voters do not experience the aforementioned problem.

     Additional data

  • Detect detailed voting guides at Bazelon Center for Mental Wellness Law
  • For a toolkit on voting with a inability, visit the Autistic Self Advocacy Network.
  • Visit SABE's GoVoter Project for attainable trainings on how to do your rights every bit a voter with a disability.
  • Take a grade 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

  • Under federal police force, voters who accept difficulty reading or writing English may receive in-person aid at the polls from the person of their selection. This person cannot be the voter'due south employer, an agent of the voter's employer, or an agent or officeholder of the voter'due south matrimony.
  • Counties covered past Department 203 of the Voting Rights Human action 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 information bachelor in those languages. Check whether your county is required to provide bilingual election aid in a language you speak.

What to practise

  • Yous can bring a family member, friend, or other person of your selection to help yous at the polls. Do not bring your employer, or an amanuensis of your employer or marriage.
  • If you live in a canton that'due south required to provide bilingual voting help for a language you speak, you can request oral assistance from a bilingual poll worker and ask for voting materials, such as a ballot, in that linguistic communication.
  • If you lot take problem voting due to lack of English language fluency, call one of these hotlines:
    • Spanish: one-888-VE-Y-VOTA / 1-888-839-8682
    • Arabic: 1-844-YALLA-U.s. / i-844-925-5287
    • English: 1-866-OUR-VOTE / i-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 assistance, 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 equally an elections official.
  • Displaying false or misleading signs nearly voter fraud and related criminal penalties.
  • Other forms of harassment, particularly harassment targeting not-English language speakers and voters of color.
  • Spreading imitation information about voter requirements.
    • You do non need to speak English to vote, in whatsoever state.
    • You do not need to pass a test to vote, in any state.
    • Some states do non require voters to nowadays photo 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 do if you feel voter intimidation

  • In many states, you tin can give a sworn argument to the poll worker that you satisfy the qualifications to vote in your state, and so proceed to cast 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 volition be open on Election Day.