Larn more than almost how to exercise your voting rights, resist voter intimidation efforts, and access disability-related accommodations and linguistic communication assistance at the polls. For help at the polls, call the non-partisan Ballot Protection Hotline at i-866-OUR-VOTE.

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I need to annals to vote

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States accept different voter registration deadlines and requirements, so brand sure yous are registered well in accelerate of Election Day. Voter registration deadlines vary and some states let individuals to register for the start time and cast ballots on Election Twenty-four hours.

What to practise

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

I need to find my polling identify

Every state offers options to vote in-person on Ballot Mean solar day, even those that primarily carry elections past postal service.

What to practice

  • Notice your polling place or vote center and its hours of operation.
  • Make a plan for Election 24-hour interval: When and where will you bandage your vote, and how will yous get at that place?

I'm non certain what to bring to the polls

Your state may require yous to bring an ID or bring documents to show your residence, peculiarly if you're voting for the first fourth dimension. Make sure you're prepared.

What to do

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

I want to vote before Election 24-hour interval

Your rights

  • If you cannot vote in-person on Election Mean solar day, you may be able to vote early on or by absentee vote-by-mail ballot.
  • Some states allow any voter to vote absentee; others take stricter requirements.

What to do

  • Learn most your options to exercise absentee or early voting in your state.
  • Continue in mind that the deadline to request an absentee ballot may be before Election Day.

What are my general rights on Election 24-hour interval?

Your rights

  • If the polls close while y'all're nonetheless in line, stay in line – you lot have the right to vote.
  • If you make a mistake on your election, ask for a new 1.
  • If the machines are downwards at your polling place, ask for a paper election.
  • If yous meet whatsoever problems or take questions on Ballot Day, call the Election Protection Hotline:
    • English language: i-866-OUR-VOTE / i-866-687-8683
    • Spanish: 1-888-VE-Y-VOTA / 1-888-839-8682
    • Arabic: 1-844-YALLA-US / 1-844-925-5287
    • For Bengali, Cantonese, Hindi, Urdu, Korean, Standard mandarin, Tagalog, or Vietnamese: 1-888-274-8683

The poll worker says my proper noun 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 Election Day, election officials must investigate whether you are qualified to vote and registered. If y'all are qualified and registered, they will count your provisional ballot.

What to do

  • 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 proper noun is not on the list, ask if there is a supplemental list of voters.
  • If the poll worker yet cannot find your name, confirm that you are at the correct polling place:
    • Asking that the poll workers check a statewide system (if i is available) to encounter if you lot are registered to vote at a dissimilar polling place.
    • If the poll worker does non have access to a statewide system, ask them to phone call the primary ballot office.
    • You tin can also call 1-866-OUR-VOTE and inquire for assist verifying your proper polling place.
    • If you are registered at a unlike location, in well-nigh instances you will have to travel to that location to cast 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.

Additional information

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

I am a voter with a disability

Your rights

  • Under federal constabulary, all polling places for federal elections must be fully accessible to older adults and voters with disabilities. Simply allowing curbside voting is non enough to meet Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) accessibility requirements.
  • In federal elections, every polling place must take at least i voting arrangement that allows voters with disabilities to vote privately and independently. Commonly, this is a machine that tin read the ballot to you (for people with vision disabilities or dyslexia), and let you lot vote by pushing buttons (for people with mobility disabilities).
  • Under federal constabulary, voters with disabilities and voters who take difficulty reading or writing English have the correct to receive in-person assistance at the polls from the person of their choice. This helper cannot exist the voter's employer, an agent of the voter's employer, or an agent or officeholder of the voter's union. The helper must respect the voter'southward privacy, not looking at the voter'south ballot unless the voter asks them to do and then.
  • Ballot officials (including poll workers) must brand reasonable accommodations as needed to help you vote.
  • Ballot officials must provide you with help if it's possible for them to do 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 tin can bring a family member, friend, or some other person of your choice to assist you at the polls. Do not bring your employer, or an agent of your employer or wedlock.
  • If you lot bring a person to assist you lot, let the poll workers know that when you bank check in. They may enquire yous to swear under oath that you accept a disability and that you have asked that person to help you. Your helper may also be required to sign a form swearing that they did not tell y'all how to vote.
  • If there are long lines and you have a concrete or mental health condition or disability that makes it difficult for yous to stand in line, tell a poll worker.
  • Tell ballot officials what you demand. For instance, if information technology'south 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 yous, ballot officials can find a tranquillity place for yous to wait and telephone call y'all when it's your plough to vote.
  • If you are non able to enter your polling identify because the pathway to information technology 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 cast your ballot, permit a poll worker know and enquire for the assist y'all need. Accessibility is the law.
  • If you lot face 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.

     Boosted information

  • Find detailed voting guides at Bazelon Middle for Mental Wellness Law
  • For a toolkit on voting with a inability, visit the Autistic Self Advocacy Network.
  • Visit SABE's GoVoter Project for accessible trainings on how to exercise your rights as a voter with a disability.
  • Take a course on polling identify 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 law, voters who have difficulty reading or writing English may receive in-person assistance at the polls from the person of their pick. This person cannot be the voter's employer, an agent of the voter's 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 assistance to voters in specific languages. This means that they must provide poll workers who speak certain languages, and make all ballot materials and ballot-related data available in those languages. Check whether your canton is required to provide bilingual election assistance in a language you speak.

What to do

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

Boosted 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 equally an elections official.
  • Displaying false or misleading signs virtually voter fraud and related criminal penalties.
  • Other forms of harassment, particularly harassment targeting non-English speakers and voters of colour.
  • Spreading false information almost voter requirements.
    • You do not need to speak English to vote, in any state.
    • You practice not need to pass a test to vote, in whatsoever state.
    • Some states do not require voters to present 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 as he may cull."

What to practice 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 country, and and then go on to cast a ballot.
  • Written report intimidation to the Election Protection Hotline at 1-866-OUR-VOTE or 1-888-VE-Y-VOTA (en Español).
  • Report intimidation to your local election officials. Their offices will be open on Election Day.