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Voting and election websites by US state
Some of you may remember this post that I did for the 2018 US midterm elections. This is the 2020 version. I note that with COVID-19, you’ll probably want to check not just by state but by your local-level election authority for details on your own voting; your local Democratic party may be a good resource as well.
I would estimate that at least half the links from last election had changed when I looked them up, so doing this again for this election was definitely not redundant.
Some notes: compared to last election, many of the websites seem a lot more thorough and well-organized; as a result, and in order to speed up my getting this posted, I didn’t spend a lot of time hunting down specific links to referenda and sample ballots--- not least because with COVID-19, enough of us are probably voting by mail that we’ll have the ballots themselves in hand with time to do our research on any “surprise” items in them.
Last but not least, I’m sure just about anyone on this comm probably knows their own state’s online election resources by heart, but if you’ve got friends and family elsewhere who need help, or (especially) if you’re phonebanking or textbanking to people out of state, having a handy guide to their state’s election material might help. (In this the age of cellphones, it’s totally not unheard of to call someone with an area code assigned to one state and find that they’re in another.)
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I would estimate that at least half the links from last election had changed when I looked them up, so doing this again for this election was definitely not redundant.
Some notes: compared to last election, many of the websites seem a lot more thorough and well-organized; as a result, and in order to speed up my getting this posted, I didn’t spend a lot of time hunting down specific links to referenda and sample ballots--- not least because with COVID-19, enough of us are probably voting by mail that we’ll have the ballots themselves in hand with time to do our research on any “surprise” items in them.
Last but not least, I’m sure just about anyone on this comm probably knows their own state’s online election resources by heart, but if you’ve got friends and family elsewhere who need help, or (especially) if you’re phonebanking or textbanking to people out of state, having a handy guide to their state’s election material might help. (In this the age of cellphones, it’s totally not unheard of to call someone with an area code assigned to one state and find that they’re in another.)
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