Voting and election websites by US state

[sathari]

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.)

General resources:

Vote411.org

Ivoterguide.com

Alabama:
https://www.sos.alabama.gov/alabama-votes

- This link includes an interesting program that allows you to vote in honor of a veteran; perhaps any of our Alabama members or friends in that state would like to vote in honor of one of the prominent retired officers who’ve spoken out about the actions of this administration?)       

Alaska:
https://www.elections.alaska.gov/

Arizona:
https://azsos.gov/elections/voting-election

Arkansas:
https://azsos.gov/elections/voting-electionazsos.gov/elections/voting-election

California:
https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections

Further voting information: https://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/

California, like D.C. below, will be sending mail-in ballots to every registered voter.

Colorado:

Colorado apparently makes a list of all registered voters in the state publicly available here: http://www.coloradovoters.info/

Information on how to vote is here: https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/vote/VoterHome.html

Connecticut:
https://portal.ct.gov/SOTS/Common-Elements/V5-Template---Redesign/Elections--Voting--Home-Page

This is another state where information on registered voters is publicly available, though this database is not only expressly listed as being privately maintained, it appears to favor the defeat of the current executive incumbent: http://connvoters.com/

D.C.:
Board of Elections website: https://www.dcboe.org/

(It states at the top of the page that all active voters will be sent a mail-in ballot beginning the first week in October.)

Delaware:
https://elections.delaware.gov/index.shtml

Florida:
https://www.dos.myflorida.com/elections/for-voters/

Georgia:
https://www.mvp.sos.ga.gov/MVP/mvp.do

Hawaii:
https://elections.hawaii.gov/

Idaho:
https://idahovotes.gov/

Illinois:
https://www.elections.il.gov/

Indiana:
https://www.in.gov/sos/elections/2398.htm

Iowa:
(This one came up far more easily this year!) https://sos.iowa.gov/elections/voterinformation/index.html

Kansas:

In contrast to the midterms, Kansas is now putting its secretary of state’s website on a .gov page like every other state (last time I did this, it was kssos.org):

https://sos.ks.gov/elections/voter-information.html

Kentucky:
https://vrsws.sos.ky.gov/ovrweb/govoteky

Louisiana:
https://www.sos.la.gov/ElectionsAndVoting/GetElectionInformation/Pages/default.aspx

Maine:
https://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/elec/voter-info/index.html

Maryland:
https://elections.maryland.gov/

Massachusetts:
https://www.mass.gov/topics/voting

Michigan:
https://mvic.sos.state.mi.us/

Minnesota:
https://www.sos.state.mn.us/elections-voting/

Mississippi:
https://www.sos.ms.gov/Vote/Pages/default.aspx

Missouri:
https://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/

Montana:
General information on elections: https://sosmt.gov/elections/

Voter information: https://app.mt.gov/voterinfo/

Nebraska:
https://sos.nebraska.gov/elections/general-voter-information

Nevada:
https://www.nvsos.gov/sos/elections/voters

New Hampshire:
https://sos.nh.gov/elections/information/election-laws/new-hampshire-election-laws/

New Jersey:
Voter information: https://www.nj.gov/state/elections/vote.shtml

Registration: https://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/voter-registration.shtml

New Mexico:
https://www.sos.state.nm.us/voting-and-elections/voter-information-portal/

New York:
https://www.elections.ny.gov/

North Carolina:
State board of elections: https://www.ncsbe.gov

Check voter registration: https://vt.ncsbe.gov/RegLkup/

North Dakota:
https://vip.sos.nd.gov/PortalList.aspx

Ohio:
https://www.ohiosos.gov/elections/voters/

Oklahoma:
https://www.ok.gov/elections/

Oregon:
https://sos.oregon.gov/voting-elections/Pages/default.aspx

Pennsylvania:
Voter information: https://www.pa.gov/guides/voting-and-elections/

There’s also this site, which claims to be official but is a .com, which I find odd for a government website: https://www.votespa.com/Pages/default.aspx

Rhode Island:
https://vote.sos.ri.gov/

South Carolina:
https://scvotes.gov/

https://info.scvotes.sc.gov/Eng/VoterInquiry/VoterInformation.aspx

South Dakota:
https://sdsos.gov/elections-voting/default.aspx

Tennessee:
https://sos.tn.gov/elections/voter-information

Texas:
https://www.sos.texas.gov/elections/laws/current-elections-information.shtml

Utah:
https://voteinfo.utah.gov/

Vermont:
https://sos.vermont.gov/elections/voters/registration.aspx

Virginia:
https://vote.elections.virginia.gov/VoterInformation

Washington:
https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/

West Virginia:
https://sos.wv.gov/elections/Pages/default.aspx

Specific page for registering to vote: https://ovr.sos.wv.gov/register/Landing

Wisconsin:
https://myvote.wi.gov/en-us/

Wyoming:
https://sos.wyo.gov/Elections/Default.aspx