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Today is election day in Wisconsin for state and local offices.

(You may have heard about the race for Wisconsin Supreme Court.)

Polls are open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Bring photo ID to verify your identity.

If you need to register before voting, bring proof of current address too.

One-stop site for voting info is MyVote Wisconsin: https://myvote.wi.gov/en-us/

gingicat

I thought folks here might be interested in this article about the early voting ballot process. There's a video to go with it.

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/what-happens-to-mail-in-early-ballot-before-election-day/

What happens to early voting and mail-in ballots before Election Day in Massachusetts?
By Kristina Rex
Updated on: October 30, 2024 / 7:54 AM EDT / CBS Boston
( text of article below )

I found this to be very interesting! In past years the early and mail-in ballots have been brought to the relevant precinct by a police officer to be processed by the warden and clerk; this is certainly more efficient and probably more secure.

Current Mood: hopeful

gingicat

I was looking for a reasonable simple text summary for my 19-year-old, and found this:
https://cspa.tufts.edu/2024-ballot-questions

Seems reasonably unbiased (much more so than the official voter booklet) and is definitely easier to understand.

sathari

It's National Voter Registration Day! To honor the day, here are a grab-bag of links to sites where you can check your voter registration and/or register to vote:

Change.TurboVote.org

Common Cause

Healthcare Voter

National Voter Registration Day

I Will Vote

Human Rights Campaign

And, yes, I know these all pretty much do the same thing, but this way if one site is down, or if you want to give traffic to a particular organization, or if you're working a voter registration drive with a specific theme or group attached, you can pick the one or ones that work best for your needs. (Mods, do we need a "2024 election" tag?)

sathari

TurboVote is something of a one-stop resource for election information: on the page I've linked ,you can sign up for election reminders and also get help with registering to vote. (I've been meaning to make a post about this for a while but I put it off until I'd had a chance to see for myself if the reminders worked--- and they do; I got one for the primary in my state.)

sathari

I wanted to follow up on a couple of my semi-recent posts:

First, here's more on the Ohio special election that I posted about previously: the state supreme court is letting the Ohio GOP go ahead with the special election in August. This is the one about making ballot initiatives harder to pass, so of course they've hidden it in a special election at an unusual time of the year. The election is August 8th. The following are links I've found to how eligible voters can register to vote in Ohio:
This appears to the be "main" voter registration page.
If you want to check your registration status or look up your voting precinct and the location of your polling place, go here.
You can register to vote or update your voter information online here.

And here's more on the work done by Hope Springs from Fields. (My previous post is here.) I'm specifically posting a followup because I think they have a new donation link, which can be found here.

Hope these are useful!

sathari

Republican lawmakers in the state of Ohio are playing a bit fast and loose with efforts to support redistricting reform and abortion rights: they have passed an amendment to the state's constitution to make it harder for voters to ETA: ~~put reforms/initiatives/measures of any kind~~ pass constitutional amendments (like one that's being considered to make abortion a right in their state constitution) /ETA, and they are hiding it in a special election on August 8th, where they hope voter turnout will be low to begin with. Here's a nice explanation from dailykos. And you may remember the Hope Springs from Fields folks from a previous post of mine, but they're kicking off canvassing for the 2024 election cycle in Ohio, which may also be relevant to the August election.

(FYI, there's currently no state tag for Ohio, or I would have used it here.)

sathari

A useful link for voters registered in the state of Georgia; I don't know how much some of this will vary by county, but here is the link from the statewide website:

https://georgia.gov/election-2022

In particular, early voting begins November 28th, which is also the last day to request an absentee ballot. Also, it appears that in at least some if not all counties, the polling place you use if you're voting early is different from the one you'll use if you vote on election day--- it looks like counties have a few "hub" locations that are open for early voting, and then on Election Day proper (including for runoff elections like this one) you have to go to your assigned polling place (probably listed on your voter registration card).

Here is also an article from an Atlanta news station on voting in the runoff. https://www.11alive.com/article/news/politics/elections/georgia-senate-runoff-timeline-raphael-warnock-herschel-walker/85-acc7bf55-9178-4a72-a1ab-55e2a23b8224 (For some reason, DW doesn't want to let me turn this one into a link. Also, at the time I looked up this article, it had a "Breaking" banner headline about a judge overturning the state's abortion ban, so how's that for a little surprise good news!)

Current Mood: determined

gingicat

All are welcome, and you can take the 95 bus from the Red Line to get there. For the ones at City Hall, you can also take the 96. I've attended elections inspector and clerk trainings held by Sandy, she's very thorough.

https://patch.com/massachusetts/medford/medford-hosting-voter-education-workshop-series-may
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sathari

rydra_wong has a very useful post for USians about how to respond to things going pear-shaped after the election here at this link..

tanaqui

In the spirit of "hope for the best but plan for the worst", Indivisible and Stand Up America are building a coalition of voters ready to mobilize if Donald Trump refuses to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election.

We will demand that every vote be counted, even if it takes days or weeks to get an accurate count from critical states, especially given the expansion of mail-in and absentee voting during the COVID-19 pandemic. We will organize to ensure that the loser concedes, and that Congress, the Electoral College, and state officials honor the accurate, final vote count.

https://protecttheresults.com/

chestnut_pod

Action Network has a body called the Ballot Chase & Cure Team, which, basically, contacts voters whose mail-in ballots have been rejected either via phone or text (that's the chase) to inform them of what’s needed to fix it (that's the cure), and setting up appointments for them to meet with local campaign volunteers to sign affidavits. The timing expectation is that the Chase & Cure phase will start shortly after people start mailing in their ballot in October.

Personally, this feels less nerve-wracking to me than anything having to do with cold calling, since you are calling for a specific reason with a specific fix, and it will be very directly impactful (one hopes).

You can join: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/join-the-ballot-chase-cure-team

Thanks!

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.)

( Read more... )

Current Mood: productive

tanaqui

The DNC is running online training sessions for friend-to-friend organizing:

Friend-to-friend organizing is one of the most effective methods there are for turning out voters. Join us to learn how to get started organizing your friends and family and learn how to use the campaigns organizing app: Vote Joe.

Sign up for the training here

You can read more about how you can use the app, especialy for virtual canvassing, and where to download it in this Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeBiden/comments/i4rhpw/virtual_canvassing_how_to_use_the_vote_joe_app_to/

Finally, there's a need for more poll workers as many people who have staffed polling places in the past aren't doing so this year because they're in high-risk categories for Covid-19. Recruiting new people who are younger and healthier will help keep as many polling places as possible open and minimise the length of lines. You can sign up at: https://www.powerthepolls.org/?source=go

redbird

If you voted by mail in Massachusetts, you can check whether the state has received your ballot at https://www.sec.state.ma.us/wheredoivotema/track/trackmyballot.aspx

Mine shows as "accepted" and that it arrived on August 17 (they sent it to me on the 10th).

(I found this while wondering how to use the in-person early voting if I had asked for and been sent a postal ballot.)

tanaqui

Election workers are an essential component of every polling location on Election Day.

It's a job that's often done by older people, who this year may be trying to avoid situations where they come into contact with lots of strangers (something that may also be the case for you, of course). That means election authorities will probably need more first-time poll workers than usual. The roles are generally paid in some way (although how that happens and how much they pay varies a lot).

If you're interested, the team at Ms, Magazine have put together a list of the most specific information they could find on how to begin the poll worker application process:

https://msmagazine.com/pollworker/

tanaqui

A quick guide to the 2020 deadlines to request a vote-by-mail ballot in each state (and which states require an excuse):

https://mobile.twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1288149277861195787

And information on becoming a poll worker:

https://www.eac.gov/voters/become-poll-worker

redbird

The governor just signed a bill that makes everyone eligible to vote by mail, and requires the state government to send out applications for mail-in ballots to all registered voters. The applications are supposed to be mailed by July 15, which suggests to me that if you're a Massachusetts voter and don't get one by the 22nd, you should check that you're still registered.

It's not clear from the article I read how long those applications apply: it might be necessary to send in the separate application for voting by mail in the general election in November. (The secretary of state is also required to send those applications to go to all Massachusetts voters.)

Added If you have already requested an absentee ballot for these elections, that's sufficient, and they won't be sending you another application.

Also, for now this only covers the 2020 primary and general elections.

tanaqui

Spring elections and primaries are going ahead in Wisconsin today despite the difficulties created by COVID-19 and efforts by the governor to postpone in-person voting.

Polls are open until 8pm and the Wisconsin Democratic Party has put up a guide to where to find curbside voting and ballot drop-off, along with in-person voting locations where still available.

https://wisdems.org/voter-information-page/curbside-voting-information/

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bibliofile - Wisconsin elections today (4/1)
gingicat - Early voting & mail-in ballot process (Massachusetts)
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sathari - Follow-up: Ohio August Elections and Hope Springs from Fields
sathari - Ohio Special Election and 2024 Senate Race
sathari - For Georgia voters: Runoff information
gingicat - Boston-area voter workshop
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tanaqui - Action: Organizing to protect the results of the 2020 Election
chestnut_pod - Action opportunity: Chase and Cure
sathari - Voting and election websites by US state
tanaqui - Election Resources
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Entries tagged with voting

Wisconsin elections today (4/1)

Early voting & mail-in ballot process (Massachusetts)

Massachusetts ballot questions

National (US) Voter Registration Day!

TurboVote

Follow-up: Ohio August Elections and Hope Springs from Fields

Ohio Special Election and 2024 Senate Race

For Georgia voters: Runoff information

Boston-area voter workshop

Signal boost!

Action: Organizing to protect the results of the 2020 Election

Action opportunity: Chase and Cure

Voting and election websites by US state

Election Resources

tracking your Massacbusetts mail-in ballot

How to Become a Poll Worker, State by State

2020 Election Resources

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