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John Lewis gave his all to gain voting rights. Through November 3rd, 2020, I will include the reliable links (below) to voting information. We know now, ever more acutely, solutions to many, many, deep down, life-changing problems are needed. The remedy lies in a ballot box. Each vote is a vaccine.
ELECTION INFORMATION from League of Women Voters Education Fund
See the candidates and issues on your ballot anywhere in the US, the office function, the candidates, each ones' answers to their background, why they're running, and their answers to questions on current issues. There's a side-by-side, visual comparison of candidates tool. Each ballot issue is there, stated in succinct, plain-English summaries with both Pro's and Con's supporter views on each one. While you're reviewing the candidates and issues, the interactive lets you check choices, print the list out, or email or text it to yourself so you'll have your own personalized, informed list--no matter your political affiliations! Plus...
*Check Your Voter Registration
*Register to Vote
*Find Your Polling Place
*Discover Upcoming Debates in Your Area
U.S. ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION
For assistance, accessibility.
Election Official Directory & State Voting Requirements & Information
If the United States Postal Service is unable to overcome its recent cutbacks and restrictions, this is where to find your district's Election Board office address so you can hand-carry your mail-in/absentee ballot to the office or designated drop boxes to avoid the virus and make sure your vote is counted on time. [Most] ballot deliveries must be done in person; no proxies. Call them for the current status. (In PA, lawsuits were brought in June to block our drop boxes--a stay by the court blocked the maneuver, more lawsuits, outcome pending.)
See the candidates and issues on your ballot anywhere in the US, the office function, the candidates, each ones' answers to their background, why they're running, and their answers to questions on current issues. There's a side-by-side, visual comparison of candidates tool. Each ballot issue is there, stated in succinct, plain-English summaries with both Pro's and Con's supporter views on each one. While you're reviewing the candidates and issues, the interactive lets you check choices, print the list out, or email or text it to yourself so you'll have your own personalized, informed list--no matter your political affiliations! Plus...
*Check Your Voter Registration
*Register to Vote
*Find Your Polling Place
*Discover Upcoming Debates in Your Area
U.S. ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION
For assistance, accessibility.
Election Official Directory & State Voting Requirements & Information
If the United States Postal Service is unable to overcome its recent cutbacks and restrictions, this is where to find your district's Election Board office address so you can hand-carry your mail-in/absentee ballot to the office or designated drop boxes to avoid the virus and make sure your vote is counted on time. [Most] ballot deliveries must be done in person; no proxies. Call them for the current status. (In PA, lawsuits were brought in June to block our drop boxes--a stay by the court blocked the maneuver, more lawsuits, outcome pending.)
9-4-2020 update: Here's where to hand-carry your ballot in Montgomery County, PA: Voter Services, 1 Montgomery Plaza, 425 Swede St, STE 602, Norristown, PA, 19401
9-16-2020 update: The Philadelphia Inquirer headline on pg B8 today--"Mailed Votes Can't be Tossed Over Signature" per new guidance from the Pennsylvania Department of State.
The next two links repeat what is also available in LWV's vote411.org. But I'll include them anyway.
https://www.vote.org/am-i-registered-to-vote/
To see if you are registered.
https://www.vote.org/absentee-ballot/
To get your absentee ballot.
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I voted in 1960 for the first time. I was 21 years old--then, voting age in Missouri. I can scarcely believe that 60 years later, for the first time, I'm experiencing direct efforts to impede my vote or make it too difficult or health-threatening for me to cast. It's shocking. It's personal. What is happening to us?
A shoutout to my Black friends and family, citizens of color, LGBTQs, women, special needs persons, sisters and brothers who've lived the degradations and ravages of discrimination: That my ballot might not be counted is my own small taste of what you have felt and are feeling about voting--and feel on much larger scales plenty of other misbegotten travesties endured over great blocks of your lives and our national history. Votes count. Votes matter! You count! You Matter!
Be strong! We can get to a better place together!
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While we get this voting done, I'll close with a reminder of fall's approach...
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