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WHERE, WHEN, HOW TO VOTE

How to Vote

When you arrive at the polling place, you will be asked for your voter registration card. (For other acceptable forms of identification, see the section called “Need I.D.?”) The election official will ask if you have moved and then ask you to sign the list of people who have voted in the precinct.

Depending on the type of election - local, statewide, national, or combination - you will be handed:

  1. A paper ballot on which you will select your choices and which will be counted by hand;
  2. A paper ballot on which you will select your choices by darkening an oval or arrow directly or "marking" with the aid of a voting machine; or
  3. A slip of paper with a numerical access code or, in some counties, a ballot activator card. In the next available voting booth, enter your code or card and let the on-screen instructions guide you through the process of electronic voting.

Easy, right? For a complete list of what you can bring into the voting booth and the type of help you can ask for, please refer to our section "Hey, you have rights."