November 8, after all, is Election Day! We’ve pulled collectively some vital sources and articles for readers — and please add further ones within the feedback!
- Need assistance discovering your polling place? (Don’t overlook, your designated location can change.) Discover the place to vote by getting into your road tackle in Google’s built-in software.
- Enter your road tackle at Vote411 to get details about native races and candidates.
- Ballotpedia has particulars on how every state supplies break day for voting (or doesn’t).
- The ACLU explains train your voting rights, resist voter intimidation, and entry disability-related lodging and language help on the polls. For assistance on Election Day, name the non-partisan Election Safety Hotline at 1-866-OUR-VOTE.
- (Hopefully you received’t want this, however Georgetown Legislation’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Safety has created reality sheets for all 50 states explaining the legal guidelines barring unauthorized non-public militia teams — and what to do if teams of armed people are close to a polling place.)
- NPR lists the locations the place abortion is on the poll (in a method or one other) this 12 months.
- Listed here are the NYT’s Reside Updates on the election and their information on when to anticipate outcomes.
- FiveThirtyEight has an interactive software that permits you to choose the winner of every race to see the impact on the location’s election forecast for the Home and Senate.
- Bloomberg put collectively a enjoyable quiz referred to as “Check Your Capacity to Decide Out a Democrat From a Republican Based mostly on Their Marketing campaign Logos.” (I solely received 7 out of 13.)
Additionally, on the “attention-grabbing to know however not important” aspect of issues, listed below are a number of attention-grabbing sources from Rutgers’ Heart for American Ladies and Politics: (1) girl vs. girl congressional and gubernatorial races, (2) potential milestones and firsts for girls working for congressional and statewide elective government places of work, e.g., no state has ever had ladies serving as each governor and lieutenant governor directly, however that would change this 12 months!), and (3) ladies as proportion of major-party candidates and nominees.
Blissful Voting!
