Here are the ten steps of a plan to vote. I encourage you to think through this and to pass it along to others. If a significant portion of voters decide to make a plan, we will end up with better turnout and better election results.
Here are the ten steps:
- Check your Voter Registration at www.CheckYourVoterRegistration.com. Make sure all the details are correct and fix what has to be fixed.
- Visit your state election website and find the information for your county and voting district. Verify your regular polling place.
- Find out on that same site when early voting begins in your state and county, and where the polling place for you would be for early voting. (It may not be the same as your usual polling place.)
- Mark your calendar to vote as soon as possible after early voting begins. Choose the day on which you will vote.
- If circumstances require you to use an absentee ballot, find out from your state election website or your local board of elections when and how they are available, arrange to get yours, and decide what date you’re going to fill it out.
- If you will vote in person, figure out what time of day you will go and how you will get there.
- Have a Plan B in case something happens that day with sickness, weather, car trouble, mechanical problems at the polling place, etc. Decide in advance what alternate day you will be able to go vote.
- Determine if there are others who can come with you.
- Find your ballot in order to see exactly what it will look like. Study it carefully. Use your state election website, or use Ballotpedia.org, or use iVoterGuide.com. Research each candidate and ballot initiative.
- Find out from your state election website or your local board of elections how you can track your ballot once it is cast.
Friends, it’s not just that every vote counts; it’s that every ballot counts. Consider becoming a poll watcher. Contact your local Republican Party office about this. You can also apply to be a poll worker. Ask your Board of Elections about that.