Your ballot. Your hands.
The likeliest way to lose your vote this year is quieter than anything in the news: a registration that got cancelled, a document your state started asking for, a ballot that reached the office too late to fix. You can check all three today. Sometime in October each one stops being fixable.
Check your registration Find your early voting dates
Takes about a minute. It is the step that decides whether the rest of this matters.
62 days until Election Day, Tuesday, November 3. Early voting dates are different in every state, and vote.gov has yours.
Section B
The president signed an order last March that changes how mail ballots get delivered and who is allowed to receive one. A federal judge in Boston blocked it twice. Both blocks came off in the last week of August: the Supreme Court lifted one on August 24, and the judge herself lifted the other two days later. The Postal Service had written a rule to carry the order out, and for about a day nothing stood against it. On August 27 the same judge barred the Postal Service from enforcing that rule, so no state can be forced to comply with it for any election held on or before November 3. Mail voting is legal in every state today and your ballot should still come. The August 27 order lasts fourteen days and runs out about September 10, and a hearing on extending it through November is set for September 3. The first mail ballots of this election go out on September 4, in North Carolina, so vote early enough that it does not matter which way this goes.
There are two orders. The first was signed in March 2025 and went after mail ballots that arrive after Election Day; the second, Executive Order 14399, was signed on March 31, 2026 and is the one in court. One federal judge in Boston blocked its key pieces twice, first on June 25 in a ruling covering 23 states and D.C., then with a nationwide injunction on August 11 that barred the Postal Service from restricting absentee voting. An injunction is a court order telling the government not to do the thing while the case runs. On June 29 the Supreme Court separately upheld, 5 to 4, state laws that count mail ballots postmarked by Election Day and received after it, in a case called Watson v. Republican National Committee.
On July 27 the administration asked the Supreme Court to let the restrictions take effect for this election anyway. The Postal Service’s rule carrying out the order took effect on August 21 and was printed in the Federal Register five days later. On August 24 the Court granted that request in part: it lifted the June 25 injunction, the one covering the 23 states and D.C., ruling only that those states had sued before any rule existed to injure them and saying expressly that this does not make what the government does next lawful. Two days after that the same judge lifted her own August 11 injunction, which left nothing standing against the finished rule. States and voting rights groups sued over the rule itself within hours, and on August 27 she granted a fourteen-day restraining order that stops the Postal Service from enforcing it for any election held on or before November 3. The Justice Department filed its appeal on August 28, she refused to pause her own order on August 31, and the government asked the federal appeals court in Boston to lift it the same day. That court has not ruled, and nothing new has been filed at the Supreme Court since August 24. Election lawyers on both sides of the case doubt the order could actually be run for November, because the machinery it asks states and the Postal Service to build does not exist yet.
Checked Mail voting is legal in every state today. On August 24 the Supreme Court lifted one of the two court orders blocking the president's mail ballot restrictions, ruling only that the states had sued too early, and on August 26 the Boston judge who had issued both lifted the other. On August 27 she barred the Postal Service from enforcing the rule it wrote to carry those restrictions out, so no state can be forced to comply with it for any election held on or before November 3. Her order lasts fourteen days and runs out about September 10. The government has asked the appeals court in Boston to lift it sooner, and a hearing on extending it through November is set for September 3. Where the case is, with the docket links.
So look up your early voting site this week and put a day on the calendar.
Section C
Every card is a verbatim quote, a signed action, or a court ruling, with a date and a link to the source. These run first; the other 40 are one tap down, and all 50 are listed with their sources.
Said
Campaigning at a Christian conservative summit in Florida, three months before the 2024 election:
you don't have to vote again
“I love you Christians and I'm a Christian. I love you, you got to get out and vote. In four years, you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good, you're not going to have to vote.”
Said the ban
In a post about the 2020 election, naming what he wants changed before the midterms:
No mail-in or "Early" Voting
“What's worse, the NBA Players cheating at cards, and probably much else, or the Democrats cheating on Elections. The 2020 Presidential Election, being Rigged and Stolen, is a far bigger SCANDAL. Look what happened to our Country when a Crooked Moron became our "President!" We now know everything. I hope the DOJ pursues this with as much "gusto" as befitting the biggest SCANDAL in American history! If not, it will happen again, including the upcoming Midterms. No mail-in or "Early" Voting, Yes to Voter ID! Watch how totally dishonest the California Prop Vote is! Millions of Ballots being "shipped." GET SMART REPUBLICANS, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!!!”
Source: Trump's Truth (Truth Social archive) Archived copy See the reversal
Said the reversal
Thirty days after posting that there should be no early voting, urging Tennessee voters to vote early in a special election:
the last day to vote early in person
“I am asking all America First Patriots in Tennessee's 7th Congressional District, who haven't voted yet, to please GET OUT AND VOTE for MAGA Warrior Matt Van Epps, tomorrow, November 26th, the last day to vote early in person. You can win this Election for Matt! PLEASE VOTE FOR MATT VAN EPPS, who has my Complete and Total Endorsement. Polls close at 12 P.M. NOON in most of TN-07, and every vote counts. IF YOU ARE IN LINE BY 12 P.M., STAY IN LINE, AND THEY MUST LET YOU VOTE! TN-07: Early Voting ends November 26th, and Election Day is December 2nd. GET OUT AND VOTE FOR MATT VAN EPPS — HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!”
Source: Trump's Truth (Truth Social archive) Archived copy See the ban
Said
Bannon ran the 2016 campaign and now hosts a podcast. He holds no government job:
ICE surround the polls come November
“You're damn right we're gonna have ICE surround the polls come November.”
Action
The second elections order, seven months before the midterms. This is the one the court blocked:
Second elections order signed
Trump signed Executive Order 14399, "Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections," directing the U.S. Postal Service to deliver mail ballots only to voters on state-provided lists and to create unique ballot-envelope identifiers, and directing the Department of Homeland Security to compile state-by-state lists of adult citizens from federal databases.
Ruling
Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia sued over the March order. A federal judge in Boston ruled:
Court: order is legally void
The court granted summary judgment to 23 states and the District of Columbia, declared Sections 2 and 3 of Executive Order 14399 "legally void as they are ultra vires and unconstitutionally violate the separation of powers," and permanently enjoined federal agencies, other than the President, from implementing or giving effect to those sections in the plaintiff states for the November 3, 2026 election or any earlier federal election.
Source: Supreme Court of the United States (appendix to stay application 26A124) Archived copy
Said
The host had just told him he could declare a national security emergency over elections and impose photo ID, proof of citizenship and mail-ballot limits without the Senate. Asked whether he would:
stranger things have happened
“Let me just say that stranger things have happened, okay? I'll leave it at that.”
Action
Three weeks after asking the Supreme Court to let restrictions on mail ballots take effect:
He voted by mail
Trump cast a mail ballot in Florida's Republican primary, according to Palm Beach County records; the White House said his circumstances differ from most voters' because he primarily lives at the White House.
Action
Ten days after a federal court blocked the Postal Service from restricting mail ballots nationwide:
Final mail-ballot rule published anyway
The Postal Service posted the text of its final rule implementing the president's March executive order on federal elections. It would require states to hand voter data to the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies and to adopt new ballot-envelope standards before USPS delivers their mail ballots; states that do not comply would have their ballots refused. The rule acknowledges that injunctions issued by a federal court in Massachusetts currently bar it from taking effect, and states that the Postal Service is ready to implement it immediately if those injunctions are lifted.
Ruling
Three days after the Supreme Court lifted her June order, the judge barred the Postal Service from enforcing its finished rule:
overwhelming risk of pervasive disenfranchisement
The record continues to lack any evidence regarding fraudulent absentee or mail-in voting. ... In any event, the USPS's interest in correcting an unsubstantiated problem through likely unconstitutional means is dwarfed by the overwhelming risk of pervasive disenfranchisement of citizens who need access to mail ballots in order to vote.
Source: Wisconsin Department of Justice (copy of the signed order)
Said
The day before his inauguration, thanking Elon Musk for campaigning in Pennsylvania:
all those computers, those vote counting computers
“And he knows those computers better than anybody, all those computers, those vote counting computers. And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like, in a landslide, so it was pretty good, it was pretty good. So, thank you to Elon.”
Action
Two months into the term, the first of two executive orders on how elections are run:
First elections order signed
Signed Executive Order 14248, "Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections," which directs the Attorney General to take action against states that include absentee or mail-in ballots received after Election Day in their final tabulation, and directs the Election Assistance Commission to condition federal election funding on states adopting an Election Day ballot receipt deadline for all methods of voting.
Said
In the memorandum revoking the security clearance of the federal cybersecurity chief who called 2020 secure:
the 2020 election was rigged and stolen
“Krebs, through CISA, falsely and baselessly denied that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen, including by inappropriately and categorically dismissing widespread election malfeasance and serious vulnerabilities with voting machines.”
Said
Telling the president's Cabinet that her office was investigating election integrity:
manipulate the results of the votes being cast
“We have evidence of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time and vulnerable to exploitation to manipulate the results of the votes being cast…”
Source: Sens. Mark Warner and Alex Padilla, letter to DNI Gabbard Archived copy
Said
On Fox News hours after meeting Vladimir Putin in Alaska, repeating what he says Putin told him:
Your election was rigged because you have
“You know Vladimir Putin said something one of the most interesting things. He said, "Your election was rigged because you have mail in voting." He said, "Mail-in voting, every election." He said, "No country has mail-in voting. It's impossible to have mail-in voting and have honest elections."”
Source: CQ Factbase transcript (Senate Democratic Leadership) Archived copy
Said
From the post announcing he would sign an executive order to end mail voting before the 2026 midterms:
the States are merely an "agent"
“I am going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, and also, while we're at it, Highly "Inaccurate," Very Expensive, and Seriously Controversial VOTING MACHINES, which cost Ten Times more than accurate and sophisticated Watermark Paper, which is faster, and leaves NO DOUBT, at the end of the evening, as to who WON, and who LOST, the Election. We are now the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting. All others gave it up because of the MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD ENCOUNTERED. WE WILL BEGIN THIS EFFORT, WHICH WILL BE STRONGLY OPPOSED BY THE DEMOCRATS BECAUSE THEY CHEAT AT LEVELS NEVER SEEN BEFORE, by signing an EXECUTIVE ORDER to help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections. Remember, the States are merely an "agent" for the Federal Government in counting and tabulating the votes. They must do what the Federal Government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them, FOR THE GOOD OF OUR COUNTRY, to do. With their HORRIBLE Radical Left policies, like Open Borders, Men Playing in Women's Sports, Transgender and "WOKE" for everyone, and so much more, Democrats are virtually Unelectable without using this completely disproven Mail-In SCAM. ELECTIONS CAN NEVER BE HONEST WITH MAIL IN BALLOTS/VOTING, and everybody, IN PARTICULAR THE DEMOCRATS, KNOWS THIS. I, AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, WILL FIGHT LIKE HELL TO BRING HONESTY AND INTEGRITY BACK TO OUR ELECTIONS. THE MAIL-IN BALLOT HOAX, USING VOTING MACHINES THAT ARE A COMPLETE AND TOTAL DISASTER, MUST END, NOW!!! REMEMBER, WITHOUT FAIR AND HONEST ELECTIONS, AND STRONG AND POWERFUL BORDERS, YOU DON'T HAVE EVEN A SEMBLANCE OF A COUNTRY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!! DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA”
Said
Taking questions in the Oval Office the same day, beside the president of Ukraine:
you can never have a real democracy
“Mail-in ballots are corrupt. Mail-in ballots, you can never have a real democracy with mail-in ballots.”
Said
Later in that same exchange, on why he wants Republicans to end mail voting:
not going to have many Democrats get elected
“Now we got to stop mail in voting and the Republicans have to lead the charge. The Democrats want it because they have horrible policy. If you have mail in voting, you're not going to have many Democrats get elected. That's bigger than anything having to do with redistricting, believe me, and the Republicans have to get smart.”
Source: CQ Factbase transcript (Senate Democratic Leadership) Archived copy
Said
Two days after that, on what he believes ending mail voting is worth:
100 additional seats will go to Republicans
“END MAIL-IN VOTING, AND GO TO PAPER BALLOTS. 100 additional seats will go to Republicans!!!”
Said
Posted while California was voting on Proposition 50, a redistricting measure he opposed:
is under very serious legal and criminal review
“The Unconstitutional Redistricting Vote in California is a GIANT SCAM in that the entire process, in particular the Voting itself, is RIGGED. All "Mail-In" Ballots, where the Republicans in that State are "Shut Out," is under very serious legal and criminal review. STAY TUNED!”
Said
At the White House briefing that same afternoon:
California with their universal mail-in voting system
“The White House is working on an executive order to strengthen our elections in this country and to ensure that there cannot be blatant fraud, as we've seen in California with their universal mail-in voting system.”
Source: Reuters (via U.S. News & World Report) Archived copy
Action
More than five years after Fulton County, Georgia certified its 2020 results:
FBI seizes Fulton County ballots
FBI agents executed a search warrant at the Fulton County, Georgia, elections warehouse and seized hundreds of boxes containing the county's original 2020 ballots, tabulator tapes and voter rolls; Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was photographed at the scene.
Action
ODNI is the office that oversees the CIA and the other intelligence agencies. Elections are not normally its work:
Spy agency takes voting machines
ODNI confirmed that it had obtained an unspecified number of Puerto Rico's voting machines, along with copies of data from those machines, and tested them; the office said the probe found security and deployment practices it called a risk to U.S. elections, and reporting found it produced no clear evidence of the foreign interference it was said to be examining.
Said
Asked at a briefing whether ICE agents would be at polling places in November:
can't guarantee an ICE agent won't
“I can't guarantee an ICE agent won't be around a polling location in November—I mean, that's frankly a very silly hypothetical question.”
Said
Reposting a summary of his own call to abolish mail-in voting nationwide except for overseas troops and serious medical conditions:
Critical to avoid fraud
“Critical to avoid fraud.”
Said
Reposting a claim that Pennsylvania's 2020 mail ballots were used "to steal the 2020 election":
Essential to stop fraud in elections
“Essential to stop fraud in elections.”
Said
Answering California's secretary of state on a call with state election officials, three weeks after the White House said it could not rule it out:
There will be no ICE presence
“Any suggestion that ICE is going to be present at polling places is simply disinformation. There will be no ICE presence at polling locations for this election.”
Said
The Attorney General, the day her department sued five more states for their voter rolls:
well-maintained voter rolls are a requisite
“Accurate, well-maintained voter rolls are a requisite for the election integrity that the American people deserve. This latest series of litigation underscores that This Department of Justice is fulfilling its duty to ensure transparency, voter roll maintenance, and secure elections across the country.”
Said
Announcing Justice Department lawsuits against five more states that had not turned over their voter rolls:
We will not be deterred
“The Justice Department will continue to fulfill its oversight role dutifully, neutrally, and transparently wherever Americans vote in federal elections. Many state election officials, however, are choosing to fight us in court rather than show their work. We will not be deterred, regardless of party affiliation, from carrying out critical election integrity legal duties.”
Said
Asked by Sen. Jon Ossoff when the President requested her presence at the Fulton County search, she answered "The day of the raid." Asked whether he telephoned her:
help oversee this warrant being executed
“I'm not going to disclose how the message was delivered, but it was a request from the President and his administration to go and help oversee this warrant being executed, along with the Deputy Director of the FBI, and to thank the FBI agents who were conducting this raid.”
Source: U.S. Senate (Sen. Jon Ossoff, transcript of his questioning)
Said
While signing it, to reporters at the White House:
you can't have, really, a nation
“We want to have honest voting in our country, because if you don't have honest voting, you can't have, really, a nation.”
Action
Seventeen months after the 2024 election, to the Michigan county that contains Detroit:
DOJ demands Detroit's 2024 ballots
In a letter signed by Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, the Justice Department demanded that Wayne County, Michigan, produce all ballots, receipts and envelopes from the 2024 general election within 14 days, warning that it could seek a court order if the county did not comply; the county replied that it does not hold those ballots, which are kept by its 43 local jurisdictions.
Said
Asked by Senator Gary Peters about the March executive order directing the Justice Department to work with Homeland Security and the Postal Service:
working with other agencies to implement
“It's working with other agencies within the administration to implement the goals, which I think are appropriate goals, to make sure that we have free and fair elections, to make sure that those are implemented, whether it's the DOJ that needs to implement them or some other federal agency.”
Said
On the Supreme Court decision that day upholding state laws that count mail ballots postmarked by Election Day:
decided to cave to the radical left
“Justice Roberts and Justice Barrett decided to cave to the radical left. It's Election Day, not election week, not election month, not election months.”
Action
Federal election monitors are normally sent to watch for civil rights violations at the polls:
Federal monitors sent to six states
The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division announced it would send election monitors to 15 jurisdictions in Arizona, Michigan, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire and Virginia during the 2026 primary season, with plans to expand for the general election; a group of senators later wrote that monitors were being deployed disproportionately to states with Democratic governors or Democratic chief election officials.
Source: U.S. Senate (Sen. Mark Warner press release) Archived copy
Said
Reposting a video by a losing Los Angeles mayoral candidate about mail ballots counted after Election Day:
California has legalized election fraud
“California has legalized election fraud”
Said
In a primetime address releasing documents he said proved interference in the 2020 election:
manufacture illegal ballots for Joe Biden
“Raw intelligence obtained by the FBI in 2020 yet buried by rogue bureaucrats stated that China's activities even included an attempt to manufacture illegal ballots for Joe Biden.”
Said
In the same address, describing what the SAVE America Act would do:
mail-in ballots are inherently corrupt
“And hopefully there will be no corrupt mail-in ballots, which, if you watched California and so many other places, mail-in ballots are inherently corrupt. So you would have no mail-in ballots except for illness, disability, military deployment, or travel.”
Said
Interrupting NBC's Garrett Haake as he noted the 2024 election is widely believed to have been secure:
Because it was too big to rig
“Because it was too big to rig. There were a massive amount of votes for this president, that's why he's in office.”
Action
After losing in the district court in June, the administration went over that court's head:
Administration appeals to the Supreme Court
The Solicitor General asked the Supreme Court to stay the district court's injunction and to grant an immediate administrative stay, arguing the challenge was premature and that there was not enough time to obtain ordinary appellate relief before the November election; twelve states led by Alabama filed a parallel application two days later.
Said
From the filing asking the Supreme Court to lift the block on the mail voting executive order:
merely sets forth general policy guidance
“The injunction is particularly remarkable because the Order merely sets forth general policy guidance, leaving substantial discretion to agencies about how to implement the Order while admonishing them that they may do so only consistent with applicable law.”
Ruling
A second suit, brought by the League of Women Voters. The same judge ruled:
Postal Service blocked nationwide
The court preliminarily enjoined the U.S. Postal Service and its governors from implementing, giving effect to, or enforcing Section 3 of Executive Order 14399 for the November 3, 2026 election or any earlier federal election, including refusing to transmit mail-in or absentee ballots; the injunction runs nationwide on behalf of the plaintiff organizations' members.
Source: Supreme Court of the United States (appendix to supplemental brief, No. 26A124) Archived copy
Said
There were 289 federal monitors at the 2022 midterms and 714 in 2024:
approximately 1,000 election monitors
“We will do it to the tune of approximately 1,000 election monitors in the November election.”
Said
Posted the night records showed he had returned a mail ballot in Florida's primary:
Less than 1% voted by mail
“Earlier this month, India's Chief Election Commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, asked our Administration — How can you have Elections in the U.S. without a valid Photo ID? India's last Election had 646,000,000 Voters! Less than 1% voted by mail, and every single Voter had to have a VALID Photo Identity Document. We need to pass THE SAVE AMERICA ACT, now!”
Action
The running count of the department's effort to obtain state voter files:
31 suits for voters' private data
The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division has filed 31 lawsuits seeking states' unredacted voter data; judges have blocked the requests in 23 of those cases and the department has not won any of them.
Action
Lifting one of the two court orders that had blocked the president's mail ballot rules, without deciding whether they are legal:
time will tell
The Court's disposition of this application does not mean that any measure taken by the Government to implement the Order will necessarily be lawful. On that score, time will tell. But the Order itself does not harm the States, so the District Court lacked jurisdiction to bar the Government from trying to implement it.
Ruling
Two weeks after the judge ordered the Postal Service to stop, she found it had not:
Defendants violated the preliminary injunction
[D]espite the Defendants' protestations that '[t]he United States takes its obligation to comply with court orders very seriously,' the court finds that Defendants violated the preliminary injunction in this case.
Action
From the Postal Service's final rule, on the day it was published:
will not take actions to implement
Given injunctions currently in place in State of California v. Trump, No. 26-cv-11581 (D. Mass. June 25, 2026), and League of Women Voters of Massachusetts v. Trump, No. 26-cv-11549 (D. Mass. Aug. 11, 2026), the Postal Service will not take actions to implement the rule specifically for the 2026 election unless and until the government obtains relief from those injunctions.
Ruling
Asked to pause her own order while the government appealed it, the judge refused:
Defendants' cynical interpretation
A Final Rule has now [been] issued and, contrary to Defendants' cynical interpretation, the Supreme Court has not endorsed the view that any challenge to the Final Rule is now too late.
Action
With a court order barring the Postal Service from making states use its new ballot portal, the agency switched on the records system behind that portal:
effective with this publication
The Postal Service published its response to comments on System of Records USPS 820.225, Federal Ballot Mail, stating that "the SOR is effective with this publication," the step the final rule had said would make the Federal Ballot Mail Portal active.
Section D
In order, with the official pages that carry your state's dates and rules.
01
If this comes back wrong, none of the other three matter, and almost nobody checks. It takes about a minute.
Check your registration statusYour state's registration deadline at vote.govStates that let you register on the spot
Registrations get cancelled for moving, for not voting recently, and this year for citizenship checks run against federal databases that were never built for it, which flag naturalized citizens at a much higher rate. Nobody calls to tell you. You find out at the table on Election Day, when it is too late to do anything about it. It is worth doing again in October even if it comes back clean today.
02
Voter ID rules changed in a lot of states over the last two years, and a few now want proof of citizenship for at least some voters. Look yours up once, now, and put whatever it asks for somewhere you will find it.
Look up your state's ID rules at vote.govHow provisional ballots work in your state
If you get to the polls and something is missing or your name is not on the list, ask for a provisional ballot rather than leaving. That is a real ballot they hold to one side and count once the office confirms you were registered, and you are entitled to one in every state but three.
03
A wrong polling place, a registration that did not take, or a signature the machine does not like can all be sorted out if there are still days on the clock. None of them can be fixed at 7pm on November 3.
Find your early voting dates and sites at vote.govLook up your polling place at vote.gov
Most states let you vote in person before Election Day, and vote.gov will hand you your state’s dates and sites. Some states open in September, some the week before Election Day, and a few do not offer early voting at all. Going early also puts your ballot in before the next court ruling, which can land without warning and in the middle of your state's early voting window. Pick a day you can actually keep.
04
Hand it in yourself at your county or town election office or an official drop site, and do it as early as your state allows.
Check your state's rules for returning it at vote.govHow your state handles mail ballots and fixing themRead the state by state table of who may return a ballot
Fill it in exactly the way the envelope tells you, because a missing signature or date is the most common reason a ballot gets set aside, and most states will let you fix that if they can reach you in time. Give them a phone number and an email when you request it, so they can. If somebody else is going to carry it for you, check your state first, because most states limit that to a family member, a household member, or a caregiver. Seventeen states let you name anyone you choose. A few states, Alabama among them, allow only the voter.
Each of these is run by a government office, by the state election officials themselves, or by the legislatures’ own research staff, so the dates and the rules on them are the real ones.
Three different answers about ICE at the polls inside four weeks, and the reassuring one cites a policy that was rescinded in January 2025. None of it is a reason to stay home.
Two free hotlines, staffed by trained volunteers who answer questions about voting and take reports of trouble at the polls. 866-OUR-VOTE (866-687-8683) in English, 888-VE-Y-VOTA (888-839-8682) in Spanish. Call or text, before the day or standing in the line.
On February 3 Steve Bannon said ICE would surround the polls in November. Two days later the White House press secretary, asked directly, said she could not guarantee an ICE agent would not be near a polling location. Three weeks after that a Homeland Security official told state election officials that any suggestion of ICE at polling places was disinformation, and pointed to the department’s protected areas policy. That policy was rescinded on January 20, 2025, and a federal court declined to restore it on May 6, 2026.
Federal law has barred armed agents from places where an election is held since 1865, and intimidating a voter is a crime under federal and state law. That is the reason to report what you see. It is not a promise about what will happen. This administration published a postal rule ten days after a federal court blocked it, and that card is on this page.
Here is a message you can send as it is; copy it out and change whatever does not sound like you.
Check the registration today, while there is still time to fix it if something is wrong. Then pick a day you can keep, and if a mail ballot is already sitting in your house, carry it in yourself.
Section E
In most states early voting opens sometime in October, and the exact day is different everywhere. Open your state below; the first line is its early voting dates.
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The state's own election pageLook up your registration and your polling place
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The state's own election pageLook up your registration and your polling place
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The state's own election pageLook up your registration and your polling place
From NCSL, confirm locally
The state's own election pageLook up your registration and your polling place
Confirmed on the state's site
The state's own election pageLook up your registration and your polling place
Confirmed on the state's site
The state's own election pageLook up your registration and your polling place
Confirmed on the state's site
The state's own election pageLook up your registration and your polling place
Confirmed on the state's site
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The state's own election pageLook up your registration and your polling place
Confirmed on the state's site
The state's own election pageLook up your registration and your polling place
Confirmed on the state's site
The state's own election pageLook up your registration and your polling place
Confirmed on the state's site
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The state's own election pageLook up your registration and your polling place
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The state's own election pageLook up your registration and your polling place
Confirmed on the state's site
The state's own election pageLook up your registration and your polling place
Confirmed on the state's site
The state's own election pageLook up your registration and your polling place
Confirmed on the state's site
The state's own election pageLook up your registration and your polling place
Confirmed on the state's site
The state's own election pageLook up your registration and your polling place
Confirmed on the state's site
The state's own election pageLook up your registration and your polling place
From NCSL, confirm locally
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The state's own election pageLook up your registration and your polling place
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Section F
This site does not match anybody with anybody; these are the programs that already do it.
The groups below work nationally. The list is short because a program with no working 2026 page does not go on it, and most rides to the polls get organized county by county. If nothing here reaches you, your county election office or a local library can usually tell you who is driving this year.
Not yet confirmed for 2026
Many transit agencies run free fares on Election Day; check yours.
If you have a car and a free afternoon, these programs take driver signups directly; you drive the person and they carry their own ballot in.
Not yet confirmed for 2026
This site collects nothing about you and never asks for a name or an email.
vote.gov has your registration status, your state's early voting dates, your assigned polling place, and the rule for who is allowed to return a mail ballot where you live.