Are You Ready?
Election Day is almost here. If you haven’t already voted, now is the time make final plans for casting your ballot next Tuesday, Nov. 3. We came up with a handy printable checklist for you to use yourself or send to a friend.
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Personal Checklist
☐ Confirm your voter registration. You can do this with a simple online search. In some states, you can still register on Election Day.
☐ Find your polling location. Verify the correct location for your address; it may differ from early-voting locations. ou can find a link to your Election Day polling location, located above your personalized voter guide at iVoterGuide.com.
☐ Confirm voting hours. Check the hours of your polling location, and plan for variables like traffic, long lines, and other unexpected delays. Worst-case scenario: If you’re in line before the polls close, you should still be able to vote. Voting hours also are listed above your personal voter guide at iVoterGuide.com.
☐ Bring the required ID. Check your state's voter identification rules and bring an accepted form of identification. If you arrive at a polling location and discover you’re not listed there, you can usually ask for a provisional ballot.
☐ Check your schedule. Life has a way of sneaking up on us. Check your calendar now and build ample time into your schedule.
☐ Consider accessibility. What’s important for you when it comes to wheelchair access, language assistance, audiovisual needs, or other accommodations? Generally, you are allowed to bring someone to help you as long as it’s not an employer or union representative.
☐ Plan transportation. Is there someone you could help with a ride? Consider reaching out! If you don’t drive and you’re not used to public transportation, now’s the time to think ahead. Schedule an Uber, a carpool, or an outing with a friend.
☐ Make a backup plan. Consider what you'll do if your ride falls through, traffic is heavy, or your child gets sick.
☐ Print your sample ballot. Use your favorite search engine to find your sample ballot online. It makes candidate research and voting so much easier!
☐ Complete candidate research. Visit iVoterGuide.com and enter your address to review our data-driven research for the races and ballot measures covered in your state. We also encourage you to do your own research—a MUST for the races and ballot measures iVoterGuide wasn’t able to cover for this election. (One simple idea for online research: Search a candidate’s name alongside an issue that’s important to you.)
☐ Fill out your sample ballot. After you prayerfully complete your research and sample ballot, put it in your purse or car so you’ll have it ready to take to the voting booth. Voting is simplified when you can reference your sample ballot.
☐ PRAY. Stay prayerful as you make plans, complete candidate research, cast your vote, and watch election returns.
Varying state laws and local election processes make the tabulation of votes a long process—with media often reporting both official, unofficial, and projected results. So, watch and pray on election night, knowing that it may take time to get final results.
In His mystery, the Lord wants us to ask Him for His kingdom to come on earth as it is in heaven. So we persist in imploring Him for justice, righteousness, goodness, courage, mercy, and truth to come to fruition through our election process.
Once we’ve done our part—voting and praying, we can surrender the results to God in perfect peace, confident that we have done our part.
