On Voting (Even if You Already Have)
Part 2
We’re less than 48 hours out from Election Day, so Part 2 of my voting-related content is quick and dirty. This information is provided first, but I hope you will read the extra bit at the end, as well.
To get general information on voting, registration, and polling locations in your state, vote.gov can get you where you need to go. Here is my August newsletter that goes into more depth about using the website.
Some supplementary resources:
In the paid newsletter last week, I went over vote.gov again, as well as the voting and elections information page on usa.gov. Both of these explanations were provided before the paywall, so anyone can access them.
Behind the paywall, I synthesized some information about additional resources to learn about election safety and the history of voting:
EAC.gov, the website for the United States Election Assistance Commission
Educational material from the Library of Congress about the history of Presidential elections and voting in the United States
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As some of you know, I used to work as a reference librarian in a public library. I was doing that during the last election, and I had the privilege of speaking with many people who passed by my desk about elections and voting. People from all sorts of life circumstances with all sorts of beliefs. Sometimes they had a specific question. Other times they just wanted to talk to someone.
I took a lot away from those conversations, and I hope that my efforts to help the folks who trusted me with their questions, hopes, and anxieties were successful. Their personal experiences are not mine to recount here, but I want to share two things that I try to be better at in light of what I learned:
The first is to hold close the people in my life who live in this country without the right to vote. Especially during election season.
The second is to help people who can (and would like to) vote, but something is making it hard for them to do so. Countless challenges that may seem small to many of us can genuinely determine whether someone else votes.
Good luck this week, dear subscribers. I know it’s hard.
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