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Register to Vote

Register to vote online at GOVOTE.ORG!

Make sure you're registered by confirming online at VotePoke or Can I Vote?

Research the laws in your state using Project Vote's Voter Registration Guides and Surveys

If you're an American citizen living abroad, find out the easiest way to register at the Overseas Vote Foundation

Find Your Polling Place

The best way to determine you polling location is to contact your local Election Clerk

You can also visit WWW.VOTE411.ORG -- the League of Women Voter’s “one-stop shop” for election info. The site offers nonpartisan information — both general and state-specific — on many aspects of the election process, including absentee ballot information, ID requirements, registration deadlines, and polling place locations.

Research the Candidates

U.S. PIRG Legislative Scorecard Find out how your elected officials voted on key public interest votes

Project Vote Smart’s website offers dependable, factual information about candidates and elected officials, including

• Voting Records -- Compare what your representatives said during the campaign with how they actually voted on the record.
• Biographical & Contact Information -- From their previous professions, education, families, organizational membership to their latest e-mail address, we gather it all.
• Issue Positions (Political Courage Test) -- The test accurately measures a candidate's willingness to provide voters with their positions on the issues they will most likely face if elected to represent you.
• Interest Group Ratings -- Over 150 competing special interest groups, from conservative to liberal, evaluate your representatives. Look at what they say.
• Public Statements -- Just type in a word, say; 'immigration' and all public utterances containing the word 'immigration' will appear. Compare what they said while campaigning in California a few years ago to what they are saying now in New Hampshire.
• Campaign Finances -- How much money did your representatives raise and from whom? Just follow the money and then follow the votes.

2008 Election Calendar

2008 State Primary Dates & Registration Deadlines from the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS)

2008 Presidential Primary Calendar from the National Conference of State Legislatures

Voter Turnout & Statistics

U.S. Election Assistance Commission
Voter Turnout and Statistics , including

• 2004 Election Day Survey
• 2002 Voter Registration and Turnout Overview
• 2000 Voter Registration and Turnout by State
• 2000 Voter Registration and Turnout by Age, Gender & Race

U.S. Census Bureau

• Voting and Registration Data Information on reported voting and registration by various demographic and socioeconomic characteristics is collected for the nation in November of congressional and presidential election years in the Current Population Survey (CPS)
• Voting and Registration in the Election of November 2004 (pdf), issued March 2006.
• Voting and Registration in the Election of November 2002 (pdf), issued July 2004
• Voting and Registration in the Election of November 2000 (pdf), issued February 2002
• Census 2000 Voting-Age Population and Voting-Age Citizens

Office of the Clerk/U.S. House of Representatives
Since 1920, the Clerk of the House has collected and published the official vote counts for federal elections from the official sources among the various states and territories.

• Election Statistics
• Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 7, 2006 (pdf), showing the vote cast for each nominee for United States Senator, Representative, and Delegate to the One Hundred Tenth Congress, together with a recapitulation thereof
• Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 2, 2004 (pdf), showing the highest vote for Presidential electors, and the vote cast for each nominee for United States Senator, Representative, Resident Commissioner, and Delegate to the One Hundred Ninth Congress, together with a recapitulation thereof, including the electoral vote
• 2004 Presidential Election - Popular Vote Totals Votes for individual candidates are as shown on each State's Certificate of Ascertainment.

Other Resources

NPR's Election 2008 Resource Center

Women's Voices. Women Vote aims to improve unmarried women's participation in the electorate and policy process.

Declare Yourself aims to empower and encourage every eligible 18-year-old in America to register and vote in the presidential primaries and 2008 presidential election

Brennan Center for Justice provides detailed policy analysis on voting rights and election issues

The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Information Programs offers election resources including videos, podcasts, and information on the candidates, voting and the election process

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) is an independent regulatory agency established in 1975 to administer and enforce the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA). That statute limits the sources and amounts of the contributions used to finance federal elections, requires public disclosure of campaign finance information and--in tandem with the Primary Matching Payment Act and the Presidential Election Campaign Fund Act--provides for the public funding of Presidential elections.

Interactive Electoral Map

New Website by the Nonprofit Voter Engagement Network (NVEN)