Get Out the Vote 2024
Voting is fundamental to democracy and a privilege in America. Many generations fought hard for suffrage to ensure our democratic rights remain today. Yet, many people are still disenfranchised through legal barriers, discrimination, intimidation, and unreasonable voting requirements. Events like protests, storms, and economic challenges further complicate voting. Many eligible voters don’t cast their ballots due to apathy, inattention, or lack of planning. The Environmental Voter Project estimates that 10 to 15 million Americans who identify as environmentalists don’t vote regularly or at all.
Now is the time for Americans to exercise our right to vote, and help others do the same. Whether you are a concerned citizen or an organizational leader, you can help others exercise their right to vote. Every vote counts — especially yours. Please vote and explore our NEW Know Your Voting Rights Guide.
🇺🇸 NEW RELEASE 🇺🇸 Know Your Voting Rights:
A Comprehensive Guide
Discover the essential information you need to protect and exercise your voting rights. Get informed, stay empowered, and make your vote count!
Discover Our Year-Long GOTV Action Plan
Join us in a strategic, collective effort to mobilize, educate, and inspire action with our GOTV Social Toolkit + Monthly Action Plan for 2024!
This toolkit provides you with the resources you need to make a tangible impact. Together, we can make 2024 a landmark year for climate advocacy by promoting informed, engaged voting.
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1. Verify your registration
Even if you already registered to vote, make sure that you are registered in the jurisdiction where you are planning to vote. Many states have recently purged their voter rolls. Take 2 minutes TODAY to check your voter registration status.
- Go to Vote.org or VoteAmerica.org to check the status of your registration.
2. Know your deadlines and eligibility
Know the last day to register to vote, request an absentee ballot, early voting dates, identification requirements, and poll hours. In 2024, a presidential election year, many states also hold elections for governor and local offices in other years. Understand your state’s schedule and vote in both major and off-year elections. Find information by state or topic. Start NOW and make your voting plans.
- State Information: Vote411.org (League of Women Voters) has state-specific deadlines and laws.
- Topic information: Ballotpedia provides details on voter registration and early voting.
3. Register to vote, and consider voting by mail where possible
Whether you are already registered or just registering today, consider the vote-by-mail option as a safe and easy way to exercise your right. Check to see if you are eligible!
- Register to vote here.
- Check to see if mail-in voting is offered in your state.
- Make it easy, by requesting an absentee ballot here, from Vote.org.
4. Get Out The Vote (GOTV)
Help protect the right to vote by assisting others with voter registration, providing voting rights information, and increasing voter turnout. Share these resources with others to spread the word.*
- Know Your Voting Rights: A Comprehensive Guide to Empowering Voters.
- Vote.org’s Know Your Voting Rights. Visit 866ourvote.org or call 866-OUR-VOTE for information on election protection. Stay up to date on anti-suppression efforts.
- For offline voter registration go to FairElectionsCenter.org for state-specific guidelines. Here are tips for using online registration at community events.
- Refer to Voteriders.org, a national organization assisting people in getting identification documents to help them make sure they can vote.
- Vote.org offers tools for verifying, registering, and requesting absentee ballots, which can be embedded into your own website. Information submitted by potential voters is NOT shared with you.
- VotoLatino.org educates and empowers a new generation of Latinx voters.
- RockTheVote offers voter registration and other resources to increase the turnout of young adults.
- Turbovote.org offers some of the tools as Vote.org and has options in Spanish.
- Promote National Voter Registration Day: September 17, 2024.
- Register to be a local poll monitor.
- HealthyVoting.org helps you find healthy, secure, and safe ways to cast your ballot.
- And, don’t forget to get the word out via social media, social functions, and yard signs.
5. VOTE
Make a plan for when and how you will cast your ballot in your federal, state, and local elections (from politicalcharge.org):
- PREPARE: Know what is on your ballot, and consider candidates’ platforms, statements, records, and plans. See what’s on your ballot, Vote411.org. Use ecoAmerica’s Local Candidate + Ballot Measure Climate Assessment Tool.
- WHEN: Decide when you will vote. You may be able to vote early, by absentee ballot, or through all-mail ballots. If voting in person on Election Day, plan your schedule and set a reminder on your phone.
- WHERE: Find your polling location or ballot dropbox, as it may have changed. Check here to find your polling place.
- HOW: Plan your transportation. Decide if you’re driving or need a ride. Consider going with friends or neighbors to increase the likelihood of voting.
Share these #GOTV Resources and Links on Social Media!
Click HERE for the Social Toolkit
* Anyone is free to share any of the information provided in this post, including 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations.