One vote per personIf your mail or early ballot has been accepted, the roster at your polling place shows it and you won't be given another ballot. Mailed yours? Check that it was accepted instead of going to the polls. Voting twice on purpose, or as someone else, is a felony.
Turn the ballot overVote both sides. Judges are usually on the back. The amendment is on the front in some counties and on the back in others; your sample ballot shows where. Leaving it blank counts as a No.
New this yearYou can update your registration at the polls, not only register. Election judges can now vouch only for people they personally know.
Want help marking your ballot?Bring anyone you choose, except your boss or a union officer, or ask two election judges. Every polling place has an accessible ballot-marking machine.
About the extremism checkWe used the Southern Poverty Law Center's 2025 Hate Map (all 1,214 listed groups and chapters), plus militias, QAnon, Jan. 6 charges, election denial and book-ban or anti-LGBTQ campaigns. A tie means something documented and public: an endorsement, a speech, a membership. The SPLC itself was indicted in April 2026 on federal fraud charges over how it paid informants inside extremist groups (NPR). News reports don’t tie the charges to its list of groups, and every tie we report cites the candidate’s own words, records or news coverage.