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States with an asterisk (*) have a later deadline for online or in-person voter registration. Please check Ballotpedia or Vote411 on if your state has a postmarked or received deadline for mailed in voter registration forms.

Sunday, October 4:

Alaska (mail, in-person, online)

Rhode Island (mail, in-person, online)

South Carolina (online, email or fax)

Monday, October 5:

Arizona (mail, in-person, online)

Arkansas (mail, Spanish, in-person)

Florida (mail, Spanish, in-person, online)

Georgia (mail, in-person, online)

Hawaii (mail, in-person, online)

Indiana (mail, in-person, online)

Kentucky (mail, in-person, online)

Louisiana* (mail, in-person)

Mississippi (mail, in-person)

Ohio (mail, in-person, online)

South Carolina (mail)

Tennessee (mail, in-person, online)

Texas (mail, in-person)

Tuesday, October 6:

Illinois* (mail, in-person)

Nevada* (mail, in-person)

New Mexico* (mail, online)

Wednesday, October 7:

Missouri (mail, in-person, online)

Friday, October 9:

Idaho (mail, in-person, online)

New York (mail, Spanish, Accessible English, Accessible Spanish, in-person, online)

North Carolina (mail, Spanish, in-person, online)

Oklahoma (mail, in-person, online)

Saturday, October 10:

Delaware (mail, email, or fax, in-person, online)

NOTE: Flipping the Texas House and four of the State Supreme Court seats this November can potentially protect Texas from Republican gerrymandering as the 2021 redistricting year comes up. If the TX legislative and State Supreme Court remain in GOP control, Texas will be redmapped in GOP favor in the next decade and beyond and shut out progressive candidates.

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Of the nine members of the Texas Supreme Court, all but two initially gained their seats through appointment, and all nine list their party affiliation as Republican. But an impressive array of Democratic opponents will be before voters in November, and they are worth your vote. Among them are:

• Amy Clark Meachum, candidate for the state Supreme Court’s Chief Justice, is a judge in Texas’ 201st District Court, where she has served since 2011. A. graduate of SMU and the UT-Austin law school, she serves as Civil Presiding Judge for all civil and family law cases in Travis County and is judicial liaison for the Administrative and Public Law Council for the state Bar of Texas. She was the recipient of the Travis County Women Lawyers Association Pathfinder award in 2015, among many other awards, and is a frequent speaker for the State Bar of Texas, Austin Bar Association and Texas Center for Legal Ethics.

• Kathy Cheng operates her own law firm in Houston where she also volunteers with the League of Women Voters and other non-profits. A native of Taiwan, she immigrated with her parents and three siblings at the age of 9 due to political uncertainty in her native land. She has degrees from LSU-Shreveport and South Texas College of Law. An advocate for her clients for nearly two decades, she understands that to achieve equality and fairness one must have a voice. She notes that there is a dire need for diversity on the state’s highest court, which for more than two decades has been comprised solely of Republicans.

• Staci Williams is a judge in Texas’ 101st District Court where she has served since 2014. She has a B.A. from Smith College and a J.D. from Georgetown University. With a wide variety of corporate and retail legal work under her belt, she has served as trial attorney and administrative judge for the EEOC, counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee and a municipal judge in Dallas. Williams has also been on arbiter panels for the USPS, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.

• Gisela Triana serves in Place 6 of the Texas Third District Court of Appeals, a position she has held since last year. She holds a B.A. from the University of Texas-San Antonio and a J.D. from UT-Austin. Triana has worked as Trial Division director with the Travis County Attorney’s Office and as staff attorney with the Texas Secretary of State’s Election Division. Triana has more than 24 years of experience on the judicial bench. Before serving on the Appellate Court, Triana served on every level of the Texas trial courts. Her experience makes her highly qualified to serve.

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Many Texans will also likely have minor judicial elections on their ballot. 

Check out the nonpartisan Vote411 which directly sources the profile and campaign pages from the candidates when elections are close.

League of Women Voters Vote411.org: check your voter registration status, see what's on your ballot, find your polling place, view a side-by-side comparison of candidates' positions on the issues, and more. Voter guides are in English and Spanish.

Ballotpedia: find out how to register to vote in your state, voter ID requirements, voter registration deadlines, early voting dates, if your state offers same-day voter registration, what's on your sample ballot, explanations of ballot measures, and more.

Vote.org: register to vote, check your voter registration, find your polling place, request an absentee ballot, and more.

Rock The Vote: register to vote, check your voter registration status, request an absentee ballot, look up your state's voter ID laws, voting deadlines, and more.

When We All Vote: register to vote, check your voter registration status, request an absentee ballot, volunteer, and more.

It always saddens me to see how many candidates fail to respond to these simple queries from LVW…but it was heartening to see our young, first-year State Representative (elected last fall in a special election), running unopposed, in a safe Democratic district, still took the time to do so.

New this year was a series of bar charts that reveal candidate fundraising and spending in our US House race. It’s more of a curiosity than anything else (because the data is a simple aggregation), but it’s nice to see the LVW continuing to expand and improve the kinds of information available 👍

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Local elections are so very important. They are happening this week in states all across the USA and the Vote411 site can help you not only register/double check your registration, but let you know the details of your local elections. You can skip right past their request for info and just click your state!

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Not sure if there is an election in your state? Go check! Better safe than sorry!

Conservatives are banking on voter apathy and ignorance of the process to maintain control and it's up to all of us to stop them! the little elections draw the gerrymander lines that swing the big elections!

The little elections are the place to grow your third parties and independent candidate power bases! We're not going to get a socialist or green party senator (let alone a president) until there's members of those parties in state legislatures, mayor's offices, and governor's mansions across the country.

Under voting age or an otherwise-supressed voter? Keep sharing resources like these with people who are able to vote. It's the best way to get your right to vote and KEEP IT!

Check your Vote411 to see what’s on your ballot. It has nonpartisan guides where the candidates answer questions and you can make comparisons. Judges, city council, sheriffs, those are important elections too.