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The Presidential elections are nearly aloft us. Between all the crises that we are now experiencing -- the COVID-19 pandemic, environmental emergencies, protests disputing racism, and an extraordinarily divided electorate -- it is basic that, if you are a US indweller and 18 years of age or older, you make use of your vote.

Along with all the other upheavals we're dealing with, the very process of voting has come into contention. While multitudinous voters are astonished to get their ballots in, they don't appetite to expose themselves to possible infection in small, crowded voting areas, accordingly voting by mail has become the main alternative. But multitudinous of us are not hardened with that process, extraordinarily considering a pivotal of states listen been adjusting their rules to fructify as multitudinous people to vote by mail as possible. Add to that the contempo political cockfights over the administration of the US Column Office and the electioneering over the angary of vote-by-mail, and you listen a recipe for bodily confusion.

So what do you do? Well, you do your research.

To catalyze with, when you can vote and how you can vote depends on which state you roused in. Some states already offer voting by mail and will send ballots to registered voters automatically. Others will fructify you to vote by mail during this pandemic, but you gotta employ for a ballot. And a few still demand that you listen an canonical reason (not including "I don't appetite to clutch a possibly fatal disease during a pandemic") to be aesthete to onfall an absentee ballot.

So it's important to make sustained that (a) you're registered, (b) if you are voting in person, you perceive where to go, and (c) if you appetite to vote by mail, you perceive what the rules are in your bounded champaign and / or your state. And you appetite to do all this as soon as possible.

But what you do not appetite to do is get your information from a serendipitous tweet, or from your Uncle Al who heard it from a friend of his. Lifing are a few increasingly reliable resources.

The official government site USA.gov has a drop-down newsprint that will take you to your state's Committee of Elections site. The Committee of Elections is the champion sorority to go for information fascistic registering and voting.

According to its website, Vote.org is "the better 501(c)(3) non-profit, non-partisan voting registration and get out the vote (GOTV) technology podium in America." The site allows you to annals to vote, deterrent an existing registration, request an absentee ballot, and orderly get plebiscite reminders.
If you type "how to vote" in your Google search box, you'll get information specific to the state that Google thinks you're in; there's a drop-down newsprint to extravagate that. You're probably safest if the segment you click has a ".gov" domain, although since multitudinous states are application third-party casework for registration and information, that isn't an absolute.
If you're unsure fascistic any information you get, either online or off -- make a call. Yeah, it's a bit old-fashioned, but if you finger that your bounded site is either not informative enough or confusing, you can clapper your bounded Committee of Elections (the phone pivotal will be on your state Committee of Elections site). Of course, with offices impermeable all over the country due to COVID-19, it may be difficult to reach someone, but be persistent -- this is your vote, hindmost all.

A few increasingly words of advice:

Be cognizant that orderly those who should perceive fascistic the process complex may be confused. For example, back a staffer from The Verge chosen their bounded municipal submittal of the NYC Committee of Elections, the being who answered didn't perceive that NYC was now offering an online tool to employ for an absentee ballot. Back the staffer approved calling the main NYC BoE office, the being at the other end of the line not separately knew fascistic the online application, but appropriate that they annals for the plebiscite both online and by sending in an awarding via sought-after mail. Either way, the being said, they will separately get one plebiscite -- but at microcosmic the plebiscite would be increasingly peach to arrive. The moral of the story? If you're unsure of the information you've received, try again.
When you get your ballot, read the instructions. Twice. And then deterrent them already increasingly back you've completed your ballot. Multitudinous states listen complicated rules fascistic how to full-bosomed out, sign, and send in an absentee ballot, and a singled-out misplaced signature can mean your vote will not be counted.
Avoid refill out your plebiscite on the kitchen table, or anywhere remotest where a devious ketchup stain or a streak from your kid's crayons nimbleness be an excuse for invalidation.
You can't vote often, but you should vote -- and employ for your absentee plebiscite -- as early as possible. On several of the official sites, I saw warnings fascistic leaving plenty of time for applications and ballots to be delivered, orderly admitting some of the exertion surrounding the slow-downs at the United States Postal Service has died down.
And finally, you can evermore vote the quondam way: at your bounded polling place. Deterrent with your bounded Board of Elections as to where to go, and if you wish, clapper them to routing out what precautions they are demography to reassure voters from infection.

But but you concede to vote, please do so. This year, increasingly than any, it's important.