Adafruit has had paid day off for voting for our team for years, if you need help getting that going for your organization, let us know – we can share how and why we did this as well as the good results.
Here are some resources for voting by mail, voting in person, and some NY resources for our NY based teams as well. If there are additional resources to add, please let us know.
USA:
- Everything you need to vote – vote.org
- Find My State or Local Election Office Website – usa.gov/election-office
- Absentee Voting Information for U.S. Citizens Abroad – travel.state.gov
- National Association of State Election Directors – nased.org
- NCSL’s Elections Resources – ncsl.org
- ProPublica’s Electionland project covers problems that prevent eligible voters from casting their ballots during the 2020 election – propublica.org/electionland
- Primary turnout numbers annotated for how states can vote – voteathome.org/turnout
Election Mail:
- United States Postal Service: Election Mail – usps.com/votinginfo
- ACLU – aclu.org/voter
New York:
- New York City Absentee Ballot Request: November 3, 2020 Election ONLY – nycabsentee.com
- Early Voting Period is October 24, 2020 – November 1, 2020. Vote early.
- Absentee ballots in NY, anyone can request one, due to COVID (October 27, 2020).
- Check to see if you are registered to vote.
APIs/Datasources and more:
- Voting reminders for Americans who put things off – electioncal.us – for deadline reminders in a variety of formats. Open source data and implementation – electioncal.us/en/stats
- Civic Information API – developers.google.com/civic-information
NATIONAL POLL WORKER RECRUITMENT DAY 9/1/2020:
National Poll Worker Recruitment Day is a day of action with the goal of encouraging potential poll workers to sign up to Help America Vote in 2020 – eac.gov
ICAP has created fact sheets for all 50 states explaining the laws barring unauthorized private militia groups and what to do if groups of armed individuals are near a polling place or voter registration drive.
NYC – Early Voting and Absentee Voting by Mail or Dropbox.
Early Voting Information – NYC.
