Are you registered to vote?
Are your co-workers registered?
How about your family members or neighbors?
The 2020 General Election is November 3, 2020, and the deadline in Texas to register to vote or update your voter information is October 5, 2020. Texas Children’s Government Relations department is leading our System efforts to make sure the answer to all of these questions is, “YES!”
Posters will soon appear at various locations around the organization with QR codes to help you with the following:
1.) Check your voter registration status.
2.) Update your voter information, or
3.) Register to vote. As our adherence to COVID-19 precautions prevent us from hosting in-person campus voter registration events, sharing this news story and its important links with your co-workers, family, and friends via text or email is especially important this year.
Every U.S. citizen has a right to vote, and here are some things to consider to get ready to participate in this year’s general election. First, check your voter information as soon as possible by clicking here. Next, have you (or a member of your family) recently moved or changed addresses? Unless you want to vote in your old voter precinct on election day, you must update your voter registration to reflect your current residence.
If you can’t find your voter registration information, you can complete an online mail-in voter registration webform by going here.
To assist with successfully completing the web form:
1. Print the form and
2. Address the envelope to the registrar address indicated in the top right of the printed form.
3. Fill out the form and review the application carefully
- Write legibly
- Choose an option for all four questions under part 1
- Your residence (#3) is where you live. Your mailing address (#4) is where you receive mail. If these are the same, you can write “same” for part 4.
- If this is your first time registering to vote in Texas, you can write “N/A” in part 5.
- You must sign and date the application including writing out full 2020 as the year.
4. Stamp and seal the envelope and place the filled out form in the convenient United States Postal Service mailbox.
5. To confirm your voter registration was received and processed, visit this website and click on “Am I Registered?”
Finally, besides voting for our next president, not sure who else is on the ballot? Go here and look up your county’s candidates for each race on the November 3, 2020 ballot.
For more details on the voting process and creating your personal plan for early voting or voting on election day, click here.
Texas Children’s non-partisan voter education activities are executed in collaboration with the Children’s Hospital Association guidelines on Permissible Nonpartisan Candidate and Voter Education Activities, which can be found here. All materials and publications associated with Texas Children’s voter education and registration activities is in no way is intended to reflect an endorsement for, or opposition to, any candidate or political party.
You can always access the latest voting details by visiting this page on the Texas Children’s site.