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Tips to protect your vote and voter registration against glitches and hacking. (originally published before the 2018 midterms)
9 min readSep 30, 2019
By Jennifer Cohn
@jennycohn1 #ProtectOurVotes
Updated October 9, 2018
Note: I originally published this piece before the 2018 midterm elections. I decided to re-publish it because I can’t get the title to show on the original and the tips are applicable to future elections as well.
Protect your Voter Registration — applicable to all voters
- Expect these types of problems with your voter registration: (a) long lines due to voter registration issues, (b) widespread failure of electronic poll books, © being told at the polls that you aren’t registered at all, (d) being given a paper or electronic (touchscreen) ballot putting you into the wrong political Party or listing House races for the wrong voting District.
- To mitigate these problems, please do the following:
- Double check your voter registration several times before election day at https://www.vote411.org/
- Take a photo of your registration confirmation to use as proof in case you are later purged.
- Double check your polling place the day you…