Election Day

In 4 days from now the United States of America is holding a large general election. This election (depending on your state) has more than just the presidential vote on it. All states have the House of Representatives positions being voted on and in some states senate positions being voted on and governor elections(Washington, Montana, North Dakota, Utah, Missouri, Indiana, West Virginia, Delaware, New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Vermont {image link, not gif at bottom of page}), local judges, and even local policies.

Every city, county, and state has different districts, this will directly affect your vote for who represents you in the House of Representatives and other local ballot options. The Share America Site puts it best: "The U.S. electoral system is very decentralized. On November 5, voters across the country will all have the presidential race on their ballots, but beyond that, their ballots will differ based upon the offices being selected in their particular jurisdiction.

Some state and local ballots will ask voters to decide questions such as whether to borrow money for projects like new fire stations. Some states are choosing a governor or state legislators. Finally, there are localities choosing mayors or city council members."

If you're interested in learning more you can visit a website like ballotready.org and type in your address to easily identify what district you belong and what things are on the ballot. If you are uncomfortable doing so you can scroll down the main page and select your state and get a generalized idea of what may be on your ballot. In the state section you can also see things like if your state offers mail in voting (the period for this has likely passed if you did not pre-register (at least as is the case in Illinois)) and whether your polling places offer in=person applications to vote. In Illinois we allow U.S. citizens the convenience of registering the same day.

Every state is different!

While I would assume most of you are not of age to vote yet, for those of you that are, I wanted to provide some resources and information so that you can have informed information on how to vote. If you want help researching candidates and the like the best I can do is try and offer some unbiased websites:
https://apnews.com/
https://www.reuters.com/
It is important to get information from a variety of sources, 2 sources is not enough to adequately research a given topic or representative!
Please feel free to provide some alternatives in the comments, I will try to vet your news sources as being unbiased but I may be unable to.

As of tomorrow Nov 2nd: