Make informed decisions at the polls
This November it is crucial that we bring our voices to the ballot box, not just in the Presidential and Congressional races, but in all the state-wide and local elections on our ballots. While these critical races too often get glanced over, these elections will send people to office who yield significant power in our daily lives. These fact sheets are designed to equip you with information on the impact of these races and their potential to have major consequences for reproductive freedom in our state.
This election is about more than who is in the White House. Candidates up and down the ballot can and will impact our lives in many ways, including:
- Protecting North Carolinians from legislative and executive branch overreach that denies us our federal and state constitutional rights (judicial races)
- Creating a school environment that provides our young people with medically accurate, non-stigmatizing sexual and reproductive health information (school board races)
- Potentially blocking more anti-abortion restrictions from becoming law in 2025 (state legislative races)
- Protecting abortion seekers and providers from criminalization (attorneys general)
- Collaborating with the Governor's Office to efficiently, equitably, and adequately resource and support residents, small businesses, and nonprofit organizations in North Carolina (Council of State offices)
Prepare to vote!
Please check your voter registration to make sure that you are ready to go for election day. If you are interested in information about voter ID, registration, early voting, mail-in voting and more, see the You Can Vote voter guide.
Ballots should be ready in early September. At that time, view your sample ballot and review the races and candidates you will be voting for. A good way to ensure you vote the whole ballot, which may be two pages, is to flip the ballot over and start with the down ballot races first.
The best way to ensure you vote, and your vote counts, is to make a plan about voting in this election! Whether that is ordering your absentee ballot as soon as you can, blocking time off on your calendar for the day you will go vote during the Early Voting period, scheduling a “brunch and vote” so you can go to the polls with your friends, or making arrangements to pick up someone to take them to the polls, a voting plan will ensure you and your people go vote in 2024! .
