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Resources & FAQs

Use these resources to help you register to vote, request a mail-in ballot, look up your polling place, learn about who/what is on your ballot, and more!

Check your voter eligibility and register to vote through the State Board of Elections

Will you be voting by mailRequest your ballot through State Board of Elections

Don't know where your polling place is? Look it up here!

Don't know who your candidates are? Find them here!

For all other questions about voting in Maryland, visit the main Maryland Election Website!

Are you a UMD professor or instructor who wants to teach their class about voting and elections?

  • The TerpsVote Coalition has created a course module, which includes an instructor lesson plan and a powerpoint, for teachers to run virtually with their students! The course module includes activities about how to vote, why voting is important, and how college students are impacted by the elected officials on their ballot.
     
  • The entire lesson plan includes six comprehensive activities and runs for 90 minutes. But, the lesson plan is customizable and you can pick the activities that you think would be the most engaging for your students and condense it into a 20-minute or 30-minute activity. 

Please reach out to terpsvote@umd.edu for a copy of the powerpoint and the lesson plan, as well as for answers to any questions you and your students have about elections and voting.

What are your voting rights? How do you vote early? Get all your voting questions answered with Voting 101

Stay up to date about current elections & your ballot on Ballotpedia!

The League of Women Voters has great resources about voting rights & elections! 

Our libraries have tons and tons of information about current elections & previous elections at the national, state, and local level 

Our own Capital News Service, powered by students and faculty from the Merrill College of Journalism, has also created an outstanding resource: a Board of Education Voter Guide. This website consolidates responses from school board candidates across the state, and is a helpful read before you head to the polls

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