Early Voting Has Started

A reminder that early voting for the preferential primary has now started here in Arkansas. For information about your registration, the candidates, and all other issues election, visit the Secretary of State's Elections Division web page.  Here at the library, we have candidate information booklets available for the public, as well as public access computers that you can use to visit the Secretary of State's web site.

Get Registered to Vote!

As everyone should know by now, 2012 is a presidential election year. Anyone who is interested in voting in the preferential primary on May 22nd will need to be registered by April 22 - 30 days before the election. If you don't plan to vote in the primary (but why wouldn't you?) but want to vote in the general election in November, you must be registered by October 6th. Are you registered to vote? If you are, do you know where your polling place is? The Secretary of State's office has several ways for you to find out the answers to those and many other voting questions.

• For general voting information, including a calendar of the various state-wide elections that occur throughout the year, visit the Secretary of State's Elections Division page.
• If you need specific information about your voting information, visit the Vote Naturally webpage, which you can also access through the Elections Division page. This is your one-stop shopping place for all election information. You can search the voter database by your name and birth date; if you are registered, you will see the address where you are registered, as well as your various congressional, judicial, school and state congressional districts.  Your polling place location and address will also be listed.  Vote Naturally also has information about when and how to vote, candidates, the machines you will be using to vote, and past elections. 
• Prefer to check via your smart phone?  The Secretary of State has just introduced a new mobile application for you. Check it out on the SOS website: www.sos.ar.gov/m  
•  If you are not yet registered, and want to know if you are eligible, check the Voter Registration Information page from the Secretary of State's Office. There, you can also find a list of places where you can pick up the registration form, including here at the Arkansas State Library, as well as a printable PDF of the form that you can fill out and mail in.

 Plan to vote and make your voice heard this year. 

Election Results

Wondering about the results of the June 8th primary run-off election? The Secretary of State's Vote Naturally page is your place to look. There, you can find a quick view chart listing the results from all of the races up for a vote in the election or you can find out the voter turnout by county (only 35% of registered voters in Pulaski County voted in the May 19th primary). You can even find information about past elections going back to 1992.

From the Vote Naturally homepage, click on the green Election Results button to get to the Election Results page, then pick your election.