Voting 2020: Deeds Not Words

Author: Department of History
September 1, 2020

"EVERY ELECTION IS DETERMINED BY THE PEOPLE WHO SHOW UP."

- Larry Sabato

“Deeds not Words” was a suffragette motto.

Exercise your right to vote for the many who have fought for you to have one.

Change over time is the cornerstone of our discipline.

Voting is one of the ways in which you actively participate in that change.

Below are resources to help you manifest the change you want to see in your community, your country, and your world.

Exercise your right to vote.

Register to vote

Check your voter registration

Request to vote by mail

Request an absentee ballot

Read the Voting Rights Advancement Act

You will be needed more than ever to work in-person polls this year, volunteer to be a poll worker