There are steps you can take to help you vote and minimize your risk during the COVID-19 pandemic. The more prepared you are the less time you may have to spend at the voting site.
When voting, you can protect yourself and others if you:
- Avoid close contact: try to stay at least 6 feet apart of other people, especially those not wearing a mask.
- Wear a mask around others
- Take care when touching surfaces and wash your hands often or, if not possible, use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol.
Bring your own supplies if possible
Use this checklist to remember things to bring with you when you go to vote:
- Necessary documentation such as your Voters ID card
- A mask
- An extra mask
- Tissues
- Hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol Wear a mask at all times
You should wear a mask consistently and correctly in public and around people who don’t live with you. - If you must take your mask off, use hand sanitizer before and after
- Have an extra mask in case yours gets wet or dirty
A few people might not be able to wear a mask because of a disability or condition.
Protect yourself when using transport to and from your polling station
- Open windows if you can
- Wear a mask
- Avoid touching things if you can and use hand sanitizer if you do
- Stay 6 feet (about 2 arm lengths) apart from others if you can
Clean your hands as often as possible
- Wash your hands or use a hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol before entering and after leaving your place of voting
- Use a hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol before and after touching items that many others may have touched, such as door handles
- Do not wipe down voting equipment unless you are told to do so
Keep your distance from others
- Stay at least 6 feet (about 2 arm lengths) from other people as much as you can
- Stay apart even if you are wearing masks.
