FAQs

While who you voted for is not available due to privacy laws, some states offer your voter participation history under the same "Am I Registered?" link used to confirm your registration status. Otherwise, you can always contact your county/precinct in which you are registered and they will be able to provide you with your history.

Most US citizens are eligible to vote abroad by absentee ballot. To understand more, please use Scan. Check. Protect. To confirm your registration, and then visit https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-travel/while-abroad/voting.html

Absolutely. Citizens can sometimes remain on a voter roll (or multiple if you have lived in various states) indefinitely until they take action to remove themselves.

While it may be alarming to find out you’re registered out of state, it does not necessarily mean your identity was stolen or your likeness is being used. If you have never lived in that state and discover your name is on the voter roll, it may have been as simple as human error at the county level, or (less likely) someone registered using your name which may happen due to data sharing between platforms, resulting in thousands of citizens’ information ending up on political lists for advertisement purposes.

Likewise, because we continually receive numerous reports of citizens’ registration status being changed back to “Active” where they were previously registered, or being changed to “Inactive” in their current state, we recommend checking your status regularly during an election year, even if you have not lived in a particular state for years.

No matter the case, the county should be notified of this error, and we also recommend filing a complaint with that state’s Elections Department. Our voter rolls are a mess and we should use every appropriate opportunity to advocate for better safeguarding procedures.