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Elections and Voting

The presidential primary election is Tuesday, March 5. Voting ends at 8:00 p.m. Here are all the ways to vote if you are down to the wire: 

• Vote in-person at your polling place. 
• Vote-by-mail ballots can be returned by mail, at a drop-off location, or your county elections office. 
• If you're returning your ballot via U.S. Mail, it must be postmarked on or before Election Day and received by March 12, 2024.

Journalists Tiffany Hsu, Stuart A. Thompson and Steven Lee Myers cover the crucial issue of election-related disinformation in the article "Elections and Disinformation Are Colliding Like Never Before in 2024." In that New York Times special feature, the authors note that this cycle of elections coincides with decreased social media protections, advances in artificial intelligence, a global wave of extremism, and multiple sources of information operations/warfare. 

More than ever, we're being subjected to false narratives and conspiracy theories about candidates and issues related to the 2024 presidential election--and it's critical that we be able to identify it in our information ecosystems.  

Our Elections & Voting Guide can help you cut through inflammatory rhetoric and media to assess ballot measures, find factual information about candidates, learn who contributes to campaigns, and more.