How Do I Vote?

First and foremost, you must be registered. Voter registration ensures that elections are honest, because it prevents people from voting more than once. The MD State Board of Elections has implemented a new system that will track voter registration statewide, further increasing the integrity of the process. You must register in your County of residence, and you must cast your vote at the polling location that has been designated for your precinct. We can tell you in what precinct you reside and where you should go to vote, if you don't already know.

Kent County uses a system that is produced and supported by Diebold, Inc. The AccuVote-TS™ system is a robust voter-activated interactive touch-screen system that is hailed as the future of voting systems. Featuring an easy-to-operate touch-screen interface, it offers voters enhanced visibility and brightness.

Using an intelligent Voter Card as the voter interface, the AccuVote-TS permits voters to view and cast their votes by touching target areas on an electronically generated ballot. Each unit provides a direct-entry computerized voting application that automatically records and stores appropriate ballot information and results. At the end of the voting period, the system can print precinct totals to be included as part of the permanent record and modem the results to a host computer via TeleResults.

 

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Can I Help?

If you are interested in helping out as a pollworker during an upcoming election, contact us as soon as possible beforehand. It's very educational, and even exciting to be part of the election process. Often, you will be able to find out the results before others do!