Looking for a ride to your polling place on Election Day?

• Ask a friend or neighbor for a ride to the polls. Polls are often located near where you live, so someone who lives close to you may be going to the same place to vote. Find your polling place in advance so you can talk to neighbors and friends.
• Contact a political party. Many offer resources to help find Election Day rides to the polls.
  • Constitution Party of Minnesota: 507-644-3183
  • Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party of Minnesota: 651-293-1200
  • Green Party of Minnesota: 651-288-2820
  • Independence Party of Minnesota: 651-487-9700
  • Libertarian Party of Minnesota: 763-561-8038
  • Republican Party of Minnesota: 651-222-0022
• Often community and non-profit organizations offer rides to the polls as well. In advance of upcoming elections, we will update this page with resources we are aware of. Please let us know if your organization will be providing rides so we can include your information.

• Metro Transit Bus and LRT Information: Use the trip planner to plan a trip to the polls via public transportation. 

Reminder: Persons transporting voters to the polls must not in any way try to induce or persuade voters about their candidate or ballot selections on Election Day.

All polling places meet state and federal accessibility standards, including:

• Curb cuts where needed
• Accessible parking spaces, if parking is provided to all voters 
• Signage indicating an accessible entrance and route in building
• Accessible voting booth with chair
• Seating available for voters waiting to vote
• Notepads available to communicate in writing
• Magnifier for election material and the ballot
• Sufficient space for voters in wheelchairs

Assistance with voting

If you or anyone voting needs assistance for any reason on Election Day or when casting an in-person absentee ballot, you may:

1. Get assistance from a person of the your choice, except your employer, an officer or agent of your union, or a candidate for election.
2. Get the assistance of two election judges from different major political parties.
3. Use the AutoMARK: Each polling place, including in-person voting locations during absentee voting, has at least one voting machine accessible to voters with disabilities, including those with a vision impairment or difficulty using a pen. It allows voters who require assistance marking the ballot themselves to vote independently by allowing voters to indicate their choices using a touch screen or headphones in combination with a keypad marked in Braille. You can use the AutoMARK to enter choices and the AutoMARK will prints the ballot for you. It does not count votes or retain your choices. You take the ballot after it prints your selections and deposit it into the optical scan ballot counter along with all the other ballots at that voting location.
4. Use curbside voting to register and vote without leaving your vehicle. Two election judges who are members of different major political parties will come outside to assist the voter.

The election judges or other individuals who assist a voter may not request, persuade, induce, or attempt to persuade or induce the voter to vote for any particular political party or candidate. An individual assisting a voter may not reveal to anyone the name of any candidate for whom the voter has voted or anything that took place while assisting the voter.

Help from family, friends, or neighbors

You can bring a family member, friend, neighbor or anyone you choose to help you vote. The only exception is that you can't get help from your employer, your union or a candidate for office.

Your assistant can help you in all parts of the voting process, including in the voting booth. However, helpers can only physically mark ballots for up to three voters in an election. You can show your ballot privately to an election judge to check that it is correctly marked.

Like election judges, helpers are not allowed to influence your vote or share how you vote with others.

Curbside voting is available

Voters unable to enter a polling place may register and vote without leaving their vehicle. If you or someone you are with at a polling place would like to use curbside voting, notify a volunteer or an election judge.

When you use curbside voting, an election judge will ask for your name as the voter, and will look up in the roster to verify whether or not you are already registered and that you have not already voted by absentee ballot. Then, a team of two election judges will:

• take a Certificate of Registered Voter form, along with a Voter Registration Application (if you are not already registered) to your car;
• bring the ballot, clipboard, pen, secrecy folder, and "I Voted" sticker to the car;
• allow you to mark the ballot, and then ask you to wait while they bring your ballot back into the polling place to insert into the ballot counter; and
• return to your car to let you know that your ballot has been accepted.

Voter registration and absentee ballot instructions are available in alternate formats through Hennepin County Elections, 612-348-5151, TTY 612-348-3461.

Many materials are also available in additional languages. Throughout this site, materials are linked in multiple languages as available, and all such materials are also available on the Language Support page.

If you need materials provided by the City of Minneapolis in an alternative format please contact the Neighborhood and Community Relations Department at 612-673-3737 or email NCR@minneapolismn.gov. Deaf and hard-of-hearing persons may call 311 or 612-673-3000. TTY users may call 612-673-2157 or 612-673-2626.

Español (Spanish) - Atención. Si desea recibir asistencia gratuita para traducir esta información, llama 612-673-2700.
Hmoob (Hmong) - Ceeb toom. Yog koj xav tau kev pab txhais cov xov no rau koj dawb, hu 612-673-2800.
Soomaaliga (Somali) - Ogow. Haddii aad dooneyso in lagaa kaalmeeyo tarjamadda macluumaadkani oo lacag la’ aan wac 612-673-3500.
Attention: If you want help translating this information in a language other than Hmong, Spanish or Somali, call 311 or (612) 673-3000.

• Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services TTY 612-673-2157
• Hennepin County Elections TTY 612-348-3461
• Minnesota Secretary of State: For TTY communication, contact MN Relay Service at 711 and ask them to call the Secretary of State Elections office at 651-215-1440.

Vote by absentee ballot prior to Election Day

All voters in Minnesota may choose to vote by absentee ballot without any excuse. You may request an absentee ballot for the next upcoming election at any time or may apply to automatically receive absentee balloting materials for every election. Requests for absentee balloting materials are taken year-round, and ballots are mailed out to voters beginning 46 days prior to the next regularly scheduled election. In-person absentee voting is also available at the Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services office during the absentee balloting period.

Get more information on Voting by Absentee Ballot prior to Election Day.

Additional voting options are available for:

• Health care facility residents

Voter's Bill of Rights

1. If you are in line at your polling place any time before 8:00 p.m., you have the right to vote.
2. If you can provide the required proof of residence, you have the right to register to vote and to vote on election day,
3. If you are unable to sign your name, you have the right to orally confirm your identity with an election judge and to direct another person to sign your name for you.
4. You have the right to request special assistance when voting.
5. If you need assistance, you may be accompanied into the voting booth by a person of your choice, except by an agent of your employer or union or a candidate.
6. You have the right to bring your minor children into the polling place and into the voting booth with you.
7. If you have been convicted of a felony but your felony sentence has expired (been completed) or you have been discharged from your sentence, you have the right to vote.
8. If you are under a guardianship, you have the right to vote, unless the court order revokes your right to vote.
9. You have the right to vote without anyone in the polling place trying to influence your vote.
10. If you make a mistake or spoil your ballot before it is submitted, you have the right to receive a replacement ballot and vote.
11. You have the right to file a written complaint at your polling place if you are dissatisfied with the way an election is being run.
12. You have the right to take a sample ballot into the voting booth with you.
13. You have the right to take a copy of this Voter's Bill of Rights into the voting booth with you.

Voting rights information from the Minnesota Office of the Secretary of State

• Voting with a criminal record
• Voting when your home is in foreclosure
• Voting when you are homeless
• Voting from a Residential Facility
• Voting for People Under Guardianship
• College Student Voting
• Voters Who Fear for Their Safety