Voting 101: Elections & Voting Resources

Check your voter registration status!

Use this resource to find your polling place.

Not home or near your polling place on election day? Use this link to learn how to vote by mail.

The majority of New Jersey voters will submit their votes via mail for the 2020 election. Use this link to register with the NJ election commission and track your mail in vote to ensure YOUR VOTE COUNTS!

Guide to your Voting rights provided by the ACLU of New Jersey! Do not let your right to vote be infringed!

Website for the NJ Division of elections. Register to vote, confirm voting status, candidate information, and more.

Nonprofit, nonpartisan organization founded by the Center for National Independence in Politics (Corvallis, OR), Project Vote Smart's web site contains comprehensive and current information about election issues, campaigns, and candidates in both federal and state elections. Most candidate profiles include voting records, positions on selected issues, biographical details, campaign finance data, and performance ratings coompiled by major political interest groups.

Personalized voting resources. Locate your polling location, sample ballots, and candidate information.

The data contained in the ELEC database includes information as reported by candidates and committees. Currently contains voter contribution information for Primary and General elections (1985-2003). Can be searched by contributor name, candidate or committee name.

opensecrets.org is a project of the the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-partisan, non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C. that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy. The site provides easy access to campaign finance data for every member of Congress. You can search by politician, donor, state, zip code, industry or interest group. All of the data is taken from public records (e.g., reports filed with the Federal Election Commission).

The American National Election Studies (ANES) produces high quality data on voting, public opinion, and political participation to serve the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, policy makers and journalists who want to better understand the theoretical and empirical foundations of national election outcomes.

Using your home address this search will provide names and contact information for federal and state level elected officials representing you.

The statistics available at the FEC's site fall into two general categories: 1) those dealing with voting and voter registration, and 2) those dealing with the financing of elections. Voter turnout and registration statistics are available back to 1960, although the earliest data is not very detailed. Campaign finance reports and data based on legally required disclosures and filings are available for federal elections to the 1996 campaigns.

Easy-to-use source of campaign funding information includes over a dozen databases you can use to search for the financial details about campaigns, candidates, donors, political action committees, parties, and foreign agents. Many of the links lead to official reports filed with the Federal Election Commission, although this site organizes paths to the information in a different way.