It's time for good to know.
Which is your daily dose of knowledge nuggets about today's top stories.
And today we are looking at what you need to know about voting.
It seems pretty straightforward. A quick google search and a short wait in line.
But in a country with more than 50 officials
running elections under laws made by over 100 legislatures,
voting can get pretty confusing.
Anti Karshi,
a usa today journalist who reports on voting points out that
what you might not know might hurt your ability to vote.
Take a listen.
We are primed to see record levels of voting among all groups.
I think if any group doesn't show up,
it's just because they haven't been informed and they haven't been educated.
It's not that people don't care, it's not that people don't want to vote.
Oftentimes, it's just that they don't know no one has talked to them,
no one has engaged them.
The Secretary of the state is the top official running elections in
most states and they run elections in accordance with state law,
federal law and the constitution and court rulings.
And those often conflict and those sources of
conflict can end up in discarded ballots,
conflicts over voting rules and regulations have only
increased in recent years with two big culprits.
The covid 19 pandemic and a push in some states to
put stricter controls on when where and how people can vote
According to the Brennan Center of Justice at NYU.
Law,
20 states have passed laws with some sort of voting restrictions
since most of the us voted in 2020 of those states,
five of them passed laws that this year will
affect these elections and make it harder to vote.
But knowledge can help ensure that your vote counts and core she is here to help.
We really want to make sure that people know
we have a voter guide that can give them the
information and the issues that they need to know
so that when they show up on Election Day,
they have the materials the voter i.
D. S. That they need so that their vote can be counted.
You can find that guide on USA Today's website by searching voting rights project.