UMassD Votes
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Junior Christopher Wornham helping other students register to vote.
UMassD Votes
2026 MA State Election
Important Dates:
- October 5-9 National Voter Education Week
- October 17 - Early Voting Begins
- October 20 - Election Hero Day
- October 24 - Voter Registration Deadline/National Vote Early Day
- October 27- Vote by Mail Application Deadline
- October 30 - Early Voting Ends
- November 3 - Election Day
Offices on Ballot:
- U.S. Senator
- U.S. Representative
- Governor and Lieutenant Governor
- Attorney General
- Secretary of State
- Treasurer
- Auditor
- Governor’s Councillor
- State Senator
- State Representative
- District Attorney
- Register of Probate
- County Commissioner (certain counties only)
- County Treasurer (certain counties only)
- Sheriff (Franklin County – to fill vacancy)
- Additional local offices (vary by community)
Ballot Questions:
Click here to view the 2026 MA State Election Ballot Questions.
Don't forget to follow @UMassDVotes on Instagram for more updates.
Nonpartisan resources
Vote411 is a resource where you can register to vote, check your registration status, and find out what is on your ballot. They also provide a nonpartisan Presidential Voter Guide for the 2020 candidates.
Vote.org provides resources to check your registration status, register to vote, vote by mail, get reminders about upcoming elections, and pledge to register if you’re under 18. They also provide information about voter registration rules, deadlines, ID laws, and more.
The League of Women Voters works to improve voter registration, protect voting rights, and provide nonpartisan information about elections to educate voters.
Ballotpedia is an encyclopedia of information on politics and elections. You can look up candidates and see which candidates are running in races across the country.
Federal Voting Assistance Program
The Federal Voting Assistance Program provides resources to help people vote with a focus on helping military and overseas voters request absentee ballots.
The Overseas Vote Foundations focuses on helping U.S. citizens overseas, service members both abroad and at-home, and students studying abroad vote by absentee ballot. This is also a good resource for people activated by the National Guard on State orders.
Nonpartisan organization working on voting issues and/or voter turnout:
The Sentencing Project provides information about felons voting rights. The Sentence Project has been working on research, policy reform, media campaigns, and advocacy related to the criminal justice system for 30 years. Using the link above you will find information about felony disenfranchisement.
The Andrew Goodman Foundations works to increase voter turnout for young people by supporting youth leadership development, voting accessibility, and social justice initiatives on college campuses.
MASSPIRG’s New Voters Project focuses on increasing voter turnout on college campuses. It has long worked towards this goal, being the oldest and largest youth voter mobilization project in the country.
Rock the Vote works on increasing turnout of young people.
Head Count registers people to vote at concerts and runs programs to increase voter turnout.
Going for Gold
Goal
Increase student turnout in the 2026 Election as measured by the National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement.
Accomplishments to date
- All In Action plan submitted – received highly established action plan recognition
- Worked with Dartmouth Town Clerk to support polling location on-campus including student poll workers
- Partnered with Graphic Design class to create images for General Election
- Established student Vote Captain program and have recruited 4 Vote Captains
- UMass Dartmouth Vote Captain Christopher Wornham was named to National 2024 All in Student Honor Roll
- Trained on www.studentvote.org as voter registration tool & established social media
- Hosted five Vote Coalition Meetings
- Presented to over 500 First-Year students during Orientation
- Hosted Presidential Debate Watch Party