Voting Info

Feel confident when you head to the polls.

Read up on information about voting in Indiana County. Voting on campus? Make sure you know where your polling location is, or check your registration. 

Help get out the vote with our affiliate organization, Pennsylvania Colleges Vote. See information for college students from the Department of State.

Pennsylvania Voters’ Bill Of Rights

If you feel that your right to vote has been violated in any way, please call the Election Protection lawyers hotline at 1-866-OUR-VOTE. This call is free.

1. At all primaries and elections, each polling place opens at 7:00 a.m. and closes at 8:00 p.m. If you are in line at the polling place when the polls close at 8:00 p.m., YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE in the election.

2. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE IF YOU DO NOT HAVE ID with you on Election Day. Election officers will verify your identity by comparing the signature on the voter’s certificate with your signature in the district register.

3. If you cannot read or write, or you are disabled, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO RECEIVE ASSISTANCE from anyone you choose, other than your employer, an agent of your employer, or an officer or agent of your union, as long as the reason why you need assistance is recorded on your voter registration card and election officers conclude that you are in need of assistance.

4. If you move to a different county after the fifth Monday prior to Election Day or if you move within the same county in which you are registered to vote, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE IN YOUR OLD PRECINCT.

5. If you damage or spoil your ballot, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO RECEIVE A “REPLACEMENT BALLOT” after returning the spoiled or damaged ballot to a poll officer.

6. When you are within a polling place, voting or waiting to vote, NO PERSON HAS THE RIGHT TO ELECTIONEER OR TRY TO INFLUENCE YOUR VOTE.

7. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT to bring your minor child or children into the polling place and to bring one such minor child into the voting compartment or voting machine booth.

8. You may remain in the voting booth for three minutes.

9. As of December 26, 2000 the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that convicted felons HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE upon release from prison. Please note that convicted felons who are incarcerated on the date of a primary or election are not eligible to vote, irrespective of whether they are registered.  However, pretrial detainees and misdemeanants HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE and /or to vote by absentee ballot if they otherwise qualify to vote under law.

10. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO FILL OUT A PROVISIONAL BALLOT even if your name does not appear on the general register and elections officials cannot determine your registration, even if you do not have an approved form of identification or even if an election official asserts that you are not eligible to vote.