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Where real election information lives

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Everything in the demo's scenarios is invented: Example State A, Example State B, their districts, their measures and their voting windows. That is deliberate, so nothing here can be mistaken for a real ballot. For anything real, the place to go is your official election authority.

Why the demo never shows real election details

Election rules, dates and ballots are set by the authority responsible for each election, and they change. A demonstration that copied them would go out of date, and a wrong date can cost someone their vote. So the demo labels every measure "Example," shows its voting window as an example schedule, and links out instead of restating official instructions.

The demo's VOTE NOW button opens a page that says live voting is not available here. No official vote can be cast on this site, and saving an opinion never registers you or records a ballot.

In the United States

Elections are run by states, counties and cities, so the office that answers your question depends on where you are registered. USAGov, run by the U.S. General Services Administration, keeps a directory where you can "find and contact your state or local election office for help with registering, voting, and getting election results" [1]. Choose your state or territory there and it links to that office's own website.

Your state or local office is the authority on registration, deadlines, polling places, mail ballots and your actual sample ballot. A voter guide can help you read a ballot, but the official ballot determines which contests you will see.

In Mexico

Federal elections are organized by the Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE), whose site is the official source for the voter credential and federal electoral information [2]. Each state also has its own local electoral body for state and municipal elections.

In the demo

The sample ballot overview and the live voting page list the official links for the country pack you are viewing, with the date each link was last checked. If a link ever stops working, report it from the help page A broken official link is removed or corrected from the authority's own site, never replaced with a guess.

Sources

  1. USAGov, U.S. General Services Administration, "State and local election offices," usa.gov/state-election-office, accessed October 28, 2026.
  2. Instituto Nacional Electoral, ine.mx, accessed October 28, 2026.