Get Ready to Vote!

Vote based on your local or permanent residence—you choose. Which you pick determines what ballot you get and where you return your ballot or vote in-person.

Why Choose Your Local Address?

• Have a say in local issues affecting you, like Manhattan rental housing policy and sales taxes.

• Conveniently vote in-person early or on Election Day; no absentee ballot or travel needed.

Why Choose Your Permanent Address?

• Have a say where you lived longer and know more about the issues.
• Often selected by Wildcats from the other 49 or Kansans wanting to vote in home-town contests.

 

Check your registration, even if you think it current.

For Kansas Voters:

Register or update your registration based on your selected voting location at ksvotes.org on or before Oct. 15.

For Voters in Other States:

Learn how to register at rockthevote.org.

If you moved since you last registered—even within the same county—you must update your registration to match your current address.

If you changed your name since you last registered, you also must update your registration.

 

Option A: Request Absentee Ballot

Best for those registered at their permanent address but an option available to everyone registered in Kansas.

• Kansans, just ask before Oct. 29 for an early ballot at ksvotes.org.
• Return your ballot via U.S. mail or at a drop box in the county you registered.
  
• Once you request an absentee ballot, you may not vote in-person. Mail or return your ballot by Nov. 5.

Option B: Vote Early, In-Person

Registered in Riley County, Kansas? Vote in the Kansas State Student Union or the Riley County Office Building. Check hours for both locations here.

Option C: Vote on Election Day, Nov. 5

Find your polling place, open 7am to 7pm, at ksvotes.org. Bring your driver's license, student ID, or passport.

 

K-State Student Voting Rates

At Kansas State, for example, voting rates vary significantly by major, with College of Arts and Science students voting at the highest rates and College of Agriculture students the lowest. When certain groups have more say in what happens in their communities and the nation, we fall short of the promise of our democracy.

The university is one of over 1,000 other colleges and universities registered in the National Study of Learning, Voting and Engagement (NSLVE), which issues reports of student voter participation in elections:

NSLVE Report Kansas State University 2014 and 2018
NSLVE Report Kansas State University 2012 and 2016
NSLVE Report Kansas State University 2020
NSLVE Report Kansas State University 2022