With the 2026 midterms approaching, When We All Vote is working to help voters get registered and show up at the polls. Visit WhenWeAllVote.org to check your registration status, find a Party at the Polls event near you and learn more about voting this November.
When We All Vote is planning thousands of community events nationwide ahead of the 2026 midterm elections amid concerns about voter intimidation and barriers to the ballot box.
Details on the Party at the Polls program and how it helps combat voter intimidation
On Tuesday, the nonpartisan initiative announced that its Party at the Polls program will reach more than 30 million voters through celebrations near polling locations and outreach by text, phone, email, mail and digital ads. The organization said this year’s program is its largest ever and that the program has previously increased voter turnout by 2 to 4 percentage points, according to a news release.
The announcement comes as voting rights advocates raise concerns about access to the ballot box, including the denial of campus voting sites at historically Black colleges and universities in North Carolina, threats of violence at polling places and confusion surrounding mail-in ballots.
“As early voting starts in the midterm elections, we can’t ignore how different and heavy voting feels for some Americans,” Kalisha Dessources Figures, senior adviser to When We All Vote, said in a news release statement.
“That’s why our largest-ever Party at the Polls program will ensure voters across the country feel empowered and energized to show up with and for one another,” she added.
Who is partnering with When We All Vote?
More than 400 community organizations, small businesses, faith-based groups and national nonprofits will partner with When We All Vote to host events. Partners include the NAACP, Blavity’s AfroTech, National Urban League, American Civil Liberties Union, Latino Media Network and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc.
Through a partnership with the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge, 180 colleges and universities will also host voting parties. Lyft will provide free and discounted rides to polling locations in select areas.
Flagship events include an Oct. 22 gathering at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro featuring actor Marsai Martin and Oct. 24 events in Detroit with the Detroit Pistons and comedian Loni Love, and in Phoenix with Poder Latinx Collective Fund. Events in Jackson and Hattiesburg, Mississippi, are scheduled for Nov. 1-3 with Mississippi MOVE and Hoopbus, per the news release.
Which states are holding the program?
The program will focus on the following 21 states identified by the Voting Rights Lab’s Election Risk Heat Map:
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Colorado
- Florida
- Georgia
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Louisiana
- Michigan
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Nevada
- New Jersey
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Virginia
- Wisconsin
