TODAY (Saturday, Oct. 10) is the deadline for registering to vote for the midterms in DELAWARE.

And coming up next:

Tue, 10/13 — KANSAS
- LOUISIANA
- NEW JERSEY
- OREGON
- WEST VIRGINIA

More at npr.org/vote

TODAY (Friday, Oct. 9) is the deadline for registering to vote for the midterms in OKLAHOMA.

And coming up next:

Sat, 10/10 — DELAWARE

Tue, 10/13 — KANSAS
- LOUISIANA
- NEW JERSEY
- OREGON
- WEST VIRGINIA

More at npr.org/vote

My latest @npr.org story: If you have to use the U.S. Postal Service to return a mail-in ballot, USPS recommends mailing it at least a week before your state's deadline. And if you're mailing close to Election Day, stop by a post office to ask for a postmark to make sure it gets one on the same day

TODAY (Wednesday, Oct. 7) is the deadline for registering to vote for the midterms in MISSOURI.

And later this week:

Fri, 10/9 — OKLAHOMA

Sat, 10/10 — DELAWARE

More at npr.org/vote

This week's final voter registration deadlines for the midterms:

Wed, 10/7 — MISSOURI

Fri, 10/9 — OKLAHOMA

Sat, 10/10 — DELAWARE

More at npr.org/vote

TODAY (Monday, Oct. 5) is the deadline for registering to vote for the midterms in:

AMERICAN SAMOA
ARIZONA
ARKANSAS
FLORIDA
GEORGIA
INDIANA
KENTUCKY
LOUISIANA — in-person, mail (10/13 online)
MISSISSIPPI
MONTANA — mail (11/3 in-person)
OHIO
SOUTH CAROLINA — mail
TENNESSEE
TEXAS

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TODAY (Sunday, Oct. 4) is the deadline for registering to vote or updating your registration for the midterms in:

- ALASKA

- RHODE ISLAND

- SOUTH CAROLINA — online (10/5 mail)

- U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS — online

More at npr.org/vote

NEW: Planning and preparing for the #2030Census is one of the Commerce Department's top management challenges in fiscal year 2027, the department inspector general's office says
www.oig.doc.gov/top-manageme...

Eligible voters of the United States,

Have you checked your state or territory's deadline for registering to vote or updating your registration for the midterm elections? (SPOILER ALERT: They are coming up fast!)

There's a guide for you at npr.org/vote

NEW: The Census Bureau is proposing to conduct interviews about people's attitudes toward the bureau and the national head count to inform its #2030Census communications plan
www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...

2. ICYMI: A Trump #2030Census proposal would stop asking about race and ethnicity, as well as exclude millions of U.S. residents from a count that the 14th Amendment says must include the "whole number of persons in each state"
www.npr.org/2026/09/09/n...

NEW: The Trump administration has extended the deadline for public comments on its #2030Census proposal from Oct. 13 to Nov. 2
www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...

2. Starting Oct. 24 and through Election Day, USPS letter carriers are supposed to "check every delivery point for outgoing mail, regardless of whether they have incoming or destinating mail"
about.usps.com/what/governm...

2. ICYMI: The Pentagon made last-minute changes to forms that many overseas U.S. citizens use for absentee voting, removing a category of citizens that Republicans have been pushing to block from voting
www.npr.org/2026/09/30/n...

NEW: The Democratic National Committee is suing over the Trump administration's last-minute changes to forms many U.S. citizens living abroad use for absentee voting
www.courtlistener.com/docket/74903...

For my latest @npr.org story, I was turned into a 😺 (again) to explain how the #2030Census gives your state power

Here's a census cat comic, by my fur-midable colleague Connie Hanzhang Jin and me-ow:
www.npr.org/2026/10/01/n...

2. Full disclosure: The U.S. Postal Service is a financial supporter of NPR. As a NPR journalist, I follow the NPR Ethics Handbook, which says: “When appropriate, disclose funding relationships in related reports"
www.npr.org/about-npr/68...