Election day is finally here.

Here's what you need to know to ensure your reconciliation goes smoothly.

When can I vote on Election Day?

Polling stations open at 7:30 a.m. on election day and close at 7:30 p.m

As long as you wait in line by 7:30 p.m., you have the right to vote, even if that means you have to drop off your ballot after closing time.

Where do I choose?

You can check your voter registration status and look up your polling location on the Secretary of State's Voter View portal here.

What should I bring with me?

To vote in Arkansas, you must show ID. Acceptable IDs include driver's licenses, passports, concealed carry permits, military IDs, welfare cards and public school IDs.

You can bring your phone, a sample ballot or sticky notes into the voting booth for reference, but not political mailings or other campaign literature.

It is also not allowed to wear clothing with political messages, slogans or the names of parties or candidates, Terri Hollingsworth, district clerk in Pulaski County, told THV 11.

What do voters say?

Just hours before early voting ended on Nov. 4, the line at the Pulaski County Election Commission stretched around three sides of the block.

The forecast that it would rain on Election Day had driven many of these voters to the polls early, hoping to beat the weather. With only one central early voting location open Monday, every voter had to come to downtown Little Rock.

Madison Davis, 76, said he was willing to wait in line even if it had rained.

“I have to make that commitment,” he said. “There’s a lot at stake.”

He had brought an umbrella to prove it.

Students Leah LeVar and Alex Weeks, both 18, had driven about 40 minutes and headed straight from class to cast their first ballot before finding themselves at the end of a line that only grew longer at 4 p.m. for the first time in such an important election? “Fear,” Weeks said.

“Yeah, it’s a little scary,” LeVar agreed. “I don’t really feel like my vote will count,” but the right thing was: “Even if it feels hopeless, vote anyway.” Yes, I had a lot of trouble with that.”

Aya Kondo, 29, and her brother Kouadio, 24, “borderline” scolded their father Yao, 65, a Little Rock pharmacist, to come vote with them.

Aya Kondo said she missed the convenience of mail-in voting as a student in Washington state: “Boss kiss seamless.”

As a public health student who works with pregnant women, she said Arkansas “is a challenging place” when it comes to reproductive rights (one of her top voting issues). So yes, I got him (Yao) to vote come,” as he hesitated and couldn’t find his registration card.

Yao, in turn, praised his children's enthusiasm and said, “I instilled in them the obligation to fulfill their constitutional right.”

The three ended up standing in line at the election commission for about an hour and a half after finding out that their designated early voting site was closed that day.

Arkansas Rep. Joy Springer, D-Little Rock, who is running unopposed, was on the sidewalk campaigning for a House colleague. She said she won the race in her 2020 primary by a single vote, an out-of-state absentee ballot.

“So every vote counts for sure,” she said. “One voice got me to where I am today.”

This article originally appeared on Fort Smith Times Record: When, where, how to vote on Election Day in Arkansas