A small group of Island activists staged a get-out-the vote rally at Five Corners in Vineyard Haven Saturday afternoon, urging Islanders to register, and go to the polls on Nov. 3 — or before.

On Wednesday, Women's Equality Day in the U.S., the Martha’s Vineyard Museum will be lighting its building in the colors of the suffrage movement from 7 p.m. to midnight.

Early voting for the presidential primary election begins on Monday and town clerks around the Island report an increase in voter registration ahead of the closely watched race.

Early voting for the March 3 presidential primary begins Feb. 24 on Island and continues through Feb. 28 at the following sites:

A new political advertisement born on the Vineyard features eight female Democratic candidates running in congressional races across the nation.

Early voting is underway and hundreds of Islanders have already cast ballots with less than two weeks to go until the Nov. 6 election.

It’s an even-numbered year and midterm election season has arrived in Dukes County as well as around the country.

The deadline to register to vote or change party for the Nov. 6 election is Oct. 17. All town clerk’s offices will be open that day until 8 p.m.

Vineyard voters will join their counterparts across the country at the polls Tuesday in a presidential election year expected to go down in history for unprecedented rancor, and an electorate on edge.

Early morning voter turnout for the special state primary and town elections Tuesday was low, but, in at least one town, steady. Oak Bluffs town clerk Deborah Ratcliff said that, as of 10 a.m., she had seen more voters than expected at the public library.

“We’ve had somebody here every moment,” she said. Shortly after, the lone pair of voters in the ballot area left as two more walked into the polls. Still, Ms. Ratcliff said only about 40 voters had shown up to mark their ballots.