Early bird gets the… blue crab? A week-long period of early voting in-person kicks off Thursday in Maryland, giving voters across the state another option to cast their ballots early.

Vote centers will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. every day until Nov. 3. All the locations are here; there are 14 vote centers in Montgomery County and 13 in Prince George’s County.

Maryland allows same-day voter registration during early in-person voting. People looking to take advantage of it are asked to bring a driver’s license, ID card or change of address card or a paycheck, bank statement, utility bill or other government document displaying the voter’s name and address.

Marylanders can also vote by mail; the deadline to request a mail ballot is Nov. 1 for ballots that will be mailed out and Nov. 4 for those that will be emailed to the voter. As of this week, more than 600,000 mail ballots have been requested by Maryland voters, with Montgomery and Prince George’s counties making up a third of that total. A recent court ruling will allow Maryland election officials to start processing mail ballots as they come in; as recently as the June primary, they had to wait until after Election Day to start counting them.

Voters in Maryland will be deciding the outcomes of a variety of state-level and local races, from governor, attorney general, and comptroller all the way to seats on county councils and school boards. But they are also being asked to weigh in on a number of ballot questions, including whether recreational marijuana sales should be legalized and if Maryland’s existing Court of Appeals should be renamed Supreme Court of Maryland.

For more information on many of the state-level and local races, check out DCist/WAMU’s Maryland Voter Guide.