Check your voter registration.

[Angie Gallant]

With both rumored and confirmed shenanigans going on with voter purges going on this close to the election, I think it's a good idea for everyone to confirm their registration. This site (http://www.votersunite.org/info/RegInfo.asp) lets you know when you can register, how to confirm that you are registered, where your polling location is, and any rules you need to know about election day voting.

[Not One Of Us]

Being a registered Republican, I don't think I have to worry.

Jokes on them, I'm voting Obama!

[Angie Gallant]

If anyone in your county with a name similar to yours has died since the last election you could have ended up accidentally purged regardless of your love for elephants and war.

[Rimbo]

Being a registered Republican, I don't think I have to worry.

Jokes on them, I'm voting Obama!

Now that's funny. :)

[mdowdle]

If anyone in your county with a name similar to yours has died since the last election you could have ended up accidentally purged regardless of your love for elephants and war.

Actually, in some areas, if someone in the county with a name similar to yours dies, it means you can vote twice!

[Sarkus]

I moved and recently received my new voter registration card, so I think I'm safe.

Thanks, though.

[arctangent]

I already voted by absentee ballot so I should be safe, assuming it's actually counted (but if I voted in person I'd still not know for sure if that vote would be counted either; thanks, electronic voting machine companies.)

I followed the instructions that came with the absentee ballot very carefully, too. :)

[Cubit]

I'm with you, not one of us. I'm totally registered republican, but will be voting obama.

[Rimbo]

Obama Republicans Unite.

[Hugin]

Living in MA I'm kind of not worried about shenanigans, but I just had my registration re-confirmed anyway (and actually found out my polling place has moved since the last election, so, it wasn't a waste of time after all).

[Angie Gallant]

Yeah, I was just reading about some purge shenanigans going on up here in Washington (it looks like several states are ignoring the federal rules about not purging voter lists 90 days before an election) and someone who got hit by it. Luckily they had enough time to get it sorted out. As I said before, vote fraud really bothers me and I would rather everyone, no matter who they are voting for, gets to have their voice heard.

[Athryn]

Thanks Angie! I confirmed mine and my boyfriend's, even though he bitched that the thingie they give us means it's confirmed.

[Euri]

The county auditor sent me a new voter reg card like three days after we had established our new address. My entire county is 100% absentee so I should be getting the packet any time now.

[krise madsen]

Once again, I'm gobsmacked that the country which is one of the world's oldest democracies, which invented the nuclear bomb and went to the moon can't figure out how to hold a free and fair election.

Respectfully

krise madsen

[Midnight Son]

Once again, I'm gobsmacked that the country which is one of the world's oldest democracies, which invented the nuclear bomb and went to the moon can't figure out how to hold a free and fair election.


It's not that we can't, it's that certain people see the need to cheat.

[Casper]

I already voted, bitches...at least, I sent in my ballot thingy. I didn't get a sticker though, yet. Maybe it'll come in the mail.

[Scrax]

Newb question.

This is my first actual presidential election that I can vote in. Do I have to vote at the polling place closest to where I live (where I registered). Or am I able to vote in a polling location near where I work, which is in a different district.

[Angie Gallant]

You have to vote at the polling location you are assigned to. It should be the one closest to where you live, but double check either on the website I listed, or on your voter registration card. You will not be able to vote at any other location.

[Dave Markell]

The easiest approach is to register as a permanent by-mail voter if your state allows it (mine, California, does). Of course, you need to vote about at least a week before the actual election, so if you're concerned about a November surprise, it's not a good idea.

[Angie Gallant]

At least some of the vote-by-mail states allow you to override your mail-in vote if you show up at the polls, so if there's a nasty November surprise that changes everything you can still change your vote.

[arctangent]

Newb question.

This is my first actual presidential election that I can vote in. Do I have to vote at the polling place closest to where I live (where I registered). Or am I able to vote in a polling location near where I work, which is in a different district.

You might want to check out the voting rules for Virginia (I'm assuming you live in Virginia?) here:

http://www.sbe.virginia.gov/cms/

You can find out where your precinct is here:

https://www.voterinfo.sbe.virginia.gov/PublicSite/Public/FT2/PublicPollingPlace.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSuppor t=1

[XPav]

Thanks for the reminder, Angie, I moved, and the DMV appears to be taking it's sweet time, so I'll just send in the voter registration directly.

Funny enough, my wife went through just fine.

[Sarkus]

Once again, I'm gobsmacked that the country which is one of the world's oldest democracies, which invented the nuclear bomb and went to the moon can't figure out how to hold a free and fair election.

Respectfully

krise madsen

Let's not exagerrate too much, ok? :-)

There have always been some issues in every election, it's just that it doesn't get much attention unless the election ends up being close.

[LesJarvis]

As a result of this thread I double checked my registration, and it turns out there was an issue with it, though not one that would have prevented me from voting. Still, it almost certainly saved me some time on election day. Thanks Angie!

[krise madsen]

Let's not exagerrate too much, ok? :-)

There have always been some issues in every election, it's just that it doesn't get much attention unless the election ends up being close.

What shocks me is exactly that it doesn't get much attention. Why isn't the cheating bugger strung up in the nearest lamp post?

Respectfully

krise madsen

[Tankero]

What shocks me is exactly that it doesn't get much attention. Why isn't the cheating bugger strung up in the nearest lamp post?

Respectfully

krise madsen

Have a look at how Edgar Allen Poe died.

[Angie Gallant]

This is the kind of thing I was worried about, (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/us/politics/09voting.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1&hp&oref=slogin) but I'll settle for having helped Les Jarvis save some time on Nov 4th.

[Ranulf]

In the article those states listed all look like states where ACORN has been very active though and under investigation. I wouldn't be surprised to see a total shitstorm of a problem figuring out who is legit and who isn't in those states. Oh, joy.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10092008/postopinion/editorials/vote_fraud_a_go_go_132852.htm

[Marged]

I wouldn't be surprised to see a total shitstorm of a problem figuring out who is legit and who isn't in those states.

I have yet to see any evidence of fraudulent voter registration leading to in person voter fraud. It doesn't automatically follow that a street level ACORN worker who submits registrations as Amanda Hugandkiss and Ben Dover is going to then use those registrations to commit in person voter fraud - the world's most inefficient way to rig an election.

What you ARE going to see is that fraudulent voter registration is going to be used as a bugaboo to disenfranchise voters.