September is Re-Registration Month

[SoCalDem]

The news is awash with voting "irregularities".

What if we made September RE-registration month. It's well before the 30 day "deadline" that lots of states have, and it would remind people who have not voted "in a while", to check their status.

It's not that hard to make a quick trip to (or call..if that's allowed) the registrars' office.

I don't think it's illegal to ask the counter person to provide you with "proof" that you are registered..(most places have photo copiers)..

If they give you tangible, written , or photocopied proof, just fold that baby up and put it in your wallet/purse..

If it turns out that you are NOT registered, ...well you can do it right there and then...

Finding out that you are not registered...in September...is not that big of a problem.....Finding out on election day, IS...

Ask your high-school-senior kids if they and their friends are registered (must be 18 by election day)...Offer to take them with you ..:)

If you or your friends know of people who were "dropped" or if motor-voter has failed to register them, CALL YOUR NEWSPAPER.. Insist that they do an article about voting "problems" in your paper..

If it's not too late to suggest polling places, ask to have nursing homes added as polling places.. That would solve a problem for some of the older folks who have a hard time getting to the polls, and they could use the visitors :)

[prodigal_green]

1. Great idea!

I re-register every year anyway, just to be sure.

[Kazak]

2. I'm all in favor...

When I turned up to vote (for Gore) in 2000, I found that I had been purged from the roll...in OKLAHOMA!!!

:grr:

[elehhhhna]

3. Here in Tom Delays district--

in 2000, motor-voter somehow got the husbands registered but not the wives (this happened to me & several neighbors in our sorta-centrtist subdivision). Coincidence?

The cornhilio voting judge in the Kennebunkport Sweatshirt was no help, either...

BTW, when he wears that shirt this year (as a polling judge), what do I do? Who so I call, etc?

[SoCalDem]

5. Call your local newspaper, or write a letter of complaint

to the civil rights commission. They are always looking for "voting oddities"..

Make a stink ..The repubes have gotten to where they are, by being vocal..and persistent:)

[blm]

4. GREAT IDEA. Sept.17 is Citizenship Day and birthday of the Constitution.

That would be the PERFECT celebration of both.