Find out if you can vote early--good website

[eridani]

http://govote.org/

Protect the election by voting early.
Google map my early voting site!
With GoVote.org, you can avoid the lines on Election Day — just enter your ZIP code and find out if, when and where you can vote early. It's that easy!

Do you remember the news footage from the 2004 election of people waiting to vote in Ohio? The lines that snaked on for blocks as people waited in the November rain for 3, 6, even 12 hours just to vote?

Or reports of people turned away from the polls because they were purged from the list?

Could this happen in 2008? Of course it can. And the sad truth is that, in some places, it probably will.

But here's the good news: If your county has early voting, you can guarantee that it doesn't happen to you.

Do you know where to go to vote early? What time to go? What ID to bring with you? No? That's ok! In fact, that's exactly why CREDO has launched GoVote.org, a brand new website where all you have to do is enter your ZIP code, and in seconds you'll know everything you need to vote early — you'll even have a Google map to tell you exactly where to go.

When you vote early, you help the entire system to run better — fewer people waiting in line on Election Day will help the voting process to go more smoothly for everyone. And if there is a problem with your registration status, there is plenty of time to correct it before Nov. 4.

Not to mention, if you've already voted, you'll have that much more time to spend on Election Day volunteering to get out the vote.

Visit GoVote.org today, and please pass it along to everyone you know. The more of us that vote early, the more we can be sure that every vote will count on Election Day.
Thank you for working to build a better world.

Becky Bond, Political Director
CREDO Action from Working Assets

[BlooInBloo]

1. Excellent site - thanks!

[Sherman A1]

2. I would love to, but

if I vote early it is only on an electronic machine. I will have to wait for election day to be able to use the optical scan (with the paper ballot).

[eridani]

3. Can't you request a paper ballot?

What is really ridiculous is how electronic voting slows the whole process down. Ten or twenty people could vote on opscan ballots in the time it takes for one person to vote by DRE.

[Sherman A1]

4. I wish I could use paper in early voting, but

DRE's are the only option.

[eridani]

5. In what county and what state? In King County WA, they are encouraging DRE voting

But you can ask for a paper ballot and it isn't any big deal. We are 70% absentee, and those are all optically scanned anyway.

[Sherman A1]

6. St. Louis County, MO

If you vote at the election board early, it is on DRE's. Optical scan is not an option until election day.

That's their rules and that's the way it goes.

I am hoping that when I get to the polls about 2:30pm or so that the lines won't be too long. My charming employer (the folks in the Ivory Tower do truly live in a bubble) added an extra meeting at the end of the day so that will be at least an extra hour and then I have an event to attend that evening. So I am hoping to be able to grab dinner somewhere in the midst of the day.

[eridani]

7. Too late this time, but I'd raise hell about that policy next year if I were you.

I can't imagine a more seriously stupid policy. DREs dramatically slow down the entire process by conflating the fast step of tabulation with the far slower step of actually voting. All you need for optically scanned ballots is a flat surface somewhere in the polling place, and of course a secure method of storage until they get counted centrally.