User: violetisblue Date: 06 Oct 2008 17:13 (UTC) Subject: (no subject) Keyword: Violet Is Alinsky

For Indiana residents: This site will tell you if your registration is current (the second link above only covers Marion County) and where your polling place is located.

Edited at 2008-10-06 05:19 pm (UTC)

User: dakiwiboid Date: 06 Oct 2008 18:44 (UTC) Subject: I don't think the Missouri info is going to be reliable Keyword: Rosie_the_Riveter

Here in St. Louis County, the Board of Elections has been receiving registrations at a prodigious rate (over 5,000 a week). They're working 12-hour shifts to keep up at present. Although it is currently possible to look up one's registration at the Secretary of State's website, I wouldn't really count on the online data there being up to date. You can try calling the Board at 314-615-1800, but they're really busy, and it may be hard to get anyone to look up the info for you, alas.

jonquil knows this, but others reading this do not. I take a day off several times a year to work as an election supervisor myself, so I know from direct experience about the regularity of updates to the voter database.

They do try, but I still anticipate spending at least five of the sixteen hours I'm on duty on November 4th just filling out voter affidavits so that people will be able to vote from new addresses.

One of my primary jobs as an election supervisor is ensuring that as many people get to vote as possible, here's how I proceed. If someone's not in the precinct binder, I make certain they're in the right place to begin with. (It's amazing how often people go to the wrong polling place.) We have the voter database loaded on a Palm Pilot (I know, I know. Old tech!), so we check there for the polling place and see what address we have for the voter. If the voter's in the Palm Pilot for our polling place, I help the voter fill out an affidavit, and the voter gets to vote.

If the voter isn't in the Palm Pilot or book, I call the Board. Again, after a confirmation, the affidavit lets the voter proceed or sends him or her elsewhere. I also fill out affidavits if the person's name is wrong or changed, or if there's a little error in the book (wrong apartment number, as happened in the last election). If he or she isn't registered, the person at the Board tells me. (I don't let the voter talk to the Board. The voter could tell me anything.) In my experience so far, this seldom happens.

If the voter isn't registered at all, there's one more resort. That's casting a provisional ballot. Don't forget about this option. There's about a 20% chance that the vote won't go through, but if you're between a rock and a hard place, it's worth the risk. I feel bad about having to do these, because of the chance that they'll fail, but it's better than not voting at all, my friends.

User: cesario Date: 06 Oct 2008 20:47 (UTC) Subject: (no subject) Keyword: [random] Obamas

Gosh, I wonder if it's a coincidence that the three counties liste for North Carolina are the three overwhelmingly democratic areas of an otherwise fire engine red state?

If I already got my card in the mail, am I safe, or is it possible I've been purged anyway?