Are You Registered?
To vote, that is. Well, are you? Today is the deadline to register to vote in California, so I thought it would be a good time to talk about voter registration, and one of the ways in which you might be prevented from voting. As I hope most of you are aware, county clerks routinely purge their voter rolls. The idea behind purging is that duplicate registrations, dead people, and so on can be removed from the list, ensuring the “one person, on vote” rule holds true.
However, as numerous news stories have shown, thousands of Americans are being illegally purged. Which is why you need to check your registration. Let me give you that link again: check your voter registration at VotePoke. It’s a very easy interface to use. Just enter your name and address, hit enter, and it will tell you if you are registered to vote.
If VotePoke thinks that you are not, it will show you how to re-register, or how to appeal a purging with your county clerk. Please, please, please pass this link on, especially to voters in swing states, since they are most at risk of being purged. People who have lost their homes due to foreclosure, minorities, and registered Democrats are most at risk of being purged in the swing states, so make sure that they don’t get left out of this critical election.
Deciding not to vote because you’re too cool and hip to participate in the democratic process is pretty lame. Not voting because you didn’t register is just stupid. Not being able to vote because you’ve been illegally removed from the voter rolls is terrifying, so please do not let it happen to you, or anyone you know. Or anyone you don’t know, for example. Let’s try and make this election as impossible to steal as possible, ok?
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