You should check to confirm you haven’t been thrown off the voting rolls. Demand that your friends and relations in swing states do so as well.
VotePoke.org will let you do it without having to go to the State-by-State websites. It asks for an e-mail address, but I’ve received no spam from them.
You can also go directly to your State’s way of checking. After the jump are the relevant procedures for a collection of crucial states.
Washington has a website.
For Florida, you must call your local election office.
Virginia has a website.
Colorado has a website.
For Ohio, you have to call your local board of elections.
New Mexico has a website.
Nevada has a website.
For Minnesota, you must call your local election officer. (PDF list.)
Michigan has a website.
Missouri has a website.
I like how it lists all the elections you have participated in (for Washington voters)
you mean I don’t have to worry about my WAMU account anymore –
What should one do in the case their registrations actually are thrown out? In other words, who do we throw a fit at?
Here’s NC’s: http://www.sboe.state.nc.us/VoterLookup.aspx
Here’s GA: http://sos.georgia.gov/elections/polllocator/PollLocator.aspx
/Off topic/
@ Jonathan Golob,
I sent this to the dearscience e-mail moniker, but I’m not sure it went through:
Why are we tired after a plane flight or car trip? We haven’t really done any physical activity, so why are we exhausted?
I’ve been wondering this forevs. Muchas gracias.
@2: Especially now that it’s a JP Morgan Chase US Treasury Account now!
Did you know that JP Morgan Chase already required a $25bn equity infusion from the Feds? And the bonds they’re holding that are backed by Alt-A mortgages are about to be downrated, again?
Neat-o!
Jonathan Golob @ 7,
I’d say that if you look under the hood of any major financial institution these days, you’re gonna find something you don’t like. It’s why Comrades Bush, Paulson and Bernanke have nationalized the financial system.
And their argument that they’re socializing the “free markets” to save them is some of the most insane bullshit we’ve heard in our lifetimes. Aren’t they openly admitting then that their “free market” economic ideology is fundamentally flawed and won’t work?
I just checked my wife’s status, which was “inactive”.
For anyone else that runs into this: according to WA state law, as long as you vote on Nov. 4th you will be returned to “active” status:
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=29A.08.630
Please correct me if I’m wrong.
/Bill
People who registered (or changed registration from one county to another) within a week of the October 6 deadline are reporting that they don’t appear in the online database. Is there a possibility of checking with the Sec of State’s office and getting a blanket statement on whether this is a volume-of-data-entry issue?
No one’s kicked me off yet.
Thanks, guys! I had called in to Indiana and _should_ have been fine, but it was nice to know for sure. =)
Votepoke says I may not be registered, even though I clearly am and just verified on our state website just to be sure.
Stupid Votepoke.
Same thing happened to me @13.
I got my absentee ballot….but Votepoke says I’m not registered.
I’m registered. Oh yeah baby.