Are You Registered To Vote?
 

For TFPers in the United States - are you registered to vote?

If you are, good for you....and I hope you vote on November 2nd. :)

If you're not, and you'd like to, I've found a fantastic Voter guide. It's a compilation of resources which is much easier to understand than previous voter guides on other sites.

The deadline to vote in many states is as early as October 2nd - that's Saturday!

I don't intend for this to become a political discussion - there's another board for that - but more of a resource for those who would like to vote but just don't know exactly where to start, or find all the information too confusing.

Voters Information Guide For The 2004 Election

Yes. me, sus, and mimi are registered. Our state's web site provides info and online forms. Most states do as well.

Here in KY, when you get or renew your driver's license you're automatically registered. A brilliant idea.

Myself and nearly everyone I know. :)

This will be my first Presidential voting experience. I've voted for everything else, but never a President. I was old enough to vote in the 2000 elections, but just didn't give a shit. What a waste, huh?

i'm registered. I even re-registered just incase they took me off the list or something.. Since it's been 2 years since I last registered and I haven't voted at all since...

I need to tell Will to register :T

I am and I do!

Thanks for the reminder. A lot of people gave up their life and liberty so we could have this right.

Absentee ballotter here.. just once in my life I'd love to be able to use a voting booth -- one of these days.. But yah. I'm registered... (You don't register, you can't vote, you can't vote, you have no right at all to complain about anything regarding the government)

I am registered, and I also spend about 4 hours a week getting people registered. On Friday night, I know many college campuses, or at least ASU, are holding huge voter registration parties on campus to get people signed up before the deadline the next day. So if you're on a college campus and not registered, register to vote and have fun!

So true.

Registered and voting, as always.


B.

Been registered to vote as long as I have been legally able :thumbsup:

U know it like a poet. I'll be damned if I let another election be decided by the Supreme Court!

registered to vote this year and doing absentee ballot so there's no voting machine problems(that and I'm in another state right now).

yeah, i'm a little concerned about this new electronic voting thing. absentee is a good way to go.

Registered and waiting for november! Cant wait for the first debate this week.

I've been registered since '88, and haven't missed one election.

Registered...ready and waiting :)

Yes I am and I'm eager to vote!

Bush, Kerry, or Nader? I just can't decide....yet :)

Registered and voting, ever since I turned 18 in 2000.

take your time, you've got a while to decide --

Debates thursday night - -tune in to that to help you along...

I think I'm registered, but not sure. Is there anyway to find out?

Hell yeah, Bush is goin down baby!!!!!!

I was walking out of the post office and a young lady with a clipboard accosted me and forced me to register against my will. It would have been almost traumatic if it hadn't been so easy (30 seconds of writing my name, address, and political affiliation).

If you find the website for your state's Secretary of State, they should have a registered voters thing on there somewhere, where you could probably check.

You know, there are other candidates

yes. yes there are.

Flood of New US Voters

Flood of new US voters sign up
By Robert Tanner in New York
September 28, 2004
NEW US voters are flooding local election offices with paperwork, registering in significantly higher numbers than four years ago as interest in the presidential election runs high and an array of activist groups recruit would-be voters who could prove critical come November 2.

Cleveland has seen nearly twice as many new voters register so far as compared with 2000; Philadelphia is having its biggest boom in new voters in 20 years; and counties are bringing in temporary workers and employees from other agencies to help process all the new registration forms.

Nationwide figures aren't yet available, but anecdotal evidence shows an upswing in many places, often urban but some rural.

Some wonder whether the new voters - some of whom sign up at the insistence of workers paid by get-out-the-vote organisations - will actually make it to the polls on Election Day, but few dispute the registration boom.

"We're swamped," said Bob Lee, who oversees voter registration in Philadelphia. "It seems like everybody and their little group is out there trying to register people."

Some examples, from interviews with state and county officials across the country:

- New registered voters in Miami-Dade County, a crucial Florida county in 2000, grew by 65 per cent through mid-September, compared with 2000.

- New registered voters jumped nearly 150 per cent in Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) in Ohio, one of the most hard-fought states this year.

And that's with weeks left until registration deadlines fall, beginning in October.

Curtis Gans at the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate said a clear national picture won't emerge until more applications are processed next month.

And Kay Maxwell of the League of Women Voters cautioned that some years that promise a boom in new voters turn out to be duds on Election Day.

The danger is that new voters may not be as committed to showing up at the polls as longtime voters.

"Turning people out to vote is tougher than getting them to register," said Doug Lewis, who works with local election officials as head of The Election Centre, a nonprofit group.

Rural areas, which tend to be conservative and Republican, aren't necessarily reporting the same growth as urban, more liberal and Democratic strongholds: Brazos County, Texas, hasn't beaten its 2000 numbers so far, though officials said applications are now rolling in. The state of Oklahoma, however, saw new registrations in July and August increased by 60 per cent compared with four years ago.

Oklahoma officials said they had 16,000 new Republican registrations, 15,000 new Democrats and 3500 new independents. In Oregon, where new registrations grew by 4 per cent from January through September 1, Democrats outregistered Republicans two-to-one.

Lewis and others say that no matter what the partisan breakdown, the registration boom is real - driven by a swarm of organisations such as Smack Down Your Vote (a professional wrestling-connected campaign), Hip-Hop Team Vote, traditional groups like the League of Women Voters; party-aligned groups such as America Coming Together, made up of deep-pocketed Democrats; and many, many more.

"There seem to be hundreds of them," Ms Maxwell said.

The groups' focus is on states where the vote was close in 2000, but even in several states where the election isn't as competitive, officials say they are seeing new voters register in higher numbers.

Officials in El Paso County, Texas, Maryland's Montgomery County, a suburb of Washington, and California's Los Angeles County said registration numbers were on pace to be higher than 2000.

In many jurisdictions, administrators complain that the crush of new registrations is overloading staff.

Clerks have hired extra workers in West Virginia, Ohio and Colorado. Philadelphia borrowed employees from other city agencies and started working overtime two months earlier than the usual post-Labor Day push.
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That's actually kinda neat, as ugly as this campaign has been, it's great to see people actually getting off their butts and registering -- now tehy just have to take those butts to the voting booth.

<--- Registered voter since 1980. :D

wow, i've been putting off registering but i guess i only got til saturday. thanks.

I'm really happy to see so many people registered to vote. Of course, the next step is making sure that you DO vote on that day. :)

From JustVote.org:

I'm registered, but I've since moved. My official address (on my drivers license) is still my parents house. Will I have to vote in that district? Or can I vote where I live now, or closer to work?

I think I remember back in 2000 getting a card in the mail telling me where I could vote. I didn't get one this time. Of course I'd imagine the booths will be at the same place.

you will probably need to file a change of address - if you go to the League of Women voters site (it's one of the most comprehensive) they'll tell you what you need to do.

Yeah, but then I'll have to change my license, and my checks all have my old address and such. I'll most likely be moving again early next year and I don't want to change all of that again.

I'll give a call to the number quadro provided tonight and find out :)

You can always vote absentee in the district you are currently registered in, Averett.

<------Registered to vote at 18!!!!

Been registered since the day I turned 18. I've voted in every election, primary and special election since then. My family has always been politically active.

Yep, both my wife and I are registered and looking forward to voting. This will be both of our first times voting, though I could have last election if I'd have voted absentee. I guess I'm glad I didn't, since at the time I'd have probably voted for the douche we've got in office right now.

Jason

Registered to vote, and wouldn't miss voting in this United States Presidential election for anything. Americans are so fortunate to have a voice.

There are so many reasons I'm registered and ready. Bring that booth on mofos!
There is NO WAY I will miss voting this year.

Not Registered, Never voted. I've got till Monday here. I'm sorely tempted to actually bother...I hate Bush and Ashcroft that much, more Ashcroft than Bush but he's not much better. And no, I'm not trying to start a politics war, just saying what has made me actually consider registering since my turning 18 in the early 90s.

woot friend of mine got 87 people registered this week.. mostly post grads from highschool last year and community old folks that didnt have a clue they could register and vote by not leaving the "home" he isnt that against the law? granted this "home" is for elderly that are "with it" somehow i think its against the law keeping them in the dark. many of them were estatic that they could still sign up to vote.

woa, I almost forgot. thanks for the heads up.

I need to get all of my friends to go today.