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Open Thread: Voter Information At Your Fingertips

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I had asked in the comments a few days ago if anyone had a site where you could check your voter registration without entering your email. I wanted to post on FB and I knew I had some folks who would be reluctant to give their email, knowing they’d be inundated with donation and other requests.

Turns out the League of Women Voters have just such a site.

From Vote411.org  you can register to vote, check your voter registration and see what’s on your ballot, with signing up for unwanted emails.

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Here’s a big puppy trying and succeeding to fit into the smallest place possible (my spot, btw).

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  1. 1.

    debbie

    That sleeping pose hurts my back just to see it, but as long as he’s comfy… ?

    My county board of elections website doesn’t require an email, fyi.

  3. 3.

    TaMara (HFG)

    @debbie: that’s really not going to help my FB friends now, is it. ?

    He amazes me how he sleeps. sometimes he’ll curl up into the tiniest ball of black fur, and then other times, he’s on his back, stretched the length of the couch. legs stretched up into  the air, looking much like a deceased cockroach. Tongue hanging out.  He a goof.

  6. 6.

    joel hanes

    We need to tell the Democratic Party that in future years, the primary debates must be conducted by The League of Women Voters (if the LoWV will consent to do so.)

    (I’ve recently been informed that the League ran the Presidential debates, but when the Dems and the GOP combined forces to tell the League that they must stop including third-party candidates, the League said “we will not do that”, and that’s how the media bobbleheads got the gig instead)

  8. 8.

    Jinchi

    California has an official site that uses your ID or license number and will allow you to check registration, register, change party membership and check status of your mail-in ballot. I just used it to confirm that my ballot was received back at the county office after I voted.

    https://voterstatus.sos.ca.gov/

  10. 10.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    What is that old joke? Academic politics are so vicious because the stakes are so small.

    The “academic novel” is a genre, so this could turn out all right. Sandra Oh is a good sign.

  11. 11.

    evap

    Georgia is the same.  You just input your county, name, and birth date and they’ll tell you if you’re registered and give you the status of an absentee ballot application.  Plus you can get a pdf of your ballot, I like to print it out and take some time to figure out who I’m voting for in the local elections before I go to the polls.  https://www.mvp.sos.ga.gov/MVP/mvp.do

  12. 12.

    evap

    I believe the quote is:  The lower the stakes, the worse the politics.  The stakes are lowest in academia.

    I work in academia and I’d say this is spot on, and in my experience the humanities are the worst.

  15. 15.

    chris

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: Thanks, I’ve passed this to my sister who was chair of a university English department. Her stories are hilarious and she says that she can’t talk about the best ones.

  16. 16.

    TaMara (HFG)

    I guess I wasn’t clear – I wanted a generic site anyone could use to check their voter registration. Since I have FB contacts all over the country.  I’m sure everyone’s county has a way to check voter registration, but that was not my issue. I was doing a generic GOTV, so everyone could check.

    Since people are getting purged regularly I think it’s important to remind friends and family to check regularly.

  21. 21.

    mrmoshpotato

    Dammit.  Now I have that “I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my bones” song from Love Actually in my head.

  23. 23.

    wmd

    Debates were a lot more issue based when League of Women Voters ran them. It’s almost as if baiting candidates for attacks is good for network ratings, while LWV just wanted voters to be informed.

  24. 24.

    Brachiator

    @wmd:

    Debates were a lot more issue based when League of Women Voters ran them. It’s almost as if baiting candidates for attacks is good for network ratings, while LWV just wanted voters to be informed.

    The political parties dumped the League of Women Voters.

    The League continued to sponsor the presidential and vice presidential debates every four years through the 1984 elections. Following that election cycle, the Democratic and Republican national parties came together in a decision to move sponsorship of the debates under the purview of the parties.

    The political parties wanted to controlled the debates and ended up getting played by the networks. Or maybe the parties think that there is an advantage in doling out dumbed down debates.

    The media is not nearly as powerful as some people want to believe.

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