Voter registration
Oct. 7th, 2006 11:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mmcirvinVia Making Light: US voter registration deadlines and links. Some of the deadlines are coming up soon, folks.
Since we just moved, we have to re-register (per Massachusetts law and the discussion that happened earlier on this LJ, we actually have a six-month grace period in which we can vote at the old place, which I did in the primary election; but I figured I should get into the habit of voting in my current precinct).
The "motor voter" law lets you register when you renew your driver's license, but contrary to what that might lead one to believe, Web-submitted changes of address with the Registry of Motor Vehicles do not affect your voter registration; and dealing with the RMV in person is like getting teeth pulled. So the easiest way for me to register was actually to figure out where City Hall was and go, not to the disgruntled-citizen-filled RMV office in the basement, but to the city clerk's office on the ground floor, where there's no waiting at all.
I guess the form available via the link here would have allowed me to register by mail—the state sent us a pamphlet with a registration form, but there are two voters here and there was just the one form.
Since we just moved, we have to re-register (per Massachusetts law and the discussion that happened earlier on this LJ, we actually have a six-month grace period in which we can vote at the old place, which I did in the primary election; but I figured I should get into the habit of voting in my current precinct).
The "motor voter" law lets you register when you renew your driver's license, but contrary to what that might lead one to believe, Web-submitted changes of address with the Registry of Motor Vehicles do not affect your voter registration; and dealing with the RMV in person is like getting teeth pulled. So the easiest way for me to register was actually to figure out where City Hall was and go, not to the disgruntled-citizen-filled RMV office in the basement, but to the city clerk's office on the ground floor, where there's no waiting at all.
I guess the form available via the link here would have allowed me to register by mail—the state sent us a pamphlet with a registration form, but there are two voters here and there was just the one form.