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Registered to vote, by the skin of my teeth!

Posted: October 7th, 2008, 6:05 am
by A2JGirl
The deadline totally snuck up on me! I was registered to vote, but in the wrong county, since we moved in March.

After a bunch of running around and hoopla, Cats directed me to the Post Office at the Nashville Airport, it's open until midnight. So hubby met me there after his school and we got our registrations postmarked at 8:30 last night!

That was close! I told my husband that if we weren't able to register to vote, I would feel forever responsible if Obama is elected president (I don't even like to type those words!) and FQ would belittle us on Jude2 since he knew about it. LOL!

Posted: October 7th, 2008, 8:30 am
by rough_rider
Last week we stopped in at the board of election and voted early... :)

Re: Registered to vote, by the skin of my teeth!

Posted: October 7th, 2008, 7:09 pm
by pastorables
A2JGirl wrote:The deadline totally snuck up on me! I was registered to vote, but in the wrong county, since we moved in March.



We were told locally that the deadline to register in Alabama is within ten days of election. Are deadlines for voting regional or is there a national law?

pa

Re: Registered to vote, by the skin of my teeth!

Posted: October 8th, 2008, 2:06 am
by crispfin
pastorables wrote:
A2JGirl wrote:The deadline totally snuck up on me! I was registered to vote, but in the wrong county, since we moved in March.



We were told locally that the deadline to register in Alabama is within ten days of election. Are deadlines for voting regional or is there a national law?

pa

Since our deadline was on Monday the 6th, I'd believe they were regional.

Posted: October 8th, 2008, 2:23 am
by deb
Here is an interesting state by state guide - they are all different:

http://www.declareyourself.com/voting_faq/state_by_state_info_2.html

For the state of VA on the deadline day of 10/6 there were already more than 306,000 new voters in Virginia since the beginning of the year, according to the State Board of Elections. (This figure wouldn't include the ones who registered the last day). Of the new voters already registered, 42 percent were under the age of 25.