A LOT of states (and DC!) hit their by-mail voter registration postmark deadlines at the end of today. Is yours one of them? If you still need to register, meet us over at vote.org/register-to-vote now!
Also: early voting begins today in Maine, Montana, Nebraska, and New Mexico!
Not registered to vote? That’s ok if you live in Colorado, DC, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, or Wyoming. You can register AND cast your vote on election day tomorrow!
It’s technically not too late to get an absentee ballot in Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
But you should get on it if your need one; the election is next Tuesday.
Monday is the deadline to register to vote in Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Michigan, Montana, Kentucky, Ohio, Louisiana, Washington State, and DC.
Don’t miss out! Complete our voter registration form, and then print, sign, and mail it in today: http://www.longdistancevoter.org/register-to-vote
Citizens of Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Washington DC, Wisconsin, and Wyoming:
Even if you’re not registered to vote yet, those 10 places allow ELECTION DAY REGISTRATION. There’s no reason to not vote tomorrow!
Find your polling place and VOTE: https://www.google.com/elections/ed/us/vote
Reason 95,802 why you should vote: The close Senate races!
As I updated the polling data for our countmore.org tiers today, my inner nerd could not help but twitch in excitement over the latest polls. Yes, the polls for president are tightening up all across the country, but so are the polls for the Senate races. In fact, just today, the state of North Dakota joined our “close Senate race” list, which means we bump the state up a tier. In some states, the polling margins between the Senate candidates - per fivethirtyeight.com - are so razor-thin, there’s great potential these races will be decided by only a few handfulls of votes (looking at you Flake v. Carmona in Arizona, and Rehberg v. Tester in Montana). Talk about a competitive election year! I am officially out of fingernails to bite…
It’s just a great reminder how your vote can truly make a difference this November, in more ways than just on the presidential level. And it’s also a great reminder on how awesome countmore.org is. Obviously, you’ve checked it out by now, right?… Right??!!
The election to revise your state forms for!
Is it just us, or is every state and their dog updating all their laws and revising all their forms just before an epic presidential election? (Hint: it’s not just us.) This really seems like a bad idea.
One of the difficulties we face is making sure our forms are up-to-date. We make it harder for ourselves by hosting the forms on our site instead of linking to the state pages, but, let’s face it, states change their site urls like once a day and never remember to redirect the paths (if you don’t believe me, I can print you a copy of one of our weekly broken link checks).
We just finished our second form sweep of the year and I’ve never seen so many outdated forms. We found 11 states (namely, Colorado, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, Oregon, Virgina, Washington, and Wyoming) that have either a voter registration application or absentee ballot application with a revised date in either June or July of this year.
I mean, seriously. They really needed to wait until this close to the election to update those forms? And not to pick on anyone, but Kansas updated a form that wasn’t even 3 months old. And Colorado, Kansas, Indiana, and New Jersey all decided now would be a good time to not update just one form, but completely clean house.
Here’s an idea: why not wait until after a huge national election to make minor changes to forms that could result in people’s applications being rejected? It’s just good manners.