!!!IMPORTANT FOR BLACK US VOTERS!!!
I saw this on Facebook and went to check my registration status, sure it was fine because I voted recently, but I put in the info and it said I’m not registered
PLEASE, especially if you’re a Black voter, check your registration status at vote.org
Know your status
Does your last name sound anything like Lopez, Martinez, or Rodriguez? Mine does. When I saw this post I checked my voter registration status online with my state. Despite registering just three months ago, I was no longer registered to vote, and I did not receive my ballot. If you live in a mail-in voting state and you didn’t get your ballot, contact your county election official/county clerk for a replacement.
Make sure you check with your state’s voting site as well. I just had the shit scared out of me because that website said I was registered, but when I checked my state’s site (and made sure I had the right county selected) it said I was registered.
It’s worth checking your state’s site every few months anyway (especially when any election is coming up).
Texas is definitely purging voters. They’re also making it harder to re-register if they purged you. I hate that this is true, but POC will need to check and check frequently to stay registered in Texas.
College students, too. In the 2014 election, I had to vote in San Marcos, and I can’t tell you how many Texas State students were turned away because they didn’t cross all the t’s and dot all the i’s on getting their registration transferred and current.
i use a site called TurboVote run by a nonprofit that sends me reminders based on where im registered to vote before every election. it sends me an email to remind me to check my registration, to apply for absentee ballots, etc. it’s helpful so that you can check if you’ve been purged regularly (and participate in the local races that never get any publicity); https://turbovote.org/
Please register and check with your town/city hall often to make sure you are still registered. Please vote.
THIS IS A REMINDER
You have about two months to make sure you’re registered to vote by mail in the US.
The 45 administration is also currently trying to undermine voting by mail. You can still request your ballot and with the pandemic I HIGHLY encourage you to do so but you can also consider finding a ballot drop box, drop of your ballot at an election office or your polling station, or see if your state allows community ballot collection groups. You can also try to vote early in person, or try election day if you’re feeling safe enough.
We’ve already lost 160k+ lives to a pandemic, have concentration camps at our southern border, and bipoc and lgbt peoples being disproportionately targeted and murdered. We NEED a roadblock. I’m personally not happy at all with the Dem ticket but there is no third party hail mary. THEY are the hail mary whether we like it or not. Things are just going to get worse if 45 and the GOP remain in power. We need to slow the train before we can throw it into reverse.
Please vote.
