Had a nice evening with neighbor pals last night.We enjoyed a leisurely rush hour drive out Airline to the most old school, tacky, tasty normal Chinese restaurant left in America and had a happy evening of moo shus and kung paos.
On the way home, Neighbor A relayed an strange tale. Recently, she’d seen a “make sure you’re registered to vote” post and, on a lark, went to the Secretary of State’s voter portal and found she wasn’t registered.
This is very odd. While our state’s Republican controllers will often try postcard purges, there has been none of late. A is hardly an “inactive” voter. Like most of us, she regularly schleps to the polls for every little judgeship and charter change.
She. Just. Disappeared.
Whether her removal from the rolls was the result of a nefarious scheme or a computer hiccup, it has been remedied, but it should serve as a warning to all:
CHECK. YOUR. REGISTRATION.
Use your state’s database
or HeadCount
or RockTheVote (Note: some commenters have found Rock the Vote to be inaccurate.)
or USAGov
or NASS
or any reputable restistration-check site. Do it soon and often, and encourage friends, family and co-workers to check up as well.
Between partisan thumbs on scales, Fancy Bears and Murphy’s unsleeping Law, mysterious disappearances from the voting rolls should not be a surprise this year.