[Voterescue] Monday Feb. 4: LAST DAY TO REGISTER OR MAKE SURE YOU ARE ON THE ROLLS

[Karen Renick]

*IMPORTANT!

Monday, February 4, 2008 is THE LAST DAY TO REGISTER TO VOTE or TO CHECK 
THAT YOU ARE STILL ON THE REGISTRATION ROLLS!

Texas, as have all of the other states because of the Help America Vote 
Act (HAVA),  has been switching over all of the counties' voter 
registration data to a statewide data base and in the process, some 
eligible voters are getting "dropped off" the rolls for a variety of 
reasons.  So, it is important that you check your status no later than 
Monday if you plan to vote in the upcoming March 4, 2008 Texas Primaries.

WARNINGS!! 

1. You cannot actually register to vote online in Texas!   There is a 
form you can fill out on line, but you must print it out and deliver it 
to your county's voter registration offices or wherever else the form 
can be accepted before the deadline.

2. It has been discovered that if you go to the TX Secretary of State 
website **_http://www.sos.state.tx.us/ _**to change your voting address 
because you have moved out of one county and into another, your 
registration in your old county will be canceled and the website will 
not automatically re-register you in the new county.  You should then go 
to the website (if available) of your new county to find out how to 
register there from scratch.
However, if you have recently gotten a new drivers license at a DPS 
office **because you have moved to a new county, the DPS _is_ able to 
transfer your voter registration to the new county.  You still should 
verify with your new county that everything was done correctly.*

*If you live in Travis County, here is a link to the Travis County 
Registrar's office to find out how to register or to check your 
registration status:  
**http://www.traviscountytax.org/showVoterNameSearch.do

If you live outside of Travis County, go to the **Texas Secretary of 
State's website at _http://www.sos.state.tx.us/_ and it **will get you 
to the information about how to register or check your registration status._
 
_**If you live outside of the state of Texas, here is the website 
provided by the National Association of Secretaries of State that 
hopefully will get you to the right information about how to register or 
check your registration status:  _http://www.canivote.org/_*
*
And, finally, here is some information about voting in the March 4, 2008 
Texas Primaries found on the Texas Secretary of State's website: *

If you are a registered voter in the state of Texas, you will simply 
choose your party and vote in that party's primary.  To explain, we do 
not register by party in Texas.  One becomes "affiliated" with a party 
by voting in a party's primary and the affiliation lasts for that 
primary year.  As an example, if a voter voted in the March 2006 primary 
or April 2006 runoff primary, the voter affiliated with that party for 
the rest of that year, but on December 31, 2006 the affiliation 
expired.  The affiliation means that the person may not vote in another 
party's primary or participate in another party's convention or sign an 
independent candidate's petition for place on the ballot if the 
independent candidate's position appears on the primary ballot.  Note 
that in the general election in November, a voter may vote for whomever 
he/she wishes, regardless of how or whether he/she voted in the primary 
or runoff primary election, since all candidates are on the same ballot.

*Please pass this information on to others.
Thanks from VoteRescue.*
*
This Sunday, February 3, 2008, on VoteRescue Radio (2-4 pm CST), we will 
have on as our guest during the final segment of the show, Mike Conwell, 
who has done considerable research into the problems here in Travis 
County and in the state about the purging of eligible voters from the 
voter registration rolls.  Listen online at www.wtprn.com or visit the 
"Show Archives" at a later time.*
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