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 website has a clickable map where you can see suspected and confirmed sundown towns by state, as well as information about whether these attitudes are historical or current.
If you are white, don’t stop in any of those towns either; spend your money elsewhere.
Both displeased and completely unsurprised that my hometown’s on here, but then Oregon as a whole has a long, fucked-up history when it comes to black people. This rinkydink town has so few black families that I literally noticed when we started having black families and was like “oh shit, nobody tell the dumbass with the Confederate flag truck,” and this post drummed up so much buried worry I just googled local hate crimes just to be smacked in the face with the fact that apparently half of all hate crimes in my entire state just come from fucking Eugene, a town most folks out here in the boonies think is some sort of hyper-leftist hive mind where the college “forces tolerance” down your throat.
I guess what I’m saying is Oregon is great if you just remove all the people from it and now I’m even sadder I’m basically trapped in this dead-end dumpster corner of the valley.
This blog is mostly so I can vent my feelings and share my interests. Other than that, I am nothing special.
If you don't like Left Wing political thought and philosophy, all things related to horror, the supernatural, the grotesque, guns or the strange, then get the fuck out. I just warned you.
![ultrafacts:
“ Source: [x]
Click HERE for more facts! ”](https://64.media.tumblr.com/5f45bf09ea3df0dd535936c3f1b7e651/15aebe215b4ae2a7-22/s500x750/5814f6b9556c9bb598f6342a38afb0c86f5ecc22.png)
