For next month’s general election, the deadline to register to vote is today in D.C. (elections office open until 7 p.m.) and Virginia (5 p.m.). Maryland has until Tue., Oct. 12.
As you may know, for a while now I’ve been living in Virginia de facto with Thom, but only now am I starting the process of slowly moving out of the District officially. A couple of weeks ago I sent my voter registration application to the local Arlington elections office, and shortly thereafter my voter card arrived. It’s kind of refreshing to have actual issues (albeit a handful) on the ballot; in the few D.C. elections that I’ve voted in, there wasn’t much to vote on at all. Gee, thanks a lot, federal government. (I’m reminded of my years in California, where usually there’d be so many propositions on the ballot that the voter booklet had the heft of a good-sized magazine and often required considerable study.)
Anyway, there’s less than a month to go before the election. Make sure you’re registered!
Since my young Republican nephew, at 18 voting in his first election this year, will cancel out my ballot for Kerry, it’s also nice to have you potentially moving Virginia one vote closer to sanity.