Register to Vote

NOW! Some states make it easy, some deceptively difficult so I have all my materials at hand and will stop by first thing in the morning and apply in person after trying to do so by mail and not trusting the process. This is a contentious state and they are making me sign that I don’t intend to move! Hey, if my husband is laid off or finds a better job in a new city of course we’ll move. I don’t see that happening, but what a crazy question to answer in a rust belt state.

If you’re a steelworker or work in our local breweries or paper mills, if you’re laid off will you move where you can get another job to feed your family? Heck, yeah. So why, when registering to vote, do you have to promise not to move? Because of carpetbagger politicians coming in and taking away votes from the locals. Think Kennedy, 1960 election. Think Bobby Kennedy planning for 1968 when he moved to NYC to become senator. And they were assassinated. Don’t want that.

These rules should not apply to everyday citizens who have no thoughts to move in a year or two or five or fifty. There is no enforcement. If I vote and leave five years from now how can you come after me and say I reneged on my promise?

Anyhoo, as my dear aunt would say, please register to vote. Your voice must be heard. I’m going to HQ tomorrow morning and submitting all my information so that I’ll be able to go to whatever polling place they assign me (I’m new here) and vote. Thank you, in the spirit of the classic film “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Dee