not registered in dc even though i once was - now what? is it too late for me to vote tomorrow?

[Anonymous]

i called the voting office but i can't get through to ask...

[Anonymous]

If you were once registered, you should still be on the rolls. Go to this site and check your registration status: http://www.dcboee.org/voter_info/reg_status/ Use the zip code where you lived when you registered.

If you're on-- and you should be, because no one gets un-registered, even if you move somewhere else for a while-- then one of two things happen. If you're still at that old address, vote there. If you're not, go to your new polling place (find it on the DCBOEE site also) and tell them that you moved and need to do a special ballot. You will still vote in the voting booth.

Hope that this helps.

[Anonymous]

Sorry, OP, but I can't help but asking, as my mother would say, why are you just thinking about this now? Did the election sneak up on you?

[Anonymous]

Actually I did get unregistered and only found out about when I went to vote. I think it had to do with the year I moved my primary residency to our house in Fburg for a year and so switched my registration to Virginia. Then I switched it back to DC at my new address when I returned but the notification of my voting in VA must have gotten to DC after that because they took me off the friggin' rolls the year after I had already voted at that address. Talk about a shock!

When stuff like this happens, they let you vote by provisional ballot. I think you can follow up to find out if it was counted.

Good luck!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, OP, but I can't help but asking, as my mother would say, why are you just thinking about this now? Did the election sneak up on you?

there's always at least one asshole on this board at any given time... well i've lived here and never moved out of the city since i last voted so i didn't think it was an issue. i did move from a different part of dc though. i thought i would just check today just for the heck of it and i went online to check my status and they couldn't find me. not sure why?

[Anonymous]

They couldn't find me, either, and then I did a cross check and see that somehow I am still registered to vote in another state. (went to that state's board of elections website.)

Even though I affirmatively changed my registration when I moved to DC two years ago. DC didn't feel like recording that, I guess.

I am going to vote provisionally, I guess, but this does not give me a lot of confidence about the ability of DC to run an election. And then it gets me thinking about *other* states, where at least the vote for Pres. actually might be decisive. I know here in DC my vote for Pres. will NOT be decisive, but I'm still irked.

[Anonymous]

But your vote in the At-Large Council race could be decisive so everyone do go and vote!