Vote Tomorrow (and say hi if you're in Teele)

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Don't forget to vote tomorrow! Polls are open 7am to 8pm.

If you are not sure whether you are registered or what your status is, you can call your local city hall and find out. Some numbers for that:
Somerville: 617-625-6600
Cambridge: 617-349-4361
Boston: 617-635-4635

If you need to know where to vote, you can look here for Somerville addresses or here for anywhere in Massachusetts.

If you are voting at the Teele Square Fire Station, say hi! I am working the polls and will be there all day (excepting a couple of breaks).
[ETA: My official title is "Inspector" and it would be fabulous if visitors could address me as such, with appropriate French accent and rolled R and all. :]


Some notes:

* In Massachusetts you can vote in the primary if you're registered as a Democrat, a Republican, or if you're unenrolled or independent. If you're registered as a Democrat or a Republican, you can only vote in that primary. If you're unenrolled/independent, you can pick a ballot for either primary at your polling location. Voting in the primary does not change your party status--i.e., you'll still be an independent when you're done voting.

* If you are in line or in the process of voting when the polls close, you still have the right to vote. Just stay in line.

* If you registered to vote, but your name does not appear on the voter list, you still have the right to vote. If this happens to you, ask the poll workers for a provisional ballot. You should be prepared to provide proof of identity and address with a driver's license, state ID, or passport.

* If you recently moved, and did not re-register with your new address before January 16th, you will probably need to vote at your former address's polling place. And then remember to re-register to update your address.

* If your right to vote is challenged for any reason, you have the right to know the reason and the right to vote by provisional ballot.

* If you witness any voting irregularities, take note. Document if you have a camera. Get the names of the folks around you who also witnessed it. Then either let me know or contact the campaign who might have lost out as a result.



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Comments

[ron_newman]

Thanks for posting this! I'm not sure everyone will realize there is a poll behind the LJ-cut.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Well, it does say so in the cut-text. It's a pretty long poll to have un-cut, I think.

[ron_newman]

The second link is wrong (and my apologies if I'm the one who gave it to you). Should be this.

[desiringsubject.livejournal.com]

Thanks! The somerville link didn't work for me. (I know where I vote, so it's no problem for me...) I put in my house and it wouldn't tell me ward or precinct or nuthin'. Just the assessment value of my house. Which is actually interesting to me, since I rent, I had no idea what the house was worth!

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Oops, fixed. I'd accidentally used the URL from the results page instead of the search.

[ron_newman]

Call the Election Department and let them know. If they find out immediately they may be able to fix it in time for the election.

[ron_newman]

Sure. I must have missed the second line of cut-text (or you added it).

[ron_newman]

And if you use that URL, you get this wonderfully informative error message:

Alert

We have experienced the following problem while trying to process your search:

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[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

How odd! It didn't give you your trash day or the other info either? Did the general MA page work?

(FYI, don't put much stock in that assessment number. While there is a chance it might bear some resemblance to current market value, the info for my place certainly did not.)

[cos]

I wish there were an "I am not eligible to vote" option, separate from the more general "I will not be voting" which could mean several other things.

[cos]

It's very picky about exact forms of street names. For example, "Powder House" needs to be two words with a space. Also, you can't type the Street/Road/Way/... part in the field, you have to choose it from the menu.

[cos]

Add to your list:

* If you recently moved, and did not re-register with your new address before January 16th, you will probably need to vote at your former address's polling place. And then remember to re-register to update your address.

[desiringsubject.livejournal.com]

Nope, didn't give me anything. The general MA page worked fine. I think that it's a nifty service! I grew up in an apartment building in NYC and never knew about stuff like "trash days." I mean there is one, of course, but you don't interact with it personally in a 20+ unit building. And my first apartment was in a 300+ unit building, so, again, there were people hired by the building to do stuff. Apparently, to people used to the more typical kinds of housing around here, this sounds like I had lots of money growing up, because there were people hired to put my trash on the curb. But no, that's just the reality of multi-multi family dwellings!

[on-reserve.livejournal.com]

Polls OPEN AT 7 AM! :)

election protection

[cos]

Also, the national election protection hotline I volunteered for in 2004 is still active and staffed with lawyers and other helpful people. 866-OUR-VOTE.

[ron_newman]

and CLOSE AT 8 PM. Could the OP please add this information? Thanks.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Was already in the middle of it. Done.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

True. And I forgot to put in Still Undecided. I was apparently at the limit, though I imagine I could have lumped the Greens together to no significant effect.

[ron_newman]

Alan Keyes is not on the Massachusetts Republican primary ballot. Here's the list of all candidates on the Democratic, Republican, and Green-Rainbow ballots. Many of them have dropped out since the ballot deadline.

Except for Cynthia McKinney (former Congresswoman from Georgia) and Ralph Nader, I've never heard of the Green-Rainbow candidates.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Dangit, I was looking for something like that but failed to find it, so I went with other sources regarding the current active candidates.

(I purposely left off candidates that have dropped out.)

[cutieperson]

try putting in the other apartment number for your building. it only lists the info under one, not both.

[ron_newman]

By the way, I'm on tomorrow's ballot, as a candidate for the Ward 6 Democratic Committee. Please vote for me ;-)

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Very cool!

Unfortunately, I now live in the wilds of Ward 7.

[ron_newman]

However, you get to pick between two different slates for Democratic Ward Committee. Almost nobody in your ward is expecting to see this contest when they take their ballot tomorrow. Here's your sample ballot - unfortunately a 7 meg PDF that loads very slowly. Please consider voting for Group 2 before selecting other names from Group 1.

Sample Ballots

[ron_newman]

Sample ballots for each ward and precinct can be found here. Unfortunately, these are huge PDFS that do not load very fast.