davis_square | Local Elections guides (Reply)

For anyone even considering staying home and not voting tomorrow, please consider this:

* Even if our votes may not "count" in the Electoral College, the popular vote means something to popular opinion and a president's mandate, and every single vote anywhere in the US will count towards that.

* There's a ton of local races, some very close (as mentioned in previous posts, including the Sciortino election right in Davis's backyard).

If you don't know your polling place, click here (in Somerville). There's actually all sorts of cool stuff on the Somerville website, including sample ballots and a list of all polling places by precinct.

If you don't know anything about local candidates, click here.

If you want to know about ballot initiatives (a few may affect some cambervillians) click here.

If you get to your polling place and discover you're somehow not on the voter lists, don't despair, and demand to cast a provisional ballot (from the Help America Vote Act of '02, we all have the right to cast a provisional ballot, even if our eligibility may be challenged later).

If you or anyone you know get any grief, call 1-866-OUR-VOTE.

and lastly... BRING YOUR ID!