Voting

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If you, or anyone you know, has a question about where to vote in Massachusetts, go to www.thebostonchannel.com. They have a feature to help you find your polling place, including phone numbers of city clerks' offices.


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Local Elections guides

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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!

go good guys

[allli.livejournal.com]

[excerpted from a private e-mail, but thought the davis square LJ should hear it as well]

my boyfriend and i went to see howard zinn tonight and it was amazing. very well done- jimmy tingle did the intro and nice repartee between him and howard,
then 4 actors/writers read the first-person accounts of minorities, women,
labor strikers, et cetera from US history that are the meat of the book
that zinn and the editor anthony arnove compiled: _voices from a people's
history of the united states._ then a q & a session including the
audience- very interesting perspectives on how political and social change
really happens, why it keeps happening, what we might be looking forward to
tomorrow and onward.

and howard is actually quite witty. and so nicely succinct and honest.

anyway, i'm writing not just to rave about a great and inspiring night (i
bought a book, got it signed, and talked to the editor about making
connections with progressive educators- wow), but because the night sold
out so fast they are offering the whole thing again NEXT Monday, November
8th, again at 7 PM, and again at Jimmy Tingle's. It's only $10, and as
historical and political education go is well worth the bucks.

sorry for the [partisan] public service announcement. vote tomorrow. go
good guys.