It’s like voting more than once



One person, one vote. That’s what you learn about our democracy — each person gets one vote. But there is a way to, in essence, vote more than once; to amplify your vote: register others to vote and make sure they DO vote.

That’s the Obama campaign’s single-minded goal for the next 42 days.

Today is National Voter Registration Day and it’s a fine day to dust off your GOTV shoes and go out to register some voters. The voter registration deadlines are looming so time is running out. A list of voter registration deadlines by state can be found HERE. Need more information on voting in your area? The Obama campaign has put together a terrific website called WWW.GottaVote.Com that has all of the resources you could hope to find.

While I suspect most Eclectablog readers are already registered, if not or if you know somebody that needs to get registered, you can use this handy dandy widget and a voter registration application will be mailed to your house with complete instructions on how to fill it out and return it:

Finally, once you are registered, VOTE EARLY! There are three rock-solid reasons for doing this: