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Friday, October 03, 2008
Register to Vote, Right Now, at The Beacon!
Posted by The Dean of Cincinnati
The deadline is Monday, October 6th...
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06 Oct 2008 at 07:29 pm | #
Can you really register to vote on here? A friend called me, who I advised could register on this site. They were disappointed that The Beacon simply offers the form to print out and then take to an official registration site. Is that right?
06 Oct 2008 at 08:04 pm | #
Yes, that is right. And as best I can tell, that is the best you can do online.
I was contacted by the Rock the Vote people Thursday. They said that people could register to vote if I included the line of code that makes that form appear, and they asked me to post it.
So I did.
I noticed, the next day, when playing with the form (as I am already registered), that the thing ultimately instructed you to mail the form.
Then I noticed the same interface at other “register to vote” here online type places.
So that’s as best I know how to help people online. If you have any suggestions, I’ll take them, but you should forward them to the Rock the Vote people, too—as they reach a larger audience, presumably, than I do.
07 Oct 2008 at 06:59 am | #
I didn’t investigate either because I’m registered and took you at your word. I also told a niece she could register on here. She actually didn’t get to register because I had erroneously told her she could accomplish this on the Beacon and of course she waited until the very last minute depending on this as her resource. I wish it hadn’t been misleading. I really let her down by steering her to The Beacon.
08 Oct 2008 at 07:56 pm | #
I’ve never understood these “register online” schemes- I think they’re used mainly to generate site traffic and mailing lists.
Why not just link to the Board of Elections:
http://www.hamilton-co.org/BOE/howtoreg.asp
and not take the burden of bad information upon yourself?
09 Oct 2008 at 05:06 pm | #
I can’t believe you would just post this without knowing if the outcome implied, could be accomplshed. Did you do this on purpose?