Wednesday Deadline if you want to change your voter
registration for the September primary
By Will Collette
If you are a registered Republican but want to vote in the
Democratic primary in September, or vice versa, tomorrow, Wednesday is the
deadline for you to switch your party affiliation.
At present, neither Rep. Jim Langevin nor Senator Sheldon
Whitehouse face a serious opponent in the primary, but there may be some
primary activity on the Republican side, especially for the Second District
Republican nominee.
I haven’t seen signs of primary contestants in many local
races (state Representative or Senator or the Charlestown Town Council), but
the deadline for candidate declarations is not until June 27.
To change your voter registration – or if (shame on you)
you’re not registered to vote – get yourself down to Charlestown Town Hall and
talk to our Town Clerk Amy Rose Weinreich.
NOTE: at the June 11 Town Council meeting, the Council
adopted a resolution to require voters to show voter ID when they vote on local
ballot questions (such as our recent June 4 vote on the Town budget). Under Rhode Island ’s
unnecessary and stupid Voter ID law, local elections were not covered.
I am hoping that the Voter ID law, which is generally a
cause for conservatives who want to suppress the votes of low-income, elderly
or minority voters, get bit in the ass by it. In south coastal Rhode Island , our town
voter registration numbers tend to exceed the actual number of people eligible
to vote, often by large margins.
The over-the-top numbers in Westerly ,
Block Island, Jamestown
and Little Compton are often attributed to non-resident property owners who
think owning a vacation home entitles them to a vote.
I want to be standing behind one of these jackasses when
they crack out their Connecticut
driver’s license at the polls.
