Do You Know When Your Next Chance To Vote Is? (Hint: It Might Be Soon!)

What’s the story?

For a participatory democracy, the United States sure makes it hard to participate, at least when it comes to voting. Every state has its own system for registration and primary rules, its own structure for organizing towns, cities and counties.

TurboVote, a program of non-profit Democracy Works, is looking to make things easier, creating online access to voting registration information, absentee ballots, and election schedules. Once you sign up, their system provides you with links to everything you need to start voting and emails or texts you reminders so you never miss an election.

They’re bringing voting into the 21st century, and we here at Countable are so excited!

Why does it matter?

Why is voting so hard? I recently missed an election because in the small city and county I live in, my city ward number and county district number are different. I had no idea.

That information probably came on the postcard I got from the local Board of Elections confirming my registration when I moved. Who reads those things?

TurboVote could have helped me. I would have received a text, reminding me that I was eligible to vote in the current election.

I can’t always guarantee I read my snail mail, but I always read my texts.

Federal, state and local elections are a lot to keep track of, but it’s also a lot of opportunities to make your voice heard, and to be counted. Isn’t that why you’re here? To be Countable?

Sign up with TurboVote today and you’ll always be counted.

Democracy will never be the same, but, y’know, in a good way.

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— Asha Sanaker

(Photo Credit: Kārlis Dambrāns via Flickr / Creative Commons)