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My daughter is going to college Los Angeles

Two weeks ago she registered to vote down there, but did not receive her ballot. Yesterday she called the voters regisrar and they said they had no record of her being registered to vote.

Anything she can do?

Is it signed by the person who registered her?

If she has any tangible proof, there is an 800 number (don't have it at hand)(someone will post it).

She should call that number and perhaps someone there can help her..

It does not sound very good for her..


sadly, voter registration is like cash.. You would not lay a wad of cash and a self addressed stamped envelope on an empty table, and expect a passerby to mail it to you..

Anyone who registers, should TAKE THE FORM with them, and mail it themselves...certified..

It is not dated, but she registered down on Campus, and the person she registered with turned them in. That was 3 weeks ago. Would it take that long?

Is anyone having any trouble? A friend of mine moved here from NY and registered in California on October 1st at the DMV. He went to vote this morning and was told he hadn't registered. He showed the poll workers his registration receipt and they told him he needed to write an affidavit that he had registered and then go to another building to have the affidavit signed by a judge. They originally sent him to the wrong room, he had to go back to the polling station and they sent him to yet another building where he found that the judge would not be available until 11:00 am. He left without voting because he was told that he would not be able to without a judge's signature.


What I gather from his experience is that your daughter can vote but only provisionally and then only with a signed affidavit that is endorsed by a judge.

but sometimes kids don't listen to their parents. She is registered up here in Northern California, is there anyway she can vote in Southern California?

with the technology we have, there is no reason why someone who is issued a PERSONAL Voter ID number could not vote ANYWHERE in the us (for pres)...(to vote locally, all they would need was proof of residency.. a phone bill, rent receipt, etc)..

Once a vote for that ID number was cast, and a receipt (also numbered), no more voted from that ID would be accepted..

and before the secrecy police jump me.. I am NOT advocating computer chips in people's bodies, so the feds can track them :crazy:..

I am just saying that if we ever expect to resolve the "problems" we have now, a computer database is the only solution..

There IS a way to do this... it just takes serious action..

some states actually allow you to register the day of the election