I was dropped from the voter rolls; this MIGHT affect you as well.

Went to vote in the Durham primary on Tuesday,
and surprise:
I am not listed as a registered voter.

Odd, since I just registered at this address
last August; no problem last November.

The poll worker was first rate;
"provisional ballot" at a moment's notice.

THIS is when it got INTERESTING.
She took a few minutes to search the database;
she got ALL my pertinent data,
and was trying different combinations of it.
(A smart thing to try, if your are looking for someone
who has been misplaced in a database)

And when she tried simply entering my birthdate, she got ZERO results.
ZERO.
That's pretty much impossible.
There are over 115,000 registered voters in that database;
there's no way I was the ONLY Durham voter
born on that wonderful day almost 23 years ago! (rofl)

The obvious conclusion is:
The DurhamVoter Database has LOST everyone who shares my date of birth!

And if they have LOST everyone with a specific birthday,
what else might be lost?
Other birthdays?
Entire years?
Entire letters of the alphabet?
(I hope it was the "J" names...those smug bastards! *waves fist*)

The moral of this long, boring story is:
Take 5 minutes to make sure your registration is OK
before you get a nasty surprise some November!

I'm just going to send in a new registration.
It takes about 5 minutes, which is DAYS less
than it would take to get anyone to actually track down
and fix the glitch with my old one.

Who knows what else they may have lost?

Have you followed up with a complaint to the county BoE? I think this is worth making a stink about - they should run a complete audit of the system to find (and fix) whatever went wrong.

And contact the local papers if the BoE doesn't jump on it. The Herald-Sun always loves a chance to dig up some dirt on the local government circus.

Durham county's election director is a very consciencious gentleman.

I am not sure what is being done to voter rolls in NC, and/or who affects them.

Do they use electronic poll books in Durham, or paper poll books?

Please ask Mike Ashe what could have happened to your registration, and let us know.

Thanks for the heads-up!

No explanation, but I am listed on the official
Database again.
Same #, and original registration date.

I guess my provisional ballot was all it took!
Good JOB, Durham BOE!