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Get Out the Vote!
Tomorrow – Friday, October 12th is the deadline for voter registration! But not only for voter registration, but also to change party affiliation for next year. After years of voting as an Independent and being locked out of primaries and telling myself that I need to switch out of Independent to Dem in order to have a valuable vote in NY/NYC, I made the switch online and it only took a few minutes:
Info Page:
https://www.dmv.org/ny-new-york/voter-registration.php
Direct link to voter registration:
https://voterreg.dmv.ny.gov/MotorVoter/
For U.S. citizen who now live in other countries but whose last U.S. address was in New York, email registration works.
Four steps:
1. Get your NY absentee ballot request here, pre-filled via this clever web form:
https://www.usvotefoundation.org/
2. Sign it.
3. Take a picture/make a PDF, and email that to the address provided before Friday. You should get an email confirmation back same day.
4. Mail your hard copy. This way your registration goes through even if it arrives after the Friday deadline.
WE MUST ALL VOTE TO HELP MAKE THIS “DEMOCRACY” WORK.
VOTEMOS.US Weekly Video Podcast Now Available
VOTEMOS.US the site that questions what the 2008 U.S. presidential elections would look like if all residents in the U.S. could vote will now feature weekly video interviews with U.S. immigrants and Mexico City residents concerning the presidential elections and general relations between the United States and Latin America.
Although VOTEMOS.US is a Spanish-language site, the videos have English language subtitles so that U.S. citizens may have an insight into the views of their Spanish speaking neighbors within the country as well as those south of the border. The weekly video interviews are available on the site, as a podcast or rss feed:
This week Argentine Jose Antonio Lazzari relaxing in the park Alameda Central located in the historical center of Mexico City states that he would not vote for Obama, Hillary or McCain and he questions who the leftist candidates are in the U.S… Jose Antonio goes on to point out that the United States is controlled by the transnational companies that are making a fortune in Iraq.
We had a lengthy conversation with Jose Antonio Lazzari, a theater actor and educator who runs a free school in Argentina. Sections of this conversation will be published over the next few weeks. Past interviews with NYC undocumented resident Raymundo are also available and all videos will be archived on the site.