Last Weekend to Register to Vote - Deadline is Monday Oct 6th

[sonias]

Houston Votes is looking for volunteers for this weekend. And so is Austin for our marathon last day of voter registration effort to man 50 locations across Austin.

Houston:

Last Weekend to Register New Voters!

Do Something for Houston this Weekend!
This is your last chance to register voters!

We can also use help block walking and getting the word out about voting!
To help block walk come to the Houston Votes Office, Saturday, Oct. 4th at 10am!

Houston Needs You!

Please volunteer to register people at stores or in neighborhoods
by going to our website,www.houstonvotes.org , or contacting
Dee at [e-mail] or 281-702-7864!

Join us today thru October 6th as we work to register voters!
You Can Volunteer Today! Please Contact us to Volunteer at the Following Locations!
Times are Oct. 4th and Oct. 5th, 10am to 6pm unless noted.

1. SharpsTown Mall @ 7500 Bellaire
2. Fallas Parades @ 45 and Tidwell
3. Northwest Mall @ 555 N.W. Frway.
4. Fallas Parades @ 290 and Bingle
5. Mystros Barber Shop @ 3050 Gears Road
6. Kroger @ Westheimer and Montrose (12pm to 6pm Oct. 4th thru Oct. 5th)
7. Wal Mart SuperCenter, 9460 W. Sam Houston Tollway
8. Food Town , 8800 W. Sam Houston Toll
9. Wal Mart SuperCenter, 3506 Hwy 6 South
10. Wal Mart Neighborhood Ctr, 4810 Hwy 6 North near Clay Rd
11. Work Source, Franz Rd.( during business hours in main lobby)
12. International Trade Center, 11110 Bellaire Blvd, Suite 200
13. Hong Kong City Mall, 11201 Bellaire Bvd
14. 99cent Only Westheimer and hwy 6.
15. Alief Community Park, Bellaire @ Kirkwood
16. HCCS, 2810 Hayes Rd
17. Save A Lot Grocery Store, Gessner @ Beechnut
18. Kroger @ 6767 Spencer
19. CVS @ 402 Gray Street (Today thru Monday, Oct. 6th, 10am to 6pm)
20. CVS @ 1003 Richmond (Today thru Monday, Oct. 6th, 10am to 6pm)
21. CVS @ 1001 Waugh (Today thru Monday, Oct. 6th, 10am to 6pm)
22. CVS @ 6504 W. Little York(Today thru Monday, Oct. 6th, 10am to 6pm)
23. CVS @ 2266 W. Holcombe Blvd (Today thru Monday, Oct. 6th, 10am to 6pm)
24. CVS @ 2900 Broadway (Today thru Monday, Oct. 6th, 10am to 6pm)

Volunteer Opportunities are available at any time at the below sites!

1. CVS @ 3811 OST and Scott
2. Half Price Books 
Rice Village @ 2537 University Blvd
3. Half Price Books W. Humble @ 9734 FM 1960
4. Half Price Books
Clear Lake 961B Nasa Pkwy
5. Half Price Books Pearland @ 2556 Smith Ranch Rd.
6. Palais Royal @ 5782 FAirmont

Austin:

Break Voter Registration Records in Texas!

Voter Registration Volunteers

Join us this weekend for the last three days of voter registration. We need your help, especially on Monday, October 6th, the final day of registration, when Democratic volunteers will staff over 50 locations across Austin. Can't make it next Monday, October 6th? Come out this weekend!

Remember, if they're not registered, they can't vote!

So far, volunteers with the Travis County Democratic Party have registered 10,088 voters! This past weekend alone, volunteers collected 1,316 registrations, including 834 outside the Austin City Limits festival. Excitement to vote this November is high, and citizens are thrilled to see our voter registrars on duty all across town. Thanks to all of our wonderful, dedicated volunteers who have made this happen.


Deadline Day - The Biggest Voter Registration Effort in Texas History

On Monday, October 6th, volunteers will staff over 50 locations across Austin from 8:00 a.m. until the Midnight deadline. We'll be at every Blockbuster Video and Thundercloud Subs in Austin, and plenty of other locations too. We expect to register over 700 people at each of our locations on the final day. We need your help to staff them all! Please sign up for one of the following shifts.

Monday October 6th
8 a.m. - 12 p.m.
12 p.m. - 4 p.m.
4 p.m. - 8 p.m.
8 p.m. - 12 a.m.

To sign up, reply to this email with the shift you'd like to work. There will be a minimum of two people at each location. Please include your name, cell phone number, and region of the city (North, South, Central, East, West, etc.) in which you live. We will place you at a location convenient to your home and call you to confirm.

Can't commit to a four-hour shift? We also need help at the office with picking up and sorting completed cards, and turning them into the Tax Office. Reply if you can help with this work as well. With your help, we'll break records for voter registration rates here in Austin, and help elect more great Democrats to office!


Final Weekend for Voter Registration!

Can't make it Monday? Show up at headquarters on Saturday or Sunday for one of the following shifts. We'll deputize you, train you, and send you to a high-traffic location across Austin to register voters. We're planning to cover all of our best locations one last time this weekend, and want to put as many volunteers in high-traffic areas as possible.

Saturday October 4th -- Sign Up Here
Shifts Start at 8 a.m., 12 p.m., 4 p.m., and 7 p.m.

Sunday October 5th -- Sign Up Here
Shifts Start at 9 a.m., 12 p.m., and 4 p.m.

Want to help us in the office? We need help with data entry, card sorting, and sign-making all weekend. We'll kick things off Friday at 6:00 p.m. and continue all day on Saturday and Sunday. Join us!


Thank You, Volunteers!

Great job this weekend enduring the heat and the hordes at ACL, completing the apartment door-hanging project, and going door-to-door in your precincts! Texas set a record for total voter registrations on the books in the past few weeks, and you all played a valuable part in that! You continue to amaze and inspire the staff at the Travis County Democratic Party Coordinated Campaign. After the deadline, I know we can count on you to join our phonebanking, block-walking, and GOTV efforts.

With all of your immense talent and dedication, you're leading the way to turn Texas blue!

Regards,
Katherine Haenschen
Voter Registration Coordinator
Travis County Democratic Party
www.turntexasblue.com

p.s. Don't forget to check your registration! Texans, look yourselves up, then pass this on to your friends and family:
https://voterinfo.sos.state.tx.us/voterws/viw/faces/SearchSelectionVoter.jsp
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Austin Vote for Change is an all-volunteer voter registration drive. With only 6 days to go before the deadline, they have already registered over 10,088 voters!

Get out the vote!

:kick:

Sonia

[sonias]

1. About 1,200 to take Ike-delayed citizenship oaths

AAS 10/2/08
About 1,200 to take Ike-delayed citizenship oaths

HOUSTON — About 1,200 immigrants in the Houston area whose naturalization ceremonies were delayed by Hurricane Ike will take their citizenship oaths Saturday, just in time to register to vote in the November elections, officials said Thursday.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials originally said hurricane damage to their office would make it impossible to issue citizenship oaths until Oct. 29, well after the Monday deadline for voter registration. But they were able Thursday to enter the damaged portion of their building and get the paperwork needed to contact the scheduled applicants, spokeswoman Maria Elena Garcia-Upson said.

The ceremony, originally scheduled for Sept. 24, will be Saturday morning at Rice Stadium.

The change came as pressure built from immigration advocates, attorneys, U.S. District Court Judge Lynn Hughes and U.S. Rep. Gene Greene, all of whom pushed for an emergency ceremony.

Seems like an opportunity to me.

Sonia

[Melissa G]

2. I'm working the late night Monday shift...

Hope we work the same place again.
Hi Sonia :hi:

[sonias]

4. Hi Melissa

I'm working two shifts
noon-4 and 8-midnight off William Canon.

:hi:

Sonia

[Melissa G]

6. PM me where you are and I'll head over.

They have yet to send me my assigned location.

I'm gonna work from whenever I get off work onwards.
:loveya:

[Sailing]

3. I'm holding out on a move

until after the election, so that I don't loose my vote. I have to move to west austin because the company moved there. Lamar Smiths' district. Yuk! Well, I think Doggett is safe without my vote in the future. At least I can go do some damage Smiths' percentages now. :rofl:

[sonias]

5. Oh I am so sorry you have to move to Lamer's district

I was so happy we were able to get him off our backs. I love my Lloyd.

One day we will be able to get rid of Lamer!

:hi:

Sonia

[sonias]

7. Austin last day's totals - Over 15,000 for Monday Oct 6th

Karl-Thomas Musselman's Burnt Orange Report Diary
Austin Final Day Voter Registration Results: Over 15,000 So Far
(snip)

From the "Hook the Vote" coalition at the University of Texas, led principally by the University Democrats though it was a broad based coalition, the official count was 5,659 registered students yesterday alone (as I twittered just after midnight when we broke out in a chorus of Bohemian Rhapsody on the steps of Gregory Plaza). That's truly amazing and tops the 3,000 one day record at UT we set on the last day to register in 2004 (back when I was an officer in the good old days).

Even more amazing, was that many people were registered even after the University Democrats struck an agreement to have UT put a registration card in every mailbox at the start of the semester and have Voter Registration part of the RA check in. AND even after nearly ever apartment complex in the city had voter registration packets dropped on their doors via the coordinated campaign in the last six weeks.

When I left the collection center tonight, over 15,584 voter registration cards had been counted so far from the 50 voter reg sites today. There are still some of those sites out and will be added to the total tomorrow so that number will grow in the next 24 hours. That's not counting estimated 10,000 cards the Tax Office (which is in charge of maintaining the voter rolls) received independently via mail today and not counting any of the registration cards that were postmarked today and will arrive over the next couple of days there which are valid registrations.

Huge success!!!! Way to kick up the registration folks. Now let's get out there and vote!

:dem:


Sonia