Do you know someone who needs to register to vote in Worcester?
Please Please Please. The deadline is TODAY.
Hey everyone! Super super quick request: think about someone you know in your life who could be and might not be registered to vote in Worcester. Maybe that’s you. if so, super easy. Maybe it’s a coworker or a classmate or an unc—maybe skip your uncle. But anyone else. Just text them this post. Here’s the link in a way that’s easy to copy/paste on a phone:
https://www.worcestersucks.email/p/please-make-sure-you-and-yours-can
Today is the last day to register to vote in the city election on Nov. 4.
People who may need a reminder includes teens, college students, folks who have recently moved here, etc. Again: the deadline to register or update your registration is today. Registering to vote online is very easy. Changing the address on your registration is even easier. You can do it online. It takes like two minutes. Seriously it’s less time consuming than logging into Facebook.
You go here: MA Online Voter Registration You click “register” if you’re not registered in Massachusetts. “Update” if you’re registered in another city or town.
If you are a college student, you can use the address of your school. I REPEAT: IF YOU ARE A COLLEGE STUDENT YOU CAN USE THE ADDRESS OF YOUR SCHOOL. And then you can vote against incumbents who’ve made this place miserable for college students.
The site looks like this.
There are five language options and I have no idea what the fourth one even is. Regardless, it takes two freakin seconds in any language on offer.
Every vote is going to count in this election and the cranks already have their numbers. Worcester is stuck in the 1980s because the cranks have their numbers built in and no one else knows what’s going on.
Look at the difference between municipal and national elections.
One part of the city, you’ll see, votes heavily in both. The rest, there’s a significant drop off between presidential and municipal elections. That sucks. It matters as much if not more who’s your mayor as who’s your president. I will explain that in an election guide I wanted to have done today but will have to come out tomorrow, which is after the deadline to register to vote. Tomorrow (Sunday) is after the deadline to register to vote. You must register or update today (Saturday). It takes two seconds. You go here: MA Online Voter Registration.
If you live downtown, you could be one of the ~150 new voters needed to unseat an objectively evil local tyrant. A mini Trump you can punish in real life. Her name is Candy Mero-Carlson.
The margins are so slim in these races it’s ridiculous. Because no one votes in municipal elections. And the people keeping the city stuck in the 1980s like it that way.
But don’t worry about the specifics just yet. You have until Nov. 4 to cast your vote. There will be an election guide available to you tomorrow. Just make sure you can vote. And in order to vote, you need to be registered to vote in the city of Worcester. And you need to that today.
One more time: MA Online Voter Registration
That’s all I wanted to get across today. Please share this with someone you know who might not be registered correctly.
Ask for help in the comments if you’re confused about everything. The people are friendly in the comments here as opposed to anywhere else.
If you add one voter to the dismally small pool of municipal voters in this city, you’ll have done a good deed. You’ll have helped make things a little bit better at a time when everything is getting worse every day.
And then, for my paid subscribers, a little treat. Below the paywall line is a link to a spreadsheet I painstakingly put together detailing all the split votes of the past term. It is a very instructive, clarifying document, which is probably why the city clerk doesn’t make it and I had to.
Here’s a little incentive for those on the fence about getting over that digital fence. If supporting real local journalism in your city isn’t quite enough.