IMPORTANT question about moving and voting

[terart]

Hi everyone,

My daughter has just recently got married and moved. Though she has only moved about 20 minutes away, it is a different city. Can she still vote at out voting precinct? She just got her new drivers license with new married name and address...still has her old one but it has been stamped void. What should she do especially since we are so close to election?? Thanks~

[campaignPete R-CT]

Deadline passed in VA. Oct 15

Go vote where registered. Bring all ids.
They check photo and name. Not address

[SMGFan]

If she is still living in the same county then go to polling location for where she now lives. She is registered in the county.

She will need to vote a Provisional ballot. Indicate on the outer , detachable envelope her new and old address and her names.

If she is now in a different county, she should go to her old voting location. Whether or not she can vote depends on your state voting laws. But the poll workers should not deny provisional ballot.

[RitaOK]

Call her County Republican Party headquarters, perhaps her old one and her new one, for guidance and advice.

[healy61]

Call your county or city clerk office. They have these situations often.

[healy61]

And don’t follow advice you get on line. That would be no defense for a fraudulent vote.

[trebb]

She probably missed this cycle - might talk to local voter folks to see...we are in process of moving and are staying in the old place until 2 days after the election....we’re blessed to be able to schedule our move and putting the house on the market and did not want to lose our vote this important cycle.

[grania]

I think it varies state to state. Around here, she couldn't vote with a name change unless (1) she had the same precinct and (2) paperwork was confirmed by the town voting authority. Otherwise, she'd have to show up at her old voting precinct, use her former name and address, and use one of those alternative forms of ID such as a utility bill with her old name and address. In another words, those registering her would have to accept her as exactly the person they have on the voting rolls.

Is it honest? In one election, someone said they were going to do that and only vote for the items (Pres and VP, US Senate) that were the same in both precincts. Is this legal? I really don't know. I wouldn't think so. I wouldn't do it or recommend it.

[MayflowerMadam]

“Call the League of Women Voters.”

I don’t know any member of League Of Women Voters who isn’t a Rat activist. Just contact the Elections Office and they can tell you the Statute for the state. All are different.

In one state where I was Elections Coordinator you had to vote in your own precinct. If you had recently moved you voted a Provisional Ballot, which would be set aside, verified, and counted with a batch a couple days later along with Absentee Ballots that arrived before midnight on Election Day.

The Elections Office is there to help.

[outofsalt]

The people’s republic of Arlington is not following Virginia law. You have to show a picture ID.

I don’t think it has to be a drivers license so a school ID should work if it shows her address. If you want to be fully on the up-and-up, they may transfer her registration to her new precinct since she was registered in a Virginia district and is not a new voter.

Contact the registrar in your county and or the new county. If it’s the same county they may not have any issue since it’s just a precinct change.

MY neighbor across the street from me works the polls and he greets me by my name then asks for my ID and makes me say my name and address outloud so the other poll workers and watchers can hear it.

[PoplarBluffian]

I would call the County Clerk’s office. I was in a similar situation once & was allowed to vote absentee.

[Vermont Lt]

If she’s notified the state, it’s likely she would have been purged. If she did not register in the new town she is in limbo.

I would ask the old town if she could do a provisional ballot. But I doubt it.

[Excellence]

Is she in the same county? Then call county Registrar of voters. If not, call the state level Registrar. My county has really good people, I hope hers does, too.

[Agatsu77]

She is probably out of luck although every state has differences in the laws. She will have to look up the laws in your state.

[Pollard]

She can vote wherever she’s registered to vote. Might have to drive 20 minutes.

[Yaelle]

They don’t ever ask for ID. She is still registered at her old precinct. Sure she can vote there. In fact she could probably have voted illegally at both if she had registered. No ID means our voting system is stupid and archaic. I walked Post-surgery on a hot day to my polling place once a few years ago. They told me I had already voted. 😤

[philetus]

I agree with post 5. If she is still registered at the precinct, she can still vote there.

[Albion Wilde]

I don’t know the Virginia rules. But in Maryland, she can fill out a provisional ballot at her new polling plac on election day which will then be validated against state records.

Best advice: go the the VA Board of Elections web site and search for info, or call the Board of Elections and ask for instructions. If they think she is a Democrat, they will move heaven and earth to make sure she votes.