Did you know there are special identification requirements for voters the first time they vote in a federal election?
Some forms of ID that are acceptable for Virginia's new ID requirements may not meet the federal requirements. Know what you need before you go to the polls!
Examples of acceptable ID for first time federal voters in Virginia include:
- Your Virginia voter registration card
- Driver's license or other government-issued photo ID (must be valid and name and address must be current)
- Virginia student ID (with your photo or with your current name and address)
- A bank statement, utility bill, paycheck stub, or government check with your current name and address
- Other ID that meets both federal and Virginia requirements (find out which ones by clicking here)
- A combination of an ID that meets federal requirements and one that meets Virginia requirements
If you need to know if you are a first time voter, please click here to search your registration status on the Virginia State Board of Elections website. Virginia Organizing recommends that everyone check their voter registration status before the October 15 registration deadline to ensure you are an active, registered voter. If your address or name is incorrect, or there are other errors in your registration, you must contact your registrar before the October 15 deadline.
If you are a first time voter, you CANNOT use your Social Security card, Medicare card, Medicaid card, or Birth Certificate to satisfy the federal ID requirements! You must bring another form of ID to the polls.
For your convenience, Virginia Organizing has posted information on our website for students, seniors and first time voters. We have also summarized some changes to the law. You can find all this information by clicking here. Please pass along to your friends and family members who may be first time voters.
Since all active registered voters received a voter registration card in the mail, it is best to use your voter registration card as your ID. The voter registration card meets both the federal and state ID requirements. If you do not have your voter ID card, there are other forms of ID that will work such as a bank statement, utility bill, paycheck, or government check as long as it lists your current name and address. You can also use your driver's license, passport, or other state-issued ID. Please click here for a complete list of identifications that meet the Virginia voter ID requirements and the federal (HAVA) ID requirements for first time voters.
Remember: if you need help on Election Day, call 1-866-OUR-VOTE.
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As it is, you veiled a partisan fund-raising solicitation as a news article. Why do you think newspapers (except the Washington Post and New York Times) clearly label quasi-news articles as "ADVERTISEMENT"?
Are you auditioning for a job at the Washington Post?
Why would a FIRST-TERM senator who spent most of that first term running for another office know how to run anything, especially the world's largest economy. Mitt Romney ran a company, he ran something as large as the Olympics, he ran a state. Obama ran NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2) Only in America could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when they have a black President, a black Attorney General, and roughly 18% of the federal workforce is black while only 12% of the population is black. 3) Only in America could they have had the two people most responsible for our tax code, Timothy Geithner, the head of the Treasury Department and Charles Rangel who once ran the Ways and Means Committee, BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes. 4) Only in America can they have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the backlash. 5) Only in America would they make people who want to legally become American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege while we discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just 'magically' become American citizens.
6) Only in America could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country's Constitution be thought of as "extremists." 7) Only in America could you need to present a driver's license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote. 8) Only in America could people demand the government investigate whether oil companies are gouging the public because the price of gas went up when the return on equity invested in a major U.S. oil company (Marathon Oil) is less than half of a company making tennis shoes (Nike). 9) Only in America could the government collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a trillion dollars more than it has per year for total spending of $7 million PER MINUTE, and complain that it doesn't have nearly enough money. 10) Only in America could the rich people who pay 86% of all income taxes be accused of not paying their "fair share" by people who don't pay any income taxes at all.
http://www.bls.gov/ces/cesprelbmk.htm Of course the argument that Obama has made the employment rate worse rests on the notion that somehow by magically being sworn in he was expected to cure it. In fact, the unemployment rate has dropped 2 full percentage points since October of 2009, about the time the stimulus took affect. And Obama has created more jobs in one term, than his predecessor did... the man who drove the country into the ditch in the first place, and whose policies Mr. Romney wants us to return too.
Illegal aliens are here in such high numbers that they are depressing wages and hugely increasing the cost of education, welfare, health care, social services, housing etc. Virginia Organizing believes they are entitled o the same high standard of living that they feel everyone is entitled to. Should they get that "social justice" or the legal justice of being deported because they're here illegally? It all depends on how you see things. Obama has a socialist agenda and will spend us into the ground. Romney just wants to get our economy going again.
Better than the prez that gave less to charity as a percent of income, and claimed it all to pay the least tax he could.
You must have your I.D. with you IN HAND when you come to vote. You will no longer be allowed to sign an affidavit this year if you accidently forgot your ID. Acceptable forms of IDs are listed below. More info is on the State Board of Elections website at: http://www.sbe.virginia.gov/VotinginPerson.html Virginia voter registration card Valid Virginia driver's license Military ID Any Federal, Virginia state or local government-issued ID Employer issued photo ID card Concealed handgun permit Valid student ID issued by any institution of higher education located in the Commonwealth of Virginia Current utility bill, bank statement, government check or paycheck indicating the name and address of the voter Social Security card (Only in some cases. See SBE website for more info)