Public Announcement League Of Women Voters

This is a reminder that that the deadline to register to voter for the February 12th Primary elections is 9:00 PM on January 22, 2008.

Register to Vote Now (if you were born on or before 11/4/1990)!
In a reversal of a new Maryland state policy, 17-year olds who will turn 18 on or before the General Election on November 4, 2008, are eligible to register to vote right now, and to vote in Maryland's Primary Election on February 12, 2008! To vote in February, you must submit your voter-registration application NO LATER THAN January 22, 2008, the date when registration closes in advance of that election.

If you were born on or before November 4, 1990, you are now eligible to vote in February! For most of last year, the Maryland State Board of Elections enforced a new policy that required citizens to be 18 years old by the date of the February Primary Election in order to vote in that election -- contrary to the state's practice over the past 40 years which permitted 17-year olds to vote in Primary Elections if they would be 18 by the date of the succeeding General Election. Thus, you may have heard that you were not eligible to register yet -- but that all changed in mid-December.

Here is a link to the a Voter Registration Application on the the State Board of Election web site:

http://www.elections.state.md.us/pdf/2007_English_InternetVRA.pdf The Wicomico County Election Board

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