Mailing in your voter registration? Get it postmarked by Saturday!
Because next Monday (October 10) is Columbus Day and thus a federal holiday, the U.S. Postal Service and its post offices will be closed that day. This means that filled out voter registration forms and voter registration updates that are put in the mail on Monday will not be postmarked that day, which means those forms will not meet Monday’s mail-in deadline for the 2011 General Election later this fall. As a result, the Secretary of State’s Elections Division urges…