We received our new voter registration cards in the mail this week, as our previous ones expired on December 31. If you haven’t received yours, or if you’re unsure if you’re still registered, better take care of it quickly as the deadline to be registered in time for the primaries is Monday, February 1. Via press release from the Tax Assessor’s office:
Visit the Tax Office Web site at www.hcvoter.net to ensure that you are properly registered. If you need to update your address or make a name change, you can obtain a voter registration application on our Web site, at any Tax Office branch location, local post offices, libraries and City of Houston community and health centers.
To be eligible to vote in the March 2 primary elections, your completed voter registration application must be delivered to any Tax Office branch location before 4:45 p.m. on Feb. 1, or mailed with a U.S. Postal Service postmark date of no later than Feb. 1, 2010. State law requires citizens to be registered to vote 30 days prior to the election date in order to be eligible.
Applicants may register to vote if they:
- Are a resident of Harris County, and
- Are at least 17 years, 10 months of age (to vote, you must be 18), and
- Are a U.S. citizen, and
- Have not been finally convicted of a felony, (unless they have completed all punishment including any term of incarceration, parole, supervision, period of probation, or have been pardoned); and
- Have not been determined by a final judgment of a court exercising probate jurisdiction to be totally mentally incapacitated or partially mentally incapacitated without the right to vote.
For more information, please contact the Harris County Tax Office Voter Registration Department at 713-368-VOTE (8683).
That’s two weeks from Monday, so if you need to take action, please do so quickly.