I found this great web page that can help you find out if you are registered or not. It’s been created by a group called Voters Unite.

I was looking for such a tool because I wanted to know if the registration of my friend who had recently moved had been updated. It turned out that it was.

Then out of curiousity, I thought I’d check my own registration. I was very surprised that after I entered my name, county of residence, zip code and birth date that there was no record of me. This was surprising because I’ve voted in the same place for almost 10 years. And it’s doubly weird because I have already received my absentee ballot since I will be traveling on election day.

The best I can figure is that my registration didn’t show up because of a clerical error in the database; that there is some discrepency in my name or birth date. These are the types of discrepencies that massive purges of eligible voters are made of. And even though I have already received my ballot and am confident about being able to vote in my usual voting place in another election — because the online database shows no record of me — I fear that I am already on my way to having my name be purged from the rolls someday.

Are you registered or do you just think you are? Go to Voters Unite to find out.