One week to go and do you know what/wt ho you are voting for? For a little assistance, take a gander at the County of Riverside Elections site and start putting your voting thinking caps on.
Ways you can get involved:
- Volunteer to be a poll worker or inspector. Actually, it’s not even volunteer work. You get paid for that, and you especially make out swell if you’re a government worker because you get the $90 fee and your normal day’s pay. My co-worker does it every election and it’s a long days worth of work but if you work with a good group of people then it could be a fun and responsible way to spend a day.
- Get to know your Board of Supervisors. Who are they and what do they do and what do they believe in? Are they representing you well or voting in favor of stuff that doesn’t feel right to you? If you don’t know, you’ve got no one to blame but yourself. Check ‘em out. The same thing could be said about your Reps. Get to know them too.
- Register to vote. What? You didn’t yet and now you’re wishing you had? Tsk tsk. The primaries are so important but you have plenty of time for the actual elections so register now. For every registration you do I get $7.00 so please… just kidding. I wish. Register anyway. I know this one guy who has never voted before. He’s the sexiest cat too but it takes a way a wee sexiness from him knowing he isn’t going to vote. Don’t let this happen to you, men! Register and wear one of those little flag stickers that say, “I voted!” You could end up in the sack with an impressionable gal or guy.
- Know your candidates. Don’t just choose based on a cute name or someone who sounds “adorable”. I Heart Huckabee could be catchy but 4 years from now you could be thinking, “I never hearted this fool and I wish he were gone”.
- If you moved and didn’t update your address, don’t fear! If you are registered in the County of Riverside, and have moved without updating your voter registration record, please call the Registrar of Voters office immediately so that we may assist you in the necessary procedure for updating your record and provide you with instructions on where you will vote. For more information please call (951) 486-7200. Very accommodating, don’t you think?
- Vote early and vote by mail. If you’re too busy on the 5th, vote early or send in your vote.
I don’t know what else I could do for you except go with you and attend to your dangling chads or push some buttons for you. I’ll do what I can to put some of the local issues (yah, what *IS* up with the Indian Gaming stuff – I have no clue yet) and my humble opinions. Go vote! Early and often 
