NEWS
Tuesday is National Voter Registration Day
In honor of National Voter Registration Day on Sept. 17, Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson reminds Texans there is still time to register to voter ahead of the November General Election.
“Texans have just a few short weeks left to register to vote, and I want to ensure all eligible Texans who want to make their voices heard are registered and prepared to do so,” Secretary Nelson said.
Eligible Texans are encouraged to make a plan for voting. Directions on how to register to vote and how to update existing voter registrations can be found at VoteTexas.gov. Texas voters must be registered to vote at least 30 days before an upcoming election date, and voters do not have to declare a party affiliation when registering. Registered voters can check their status on the Secretary of State’s My Voter Portal website.
To be eligible to vote, you must be:
· A United States citizen
· A resident of the county where you register
· At least 18 years old on Election Day
Important dates to remember this election season include:
· Oct. 7: Last day to register to vote
· Oct. 21: Early voting begins
· Oct. 25: Last day to apply for ballot by mail
· Nov. 1: Early voting ends
· Nov. 5: Election Day
For official information, including registration and vote-by-mail deadlines, please visit VoteTexas.gov or call 1-800-252-VOTE.
The long-awaited drainage project at the intersection of Rock and Pillar is now underway as an excavator has begun work on the new channel as the culverts are replaced and the channel straightened. (Photos by Rosie Cole)
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
Bowie City Councilors conducted a brief agenda of business Tuesday night.
City Manager Bert Cunningham reported the city received a $6,800 grant to support a clean-up week Nov. 17-21.
He attended the grant scoring meeting in Wichita Falls on Monday where it was announced the total of grant requests came in at $84,500. With $85,000 available all the cities were funded.
During the clean-up week dumpsters will be set up at the Second Monday parking area and citizens can provide their utility bill as an identifier to dump free.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
Just a few weeks before the major mid-term elections Texas election officials had an unknown number of voter registration applications dumped on them that have not been processed due to an error by the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Montague County was not immune as the local elections administrator Ginger Wall reports they received approximately 517 records to process as a result of a “technological error” at the state level that caused this major backlog.
The DPS system failed to send the applications, submitted by voters through its online driver’s license portal, to county voter registrars. The backlog is at least 200,000 voter registration applications and updates.
Read the full story in your Thursday Bowie News.
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