For Students who need Absentee Ballots and other Voting Information

This comes to me from the American Democracy Project:

Dear William Paterson University Community,

On behalf of the American Democracy Project's Coordinating Committee, and all those dedicated offices, faculty members and students who have taken part in the campus-wide voter-registration drive, we want to express our admiration, deep respect and thanks to all the students who REGISTERED TO VOTE in this year's General Election!

Our job however is only half done. Many questions remain to be answered to insure the highest possible turnout of the newly registered! Indeed, some experts are speculating that this year's Presidential race will be determined by the significant numbers of newly registered voters. The preferences of new registrants, are not evident in, and indeed operationally ellude, current polling. To insure that the newly registered get to the polls, any questions or confusions you have about voting must be addressed.

For example, for those of you who are registered students living here in the dorms, you may not be able to get home to vote and may want to recieve an Absentee Ballot delivered to your campus P.O. Box.

THERE IS STILL TIME! REQUESTS for Absentee Ballots must be filled out and returned to your home County Commissioner SEVEN DAYS BEFORE ELECTION (Tuesday October 26th).

You can download the Absetee Ballot Request form (along with a list of county commissioners and their addresses) by clicking on the following link (must have acrobat reader)

http://www.state.nj.us/lps/elections/ballot_application.pdf

New Registrants may also have many other questions, such as:

-"WHO IS MY COUNTY COMMISSIONER?",
-"HOW COME I HAVE NOT RECEIVED MY VOTER REGISTRATION CARD?",
-"WHERE DO I GO TO VOTE"?
-"WHEN WILL I RECIEVE MY SAMPLE BALLOT"

The answers to all of these questions can found by clicking on the website of the New Jersey League of Women Voters: http://www.lwvnj.org/

The League of Women Voter is a highy respected, non-partisan civic organization that we might all benefit from contacting at election time and throughout the year. Once you locate you County Commissioner on the above list, you may also direct all question to that office.

There are many other events being sponsored on campus leading up to Election Day, Tuesday November 2nd. These events are desgined to encourage the entire campus community, especially students, to get out on Novemeber 2nd and vote. Some are non-partisan Voter awareness events, and some, sponosred by various departments, are designed as community debates on current political topics.
Please look for further ANNOUNCEMENTS!!!

With best wishes, Christine Kelly
Director, American Democracy Project

COORDINATING COMMITTEE

Elizabeth Birge Howard Lune
Haiyang Chen Yuri Marder
Kim Daniel-Robinson John Martone
Francisco Diaz Steve Shalom
Elizabeth Ekmekjian Janis Strasser
Djanna Hill Maria Villar
Richard Kearney Miryam Wahrman
Kathleen Korgen Mary Beth Zeman