For people in Houston: voting
If you haven't done early voting for the Nov 3 city election, only today and tomorrow are left. Voting locations are the usual subset of the election day polls-here's a chart.
When I went (closest to Rice: Waugh and West Gray, no. 8 on the map), there was no line at all. I doubt that will be the case on Nov 3, although with off-year elections, you never know. As usual, voting by mail closed even before early voting began, and you were too healthy to qualify anyway.
The ballot has far fewer races and amendments on it than last year's Nov election-about a dozen total-which is good since it don't list political parties, so you have to actually know the name of your selection. Here's the League of Women Voter's Guide to help all the ladies with that.
If you're a man, you'll just have to print out a good endorsement list and bring it with you. Here are two:
LGBT Political Caucus
Christians for a Better Government
When I went (closest to Rice: Waugh and West Gray, no. 8 on the map), there was no line at all. I doubt that will be the case on Nov 3, although with off-year elections, you never know. As usual, voting by mail closed even before early voting began, and you were too healthy to qualify anyway.
The ballot has far fewer races and amendments on it than last year's Nov election-about a dozen total-which is good since it don't list political parties, so you have to actually know the name of your selection. Here's the League of Women Voter's Guide to help all the ladies with that.
If you're a man, you'll just have to print out a good endorsement list and bring it with you. Here are two:
LGBT Political Caucus
Christians for a Better Government