National Voter Registration Day

Want to make things better? Make sure you cast an informed vote. And be sure you are registered! Don't wait until it is too late to register. Don't wait until it is too late to find out what identification you will need to register and (depending on state) to vote.

There are about 125 million eligible Rising American Electorate voters -- unmarried women, people of color and millennials. That's approximately 57 percent of the nation’s vote-eligible population. Roughly 51 percent of millennials and Asians are not registered to vote, according to the research. Latinos are unregistered at a rate of 49 percent, unmarried women at 40 percent and blacks at 37 percent.

Overall, 42 percent of historically disenfranchised voting groups did not register to vote last year, compared with 26 percent of other Americans, according to the Voter Participation Center.
Most of the readers of this blog do not fall into any of these categories. But we all know people who do and we can encourage them to register, to learn about candidates and issues and to show up on election day to cast their ballots.