Valley’s political organizations ‘get out the vote’ ahead of voter registration deadline
Political organizations across the valley worked to get out the vote Sunday ahead of Monday’s voter registration deadline.
At a republican event in Indio, District Attorney Mike Hestrin spoke about voter integrity and fraud.
“What we stand for at the DA’s office is non-partisan, bi-partisan protection of people’s access and protection of the integrity of the process, so you need both of those,” Hestrin said.
Ruth Weiss, vice president of the Election Integrity Project California, an independent, non-partisan citizen watch group, also spoke at the event.
“Our purpose is to make sure that once you’re registered to vote that you have the information you need to be able to cast a vote safely and every vote that’s cast is cast lawfully and that once it’s cast that it’s counted accurately,” Weiss said.
And across the valley, at the Desert Hot Springs Pride Festival, democratic and human rights groups were registering voters.
“So far we’ve registered a couple of voters, first timers, just under the deadline,” said Peter East of the Desert Stonewall Democrats.
Many people reporter Jake Ingrassia spoke with at the event had already been registered, with Monday the final day to get it done.
If you miss the deadline, you can still register to vote, but it will take some extra effort. After Monday Oct. 22, unregistered voters will have to go to the registrar’s office in Riverside.
If it’s before the deadline, you can register to vote online.
And to check your voter registration status, head to this website.
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