Eight Practical Tips for Voting

Eight Practical Tips for Voting
By C. Anthony Hunt, Ph.D.


1. Plan to arrive at the designated polling place at least an hour before voting, and at least an hour before polls close.

2. Go to the polls in groups. If at all possible, avoid going alone.

3. Expect to wait in line. Wait patiently, and don’t leave until voting.   Wear comfortable shoes, and carry a disposable bottle of water.

4. Know the exact name, address and date of birth on your voter registration. If possible have your voter registration card with you.

5. Take at least one form of up-to-date photo ID, and if at all possible carry a valid government ID. It might not be needed, but have it just in case.

6. In the event of questions or confrontation, calmly ask for and wrote down the name of the election official in charge of the voting place.

7. If required to complete a provisional ballot, complete the provisional ballot. Take the time that’s needed to completely and as accurately as possible provide the required personal information. Remember, all U.S. citizens have a right to cast a ballot or provisional ballot.

8. Remember, it is ultimately the role of state elections boards, not polling places, to verify the eligibility of those who have registered to vote, based on information provided by the registrant.

Reflections on the Importance of Voting

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Reflections on Being a Peacemaker

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Reflections in the Aftermath of the Shootings at Tree of Life Synagogue

He was from suburban Bergen County, New Jersey and I had been reared in Washington, DC, although my family moved to the Maryland suburbs when I was a sophomore in high school. We met on the first day of college, and realized as we got off the elevator together on the seventh floor of Easton Hall, and made our way down the hall, that we would be dorm roommates at the University of Maryland - not by choice, but by assignment. How were we supposed to make this roommate thing work, I wondered? On the surface, Jerry and I were as different as two eighteen year olds could be. He was Caucasian and Jewish, and I was African American and Christian. He was bold enough to ask me what it was that I was putting in the closet, and I told him, it was an ironing board. We both chuckled. He’d never ironed his own clothes, so I told him I’d show him how. Over the more than two years that we lived as roommates, I learned as much from Jerry as I did from my college professors. I leaned that we had more in common than we had differences. We both loved sports, almost all kinds of music, and pizza (lots of Dominoes pizza). We both loved to laugh. We grew to become like brothers. We learned about the differences and similarities of our faith experiences as Jewish and Christian. I’ve learned to appreciate, through my experiences with Jerry, and other Jewish and Muslim persons with whom I have engaged over the years, that the thing that we all fundamentally share is our humanity, as creations of the same God. We share stories - similar and different though they may be - of exile and exodus, suffering and hope. Tonight, I remember and give thanks for Jerry and his family, and I pray for my Jewish and Muslim sisters and brothers, here and abroad. I pray for all who are in some ways strangers in a strange land. And I pray that we will find it within ourselves to come to the place where we see the full humanity in each of us whom God has fearfully and wonderfully created.

Reflections of the Role of the Church and Religious Leaders in the Public Square

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Faith Makes a Difference

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Reflections from the Renew the City Conference, Chattanooge, TN

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