Check your voter registration

Via pir_anha,

States' actions to block voters appear illegal.

Tens of thousands of eligible voters in at least six swing states have been removed from the rolls or have been blocked from registering in ways that appear to violate federal law, according to a review of state records and Social Security data by The New York Times.

The actions do not seem to be coordinated by one party or the other, nor do they appear to be the result of election officials intentionally breaking rules, but are apparently the result of mistakes in the handling of the registrations and voter files as the states tried to comply with a 2002 federal law, intended to overhaul the way elections are run.

The states the NYT particularly calls out are Colorado, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Nevada and North Carolina . In addition, Alabama and Georgia appear to be "improperly using Social Security information to screen registration applications from new voters", and Louisiana "appears to have removed thousands of voters after the federal deadline for taking such action".

If you want to verify that you are currently registered and all the information is current, you can check at http://www.canivote.org/ (which is essentially a gateway to your local election officials).