Virginia offers online voter registration.  You can register by mail to vote in Virginia by printing a voter registration form, filling it out and mailing it to your local election office.  You can also register to vote in person if you prefer.  Whatever way you decide, Please register to vote in the upcoming Presidential Election on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020.  Please note some very important dates and deadlines.

  • ELECTION DAY IS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2020
  • DEADLINE TO REGISTER ONLINE TO VOTE IS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2020
  • DEADLINE TO REGISTER BY MAIL TO VOTE IS (POSTMARKED BY) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2020
  • DEADLINE TO REGISTER TO VOTE IN PERSON IS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2020
  • EARLY VOTING PERIOD RUNS FROM FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2020 TO SATURDAY OCTOBER 31, 2020 BUT DATES AND HOURS MAY VARY BASED ON WHERE YOU LIVE.

This is our duty to respect the lives of our ancestors who marched and were beaten and killed to give us the right to vote.  We must know our history in order to move forward.  The Voting Rights Act was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on August 6, 1965 with Martin Luther King, Jr present.  This was very critical for African Americans and it gave African American voters the legal means to challenge voting restrictions and yet here today in 2020 we still have many African Americans who still will not go to the polls and vote.  We are facing racial injustice, police brutality, pandemic and many other issues and it is now time for us to RISE UP AND BE COUNTED.  But we can’t do that if we don’t have a voice, and we don’t have a voice if we don’t vote.  I can’t tell you who to vote for because that is your choice and I respect that, but what I am saying to each and everyone who reads this is quite simple.  “YOU MUST HONOR OUR FORFATHERS WHO FOUGHT FOR THIS RIGHT AND GO TO THE POLLS ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2020 AND CAST YOUR VOTE!  REMEMBER WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER, SO PLEASE ENCOURAGE AND TELL YOUR FAMILY, FRIENDS, CO-WORKERS, STRANGERS YOU ENCOUNTER ALONG THE WAY THAT THIS IS A VERY CRITICAL AND IMPORTANT ELECTION AND WE MUST SHOW UP AND VOTE!

Deirdre Sampson-Robinson