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The following is important info (thanks to The New Orleans Network for providing it!) for all registered voters in New Orleans:

A Spattering of Voter Guides:
Some places to go for information about candidates and/or some folks’ notions of who should get your vote.

• League of Pissed Off Voters: http://indyvoter.org/voterguide.php?id=88
• Jeremiah Group Candidate Scorecard: click on May 20 at http://neworleansnetwork.org/?q=event/2006/05/18/month
• League of Women Voters: www.lwvno.org/ElectionGuide.html
• ACLU of Louisiana: www.laaclu.org/News/2006/aclu_publishes_votersMarch2006
• Nola.com (with endorsements from The Times-Picayune) www.nola.com/elections
• Gambit Weekly: www.bestofneworleans.com

Voting Tools
Louisiana Secretary of State elections page www.sec.state.la.us/elections/elections-index.htm#voting has lots of information about voting, including a polling place locater that will tell you where to go vote and generate a sample ballot
or
Call Louisiana Secretary of State Elections Division: 1.800.883.2805 (M-F 7am-7pm)

Some Basics:
Poll Hours: 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Forms of ID: A generally accepted photo ID is strongly encouraged but not required at the polls. Voters who have no picture ID can bring a utility bill, payroll check or government document that includes their name and address. Voters presenting non-photo forms of ID will have to sign an affidavit furnished by the Elections Division in order to vote.

I see someone was paying attention Tom D’Antoni: The Real Jazzfest: Anger and Sorrow | The Huffington Post

Clue number one should be this: they work for you. They live and die by your vote. They spend your tax money: that’s what they eat from. They are yours, buddy, you’re not theirs. They have a duty to perform on behalf of you, the citizen. Citizens should always remember that, and people in government should, too. This is not the royal family here; these are former used car salesmen wearing fancy suits, sitting in Washington, D.C. So what’s there to be afraid of?

Quoted from a 1986 Interview with Frank Zappa done by VH1’s Jim Macnie