An important note from Alan Keele to voters in Orem District 60 about our 17 Precincts, your individual voting location, and how to register to vote:
YOU MUST REGISTER AT LEAST 30 DAYS BEFORE NOVEMBER 2 IF YOU REGISTER ON PAPER OR ONLINE. IF YOU REGISTER IN PERSON AT THE COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE (100 East Center St., Rm 3600, Provo UT 84606) YOU CAN REGISTER UP TO 15 DAYS BEFORE NOVEMBER 2.
Orem District 60 runs basically from Center Street south to the University Parkway and from I-15 east to the Provo River. Three precincts, however, are south of the University Parkway. (Precinct 12 is south of the Parkway to 1600 South and east of Main Street to State Street. Precinct 37 is south of 1600 South to 2000 South, east of 250 East to State Street. Precinct 9 and a small extension of the Precinct called 9a are south of the Parkway to the Provo border and from State Street east just past Carterville Road to the Provo River.)
If you visit:
http://www.utahcountyonline.org/apps/WebLink/Dept/CLERKAUD/LegDistrict60_Reduced.pdf
you can find a map of our District and locate your Precinct. (It helps to enlarge the image by clicking control and + several times so you can read the street numbers.)
Unfortunately, the list of polling places at:
http://www.utahcountyonline.org/dept/clerkaud/Elections/PollLocate.asp
was incomplete as of September 27 (they have promised me to fix it asap).
Fortunately, the list of polling places for the past PRIMARY ELECTION is complete and seems accurate:
http://www.utahcountyonline.org/apps/WebLink/Dept/CLERKAUD/Primary2010PollList2.pdf
To register to vote, please visit:
http://elections.utah.gov/
and go to the link on the lower right hand that says register to vote and: Vote, Leave Your Print! You can download a paper form or register online.
Please register and be sure to vote, even if you don’t vote for me (which I hope you will, however!) As citizens we all have a duty to study the issues and make our voices heard at the polls on November 2nd!
We always get the kind of government we deserve. If we are diligent we’ll have good governance, if not, there are lots of examples of bad governance. (When a woman in our District recently told me she thought we ought to do away with all government, to get government “off our backs,” I later mentioned her to my brother-in-law Elder F. Melvin Hammond, an emeritus member of the LDS Quorum of the 70 (and a Democratic representative to the Idaho State House – and minority leader – for many years). Mel said to me, recalling his years as a mission president in Bolivia: “She ought to move to Bolivia,” he said. “In Bolivia there’s almost no government: No roads, no schools, no fire, no police, no worker safety, no environmental protection, no social security, no medical care, no child labor laws... in Bolivia you’re pretty much on your own.” We deserve better here in Utah County, in District 60!
