Voter Registration Deadline Nears

By GeorgeMatthews in Victoria County Election Administrator

The last day to register to vote for the May 12th Joint Election is Thursday, April 12th. This day is thirty days before the election and is the deadline for registering for any election. To be a registered voter you ...

Voter Registration Cards are Out

By GeorgeMatthews in Victoria County Election Administrator

Well it took us a couple of weeks but the Victoria County voter registration cards have been mailed. All total there were over 45,000 cards printed, separated, stacked, bundled in mailing trays and picked up by Victoria Pre-Sort. From their ...

Do Not Cut Voter Registration Cards

By GeorgeMatthews in Victoria County Election Administrator

The Elections Office has begun mailing voter registration cards for Victoria County. With over 45,000 registered voters we are doing so in smaller batches and taking about two weeks to mail all of the cards. When you receive your new ...

One of the New Precincts

By GeorgeMatthews in Victoria County Election Administrator

The redistricting for Victoria County helped to balance the population for each of our elected officials. The changes in Victoria were small compared to other communities but still significant enough to alter commissioner, justice of the peace and constable boundaries. ...

Voter Registration Cards are Mailing

By GeorgeMatthews in Victoria County Election Administrator

The 2012 Voter Registration Cards have begun mailing for Victoria County. As you can imagine we are all relieved this day has come. We have been waiting since mid-November of last year to send the new yellow voter registration cards ...

Election workers are needed for Howell School

By GeorgeMatthews in Victoria County Election Administrator

Lots of media coverage has been given to the state redistricting but the city and school district were also required to conduct redistricting after the Census of 2010. There were changes in who our city council and school district trustees ...

Voter Registration Cards to Come, Eventually

By GeorgeMatthews in Victoria County Election Administrator

Over the last week mis-information regarding your voter registration status has run rampant across the state in mis-guided e-mails. If you receive one of the e-mails from a trusted friend please try to remember their intentions are good but the ...

Wouldn't You Like to be an Election Official

By GeorgeMatthews in Victoria County Election Administrator

As is often the case before elections we find ourselves needing help. The county approved changes to the boundaries of the election precincts. In some cases this displaced the election judges who served at the polling location. For the coming ...

Elections are a Fleeting Thing

By GeorgeMatthews in Victoria County Election Administrator

I used to be so proud that in my job when you said something would be done by a certain date, it was done. How true it is that "pride goeth before a fall". The primary elections in Texas have ...

New Voter Registration Cards Coming - Just Not until Valentine's Day

By GeorgeMatthews in Victoria County Election Administrator

You may have noticed your current voter registration cards, the blue ones you keep on a special shelf or in your wallet, have an expiration date of December 31, 2001. Normally we would have mailed new cards starting in mid-November ...