Voter Rights

11/3/2008

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Story Published: Nov 4, 2008 at 3:23 PM EDT

Story Updated: Nov 4, 2008 at 3:23 PM EDT

More than five million will vote in Michigan tomorrow. Vote 2008 coverage continues with My TV 20's Jorge Avellan. The question... What are your rights, as you vote tomorrow?

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Long lines are expected tomorrow at polling sites. If while waiting to vote you feel that someone is trying to influence your vote, organization such as the NAACP recomend you report the incident.

Heaster Wheeler
"If voters feel that they have been intimated we are encouraging them to call the clerks office, call the police or call the Detroit branch NAACP. We have an election protection hotline which is 313-664-2424, 664-2424"

Once inside the polling location, if you realize you forgot your photo ID, you can still vote.

Kary Moss
"Even though it is required generally when you go to the polls, don't have your photo ID with you, you should be allowed to sign an affidavit that says you are who you are and you should be allowed to vote."

Kary Moss of Michigan's ACLU, wants voters to know that wearing politcal paraphernalia should not prevent you from voting.

Kary Moss
"If you were political paraphernalia you can be made to take that off or to turn it around or to take off the button but you should still be allowed to vote. You should not be turned away simply because you have political buttons or literature with you."

Once again, the number to the NAACP's election protection hotline is 313-664-2424.

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