Thread by @dadakim

My mom tried to register as a voter to be eligible to cast a ballot in the Nov 3rd elections. She is not internet-savvy and struggled for 3 hours with the @NVSOS website to register online (using her phone, she has no computer), thinking she finally got her voter reg to submit.

During my weekend call w/her today, I checked online to see if she was successful (anyone in NV can check their voter reg status in link below). Gentle readers, she was almost in tears when I told her there were no records of her having registered. nvsos.gov/votersearch/

Registering my mom would take me at most 5 minutes to do. I have a computer and I know how to submit online forms. My mother, an immigrant to this country who has a third-grade education and for whom English is a second-language, has never owned a computer in her life.

But clear as day on the website to register the @NVSOS states that only *SHE* can submit the online form. I cannot do it with/for her. registertovotenv.gov/SOSVoterServic…

According to the @NVSOS website, she has until Tuesday to register in person. Their website says where people can go, but doesn't link to these offices' websites with details on locations or hours. So I looked that up for her.

One option is to go to the county clerk's office where she lives -- and guess what? They're open for services on Weds + Thurs. Yes, that would be the two days after the deadline (Tuesday) when she must register in person in order to be eligible to vote in the Nov 3 election.

So right now I'm trying to think of how I'm going to drive 3.5 hours to Henderson, NV to socially distance-y help my senior citizen mother register online to vote before Oct. 29. Which is just totally effing on brand for 2020.

UPDATE: I just DM'd with someone working on the @SusieLeeNV campaign who gave me information on how my mom can register to vote in person (using pen and paper) tomorrow. I've texted mom the info + told her you're all rooting for her to vote this year!

Another UPDATE via a call from Kimyi-ah's mom in the middle of a Monday workday (which she never does bc she does not want to interrupt her daughter's job--LOL):

Mom registered to vote today--her 1st time ever since moving to the US in 1977.

She was so happy to report that the person helping her already knew to expect her ("They knew my name before I even told them, Kimyi-ah!") Thank you to @SusieLeeNV's team, especially @tess_seger, who went the extra mile to help. my mom

And thanks to friends and colleagues like @texasinafrica, @msGSXR, @emayfarris, @anniedelgado21 and more who were strategizing with me, some even offering to drive to my mom's home and help her (socially distanced) in person. I'm so grateful.

Y'all the pride I heard in her voice as my mom recounted all of the details of her registering to vote and then saying how she knows her vote counts and matters was on the level of when she told me she was proud of my having graduated from college.

Now let's all vote!!!