Voting Information: Registration Deadline October 6

TexasDeadline for registering to vote is Monday, October 6, 2008. Texas On-Line voter registration form, here.

Sign, print out the form and mail it to the county voter registrar. The County Voter Registrar's address can be found at the top of the online outputted voter registration application once you have submitted your information from the fill-in-the blanks screen.

Check to see if you are already registered to vote in Texas, here. List of county voter registration offices, here.

Early voting in Texas

Early voting in person may be easier than you think. You don't have to stand in long lines on Election Day. Registered voters may vote early at a location convenient to them within their political subdivision. Early voting in person generally starts 17 days before each election and ends 4 days before each election. Early voting for the May uniform election date begins 12 days before the election and ends on the 4th day before the election. If you can drive or if you have a friend or relative who can drive you, you don't even have to get out of the car. Call ahead to notify the early voting clerk that you want to vote from your car. This procedure is called "curbside voting" and is available to any voter who has difficulty walking or standing for long periods. The election official will bring your ballot to your car outside the polling place. Curbside voting is available during early voting and on Election Day. State and Federal law requires all early and Election Day polling locations to be physically accessible to voters with disabilities. Call your election official for information on your particular voting sites.

Vote early in person (you don't need to vote in your precinct, you can cast your ballot at any early voting site in your county which is convenient to YOU) or vote early by mail (this is done by requesting an application for a ballot to be mailed to you or downloading an application form). Voting early in person is convenient and, unlike early voting by mail, you don't need an excuse.

Early Voting dates are October 20-October 31, 2008.

Contact your county registrar for voting locations. To request an application ballot to be mailed to you (ABSENTEE), click here

Or request an application for a ballot (absentee) by mail, here.

Contact Information:Texas Secretary of State 1.800.252.VOTE (8683)

Unity Dinner Rescheduled

Cherokee County Democratic Club Meeting and Unity Dinner Notice

We hope that all our Club members came through Hurricane Ike without too much damage and loss.

Cherokee County Democrats will meet on Thursday, September 25th at 7:00 PM, at the new Campaign Headquarters, 402 College Ave., Jacksonville, TX. The Texas Democratic Women will meet at 6:30 PM at the same location. We will be reviewing the campaign calendar and signing volunteers up to help with a Visibility Event, Phone Banks and Neighborhood Walks. Bring a lawn chair for seating and your Silent Auction Items for the rescheduled Unity Dinner.

UNITY DINNER and Silent Auction is rescheduled for Sunday, October 5,at 2:00 PM, Eagles Bluff Country Club in Bullard. Our speaker is Chuck Hopson and we are working with the Noriega Campaign and the Texas Democratic Party to fill out our program with additional statewide speakers.

Unity Banquet Postponed

Due to the impending weather coming our way, the Cherokee County Democratic Club has postponed the Unity Banquet Scheduled for Saturday, September 13. Eagle's Bluff, where the banquet was to be held, has also closed its operations for that evening also.

We do hope that the hurricane will disapate quickly and that the predictions are worse than the reality.

Take care, keep dry, and Vote Democratic.

Cherokee County Democrats Open Headquarters

Exactly two months before the November Election, Cherokee County Democrats opened their campaign headquarters at 402 College Ave. in Jacksonville; officially kicking off the fall campaign. “We are enthusiastic about our entire Democratic ticket, their experience and East Texas values” said Caesar A. Roy, County Democratic Chair.

With Cherokee County residents going without: without money for gas; without jobs, without health care, it is the Democratic candidates who will fight hardest for you and your family. We’re in this fight together. The historic Texas Primary, in which millions of Texans voted, showed that this year, Texans can make a difference - a big Texas size difference.

The deadline for registering to vote is October 6, and Early Voting is Oct. 21-31.

Democratic Ticket for 2008

Vote! The 2008 Democratic Ticket


Barack Obama, for President of the United States of America

Joe Biden, for Vice President of the United States of America

Rick Noriega, U.S. Senate Candidate

Mark Thompson, Railroad Commissioner

Jim Jordan, Texas Supreme Court, Chief Justice

Linda Reyna Yanez, Texas Supreme Court, Place 8

Sam Houston, Texas Supreme Court, Place 7

Susan Strawn, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 3

J.R. Molina, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 4

Chuck Hopson, Texas House District 11 Representative

Dwight L. Phifer, District Judge – 2nd Dist.

Craig D. Caldwell, Cherokee County Attorney

Elmer Beckworth, Cherokee County District Attorney

Deborah Shreve, Cherokee County Tax Assessor/Collector

Moody Glass Jr., Cherokee County Commissioner Precinct 3

Jamie Beene, Cherokee County Constable Precinct 4

Mark W. Green, Cherokee County Constable Precinct 2


Paid For by the Cherokee County Democratic Club, Craig D. Caldwell, Treasurer, P.O. Box 467, Rusk, TX 75785

Don't Forget Unity Banquet this Saturday

We are getting ready for the Unity this Saturday at Eagle's Bluff in Bullard, Texas
I hope you have your ticket and will join in the celebration.
We will welcome Chuck Hopson, Lenora Sorola-Pohlman, and Melissa Noriega as our speakers.
And don't for get we'll have a silent auction to help raise money for our fall campaigning.
See you there.