Voter registration drives planned
The Lincoln Parish Registrar of Voters Office will hold a series of voter registration drives across the parish beginning Monday as part of National Voter Registration Week.
This will be the first time Registrar Sharon Parnell and her staff have set up registration sites in every municipality. The staff will also be delivering registration packets and voter education information to local schools.
“We’ll be out in the community all next week,” Parnell said. “We’re looking forward to it. We like reaching out and being in different areas.”
People wanting to register at one of the drive locations should bring a photo ID with their signature on, such as a valid drivers’ license, and proof of their address, if the address shown on their ID is different from their actual residence.
University students wishing to register as Lincoln Parish voters should also bring photo identification, as well as the name of their dormitory and their campus post office box, Parnell said.
Students living off campus need proof of their Lincoln Parish address, such as a utility bill or check stub.
Here’s a schedule of the drive locations:
Monday: 8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m., Choudrant Mini Mart on Elm Street.
Tuesday: 8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m., Cranford’s Chevron on South Vienna Street in Ruston; 11:30 p.m. – noon, Ruston Council on Aging.
Wednesday: 8:30 a.m. – 10:30 p.m., Magnolia Corner in Simsboro.
Thursday: 8:30 a.m. – 11 a.m., Dubach Town Hall; 11:30 a.m. – noon, Dubach Council on Aging; 3 p.m. – 5 p.m., Lincoln Parish Library in Ruston.
Aug. 27: 8:30 a.m. – 11 a.m., Grambling City Hall; 2:30 p.m.-4 p.m., Lincoln Parish Courthouse main entrance on Texas Avenue.
At the Lincoln Parish Library stop, the public will be able to practice on a voting machine programmed with a mock election ballot.
When she interviewed for the position in 2020, Parnell said she wanted to increase voter outreach.
Everyone who signs up during the registration drives will be eligible to vote in the Oct. 9 referendum. On that ballot are four proposed state constitutional amendments and a property tax millage renewal for the parish library.
Lincoln Parish has some 27,168 registered voters.
