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Cooper: Ignore papaya month and register to vote

People check in with poll workers before voting on Election Day in August at Concord Baptist Church.
People check in with poll workers before voting on Election Day in August at Concord Baptist Church. People check in with poll workers before voting on Election Day in August at Concord Baptist Church.

By Clint Cooper 4 min read

REGISTER TO VOTE

› The deadline to register to vote for the Nov. 6 election is Oct. 9. There is an option to register online at https://ovr.govote.tn.gov/› For more information, email Vote@hamiltontn.gov or call 423-493-5100.

Tuesday was National Voter Registration Day. Are you registered? You should be.

If you missed it, you wouldn’t be alone. After all, it also was National Lobster Day, National One-Hit Wonder Day (think “Puttin’ on the Ritz” by Taco), National Comic Book Day, National Tune-Up Day and National Research Administrators Day. And it fell in the middle of Active Aging Week, National Deaf Dog Week, National Fall Foliage Week, National Wild Rice Week and National Chimney Safety Week. And they are celebrated in the midst of, among other things, National Italian Cheese Month, National Blueberry Popsicle Month and National Papaya Month.

Although the designated days, weeks and months of the year celebrations have become beyond ridiculous, voting is no laughing matter.

In fact – yes, we hear this every two years – the November national mid-term election could be one of the most important of our lifetimes. Well, at least the most important in two years.