NEW VOTER CARDS TO GO OUT IN CAPE COUNTY

JACKSON -- The Cape Girardeau county clerk's office will send a total of 36,500 voter registration cards next week to area residents.

Rodney Miller, county clerk, said every two years his office is required to provide voters with new registration cards. The cards identify voters, precincts and wards, congressional districts, representative districts, commissioner districts and other special districts in which voters reside.

The cards will be yellow, to make them easier to identify, Miller said.

Voters should destroy their old cards. The cards are required at polling places to identify the voter.

The U.S. Postal Service will not forward cards to new addresses. Individuals that have moved and have not changed their address with the county clerk's office will have their cards returned to the Jackson office. The clerk will then send those people with forwarding addresses in Cape County letters advising them that to be properly registered they must notify the clerk's office -- in person or by letter -- of their new address.

Anyone who is currently a registered voter and has not received a card or notification to change their address by the end of February should contact the clerk's office at 243-3547 or 335-9060.