Originally Posted by: ekstasis16Well, as the story goes, I went to college for the next 4 years and completely did not notice that I never got anything in the mail for local elections at home.

Just because you didn't figure it out during those 4 years doesn't necessarily mean that there's a flaw in the system.
If you didn't get a notice somewhere before October 18, you might have wanted to be prepared to go and submit another registration form...