HOUSTON — In the wake of Hurricane Ike, some voter groups are asking for an extension of the voter registration deadline.

Houston Votes and Texans Together argue the hurricane caused a major disruption for folks who otherwise might have gone to their local post office or library to pick up a registration card.

That’s because for those who spend their days huddled with FEMA, the election might as well be next year.

“No way, no sir. Right now I’m thinking about where I’m going to lay my head in the next couple of weeks,” Maxine Jones, whose home was completely destroyed during Hurricane Ike, said.

The voter registration deadline is a week away. Normally voters could grab a registration card at the library, but in many cities post offices and libraries are still closed. Many post offices that are open are out of registration cards.

“Unprecedented events call for unprecedented action,” Maureen Haver who is with Houston Votes said.

The groups are asking Harris County Judge Ed Emmett to ask Gov. Perry for an extension.

“We have fundamentally been derailed because of Hurricane Ike and if people around the state of Texas were able to register during that time, then we deserve that same right to register to vote,” Haver said.

Meanwhile, a spokesman for County Judge Ed Emmett said that even though Houston Votes and Texans Together held a news conference outside the county courthouse, no one walked inside to ask the judge to do anything. So for now at least, the registration deadline will stand.

A spokesman for Governor Perry says he’s heard no reports of anyone unable to register.

But the problem is there is no way of knowing how many people are simply distracted.

“I’m not thinking about voting, I’m thinking of where I’m going to live at,” Jones said.

In Galveston County, officials were still trying to determine how to hold the election itself, given that some voting sites and entire neighborhoods were completely wiped out.

Currently, the voter registration deadline is Oct. 6.