If you care about the electoral process and the way the media covers elections, then tonight is your night.

For everyone who feels the media never listens, now is your chance to give us your feedback about this year's elections.

My New Haven Register colleagues and I want to increase voter participation. We are polling the electorate and holding voter forums across New Haven County and Northwestern Connecticut to find out which issues you want a focus on coverage of the 2012 elections.

There will be a targeted focus where candidates are vying for open seats: the U.S. Senate and 5th District House contests.

Please join our Ed Stannard, Angie Carter and I starting at 6 p.m.  at The Funky Monkey Café & Gallery, 130 Elm St. in Cheshire.

 Ed and Angie are the Register's Community Engagement team and I am the paper's North Bureau Chief, covering Cheshire and Wallingford news

Help us prioritize the issues for in-depth coverage by the Register and our sister papers, the Middletown Press, Register Citizen in Torrington and Litchfield County Times.

We’ve met already with voters, civic and business groups in the Milford, New Haven and Torrington areas. I'll be at the Funky Monkey tonight and I hope you will, too.