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Voter Registration Sweeping the Nation
Deluge Hints at Larger-Than-Normal Turnout in November
By ROBERT TANNER, AP

(Oct. 5) - In a glimpse of what the nation might see a month from now, people lined up at election offices and caused parking lot traffic jams as voter registration deadlines fell Monday in more than a dozen states.

Many officials reported record numbers of new voters, some said they were overwhelmed, and allegations were already flying about fraud and the disqualification of some voters' applications.

Who will monitor battleground state election results on Election Day?

"They're coming in, in buckets,'' said Pamela Swafford, deputy director of Ohio's Hamilton County board of elections. By Monday morning, the county that includes Cincinnati had 64,045 new voter registrations on hand, more than twice the 29,178 it received four
years ago.

Across Georgia's counties, Colorado's booming suburbs and in Midwestern cities, local officials were deluged.

Traffic jammed the parking lot at New Jersey's Burlington County government building. In Ocean County, phones rang continuously. The day for the office operator: "Good morning, Board of Elections, lease hold; Good morning, Board of Elections, please hold; Good morning, Board of Elections, this is Barbara, how can I help you?''
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