Just heard on the radio...

[madmom]

new voter registration up as the deadline draws near.With one county(didn't say which)processing over 400,000.

[SHRED]

1. I predict

This is where the polls fall flat.
With all the new voter registrtion and an energized base I think Kerry is looking real good.
Still working to get the word out though and not taking anything for granted.

[tech3149]

3. Absoloutely

I was listening to Air America on Sunday. They had the head of Gallup and Zogby on. They didn't reference new voter registration at all. There are many reasons for the change in registration numbers, but you can't get an accurate measure unless you find out the influence that caused the change.

[OctOct1]

2. This made my local paper last week

It said in PA and I forget were Else.
That they were being flooded by the thousands of new voters.
So much so, that they are hiring temp help to process them all.
It is way to many for them to process alone.
Most are urban but a few suburban, but the big Rush is from inner city. I think these are Kerry voters for sure
:bounce:

[msanthrope]

5. Here in Philly record numbers of students have been signing up..

We have lots and lots of kids going to school here, and the DNC has aggressively recruited kids from CT, NY and NJ. Here on my street, which has lots of student apartments, every single 'kid' (I'm that old!) is registered.

We are going to swing the state of PA. Count on it.

[MockSwede]

10. Kerry flood

I hope they're K/E voters! Keep working on pulling the fence-sitters over to K/E. Thanks.

[Carla in Ca]

18. I hope so, too. I think they are.

That debate really did it!

[MockSwede]

19. Scaley

He makes us Italians deeply ashamed at his judicial behavior.

[Robbien]

4. With an energized base, we out number them

and now with all the newly registered voters we are really going to sweep them clear out of the WH.

[madmom]

6. and the congress...

we need the congress to or JFK will face the same shit Bill Clinton had to deal with.

[in_cog_ni_to]

7. When Democrats show up to vote,

Mepublicans LOSE! This is GREAT news! :bounce:

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. NYT - As Deadlines Hit, Rolls of Voters Show Big Surge

October 4, 2004

A record surge of potential new voters has swamped boards of election from Pennsylvania to Oregon, as the biggest of the crucial swing states reach registration deadlines today. Elections officials have had to add staff and equipment, push well beyond budgets and work around the clock to process the registrations.

In Montgomery County, Pa., the elections staff has been working nights and weekends since the week before Labor Day to process the crush of registrations - some 32,000 since May and counting. Today is the deadline for registering new voters in Pennsylvania, as well as Ohio, Michigan, Florida and 12 other states, and election workers will go on mandatory overtime to chip away at the thousands of forms that have been arriving daily.


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/04/politics/campaign/04vote.html?oref=login&hp


Tell all your freeper friends to read this article and weep. It's going to be Kerry in a landslide.

[MockSwede]

9. 400,000

Is that number right? That's huge. Where is this county? Thanks.

[madmom]

11. c-span washington journal

just said four counties in Oh.registered more new voters than live in the county.Franklin & Mercer are the only ones I can remember.

[MockSwede]

12. Cool! Weird?

More numbers than live in county? Needs an accurate census or are they registering folks in graveyards??? Thank you.

[annabanana]

13. ummm this is not good news here

It casts doubt on the new voters.

[sandnsea]

14. College towns?

I don't think college kids are counted as residents in the local census. A campus with 20,000 kids in a small town could easily make the registration situation look odd.

[MockSwede]

15. Makes sense

That is correct that now kids can register and vote where they school and they still would NOT be considered 'residents' in census. School is not their permanent residence, for most undergraduates and some graduate students. I hope this is the case and they are motivated to vote and vote K/E.

[Philostopher]

20. Would make sense for Franklin Cty, Ohio.

Ohio State University is in Franklin County, I believe -- Franklin County is Columbus.

[bobbieinok]

16. WILL THERE BE ENUFF BALLOTS, POLLING PLACES????????

DUers in states with high registration better check this quick.

In 2002, AR and TX at least ran out of ballots and there was a LONG delay in getting more; this discouraged some voters, who then left.

Especially check probable heavy dem precincts.

GOOD WAY TO NULLIFY EFFECT OF NEW DEM VOTERS.

[Eloriel]

17. Exactly -- classic vote suppression/ fraud technique

Good post.