Applications Mount In Florida Voter Registration Crush

[Indigo Blue]

Applications Mount In Florida Voter Registration Crush
By CATHERINE DOLINSKI
The Tampa Tribune
Published: September 25, 2008


TALLAHASSEE - This year's presidential election has fired up so many people that the Florida Division of Elections can't handle the volume of voter registration applications it is receiving, the Secretary of State's office said Wednesday.

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The state Division of Elections has received an "unusually high volume" of voting applications in the past 10 days, with 25,000 on Tuesday alone, state Elections Division Director Don Palmer said Wednesday in a memo to county election supervisors.

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The political parties continue to press last-minute registrants to sign up. To date, the Democrats have had the most success with new applicants, turning in 105,000 new applications June through August, compared with 50,000 from Republicans, according to the state Division of Elections.

Sen. Barack Obama's campaign continued the full-court press Wednesday. Before the Democratic hopeful took the stage, Clearwater field organizer Ben Mishkin, encouraged everyone in the crowd to help elect Obama.

"We're going to be at football games, barber shops and beauty salons," said Adrianne Marsh, spokesperson for the Florida campaign. "We're out and about making a final push, finding people who are not registered, registering them and getting them out to vote."

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/sep/25/me-applications-mount-in-voter-registration-crush/

[Egnever]

1. 105,000 new applications June through August, compared with 50,000 from Republicans

Sweetness

[LiberadorHugo]

2. Uhoh!

I have a feeling that some African-American voters are going to "disappear" due in this "mountain of paper work".

[ladjf]

4. What is it that is giving you that "feeling"?

[RollWithIt]

3. I just mailed mine yesterday, change of address... :-)

Though I registered as an independent just in case some jackass is removing dem ones.