Voter Registration Sweeping the Nation

[Clinton Crusader]

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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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[Fleshdancer]

1. Travis County (Austin, TX) has over 100,000 new registered voters

The local news reported this last night and I'm STILL wonderfully surprised! This is just one county...I can't wait to see what the state wide numbers are.

[efhmc]

4. Early esterday morning, I heard the registrar in Travis Co., say that even

before the last day that 90% of all the eligible voters in the county had registered. This is VERY good news for Dems in Texas.

[Fleshdancer]

5. WOW. Absolutely incredible n/t

[bryant69]

2. People are coming in "in buckets"

That'd be a sight to see I should think.

Seriously of course, this is part of a strategy on the Republican side; to suggest that with so many people voting and registering to vote this election, that there will be a lot of fraud, and so we should just severly limit poeple's access to the polls so as to prevent said fraud.

Bryant
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[DemocracyInaction]

3. You know what this means, don't you??

I was overjoyed as I saw this hit the news and the "tickers" over the last 24 hours. They, of course, credit it to the first debate. Well, it is political science 101 that when the masses turn out, the Democrats win (that's why the republicans devote their time to surpressing the vote---and democracy). I doubt if anyone sprang off the couch and went to register because they just got so pumped up over Bush's performance. This is a Kerry rush to the registration offices all over this land. It took the dimwits 3 years to figure out what they have in the Oval Office. Would it not have been nice if they figured that out before 1,058 soldiers died?