Higher Voter Registration Could Affect Election

[Roland99]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&ncid=564&e=1&u=/nm/20041007/ts_nm/campaign_turnout_dc

In the battleground state of Ohio, Hamilton County, which includes Cincinnati, registered more than 64,000 new voters, an increase of 29,000 over 2000, the county registrar said.

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In Florida, a state Bush won by 537 votes in 2000, the secretary of state said 9.75 million people voted in an August primary, 1 million more than the one four years ago. In Palm Beach County alone, 2,438 new voters registered in person on Monday, the last day of registration.

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Turnout will probably be higher than in the 2000 presidential election, when 54 percent of the electorate voted, and may even exceed the 58 percent who voted in the 1992 race that brought Bill Clinton (news - web sites) to office, said Curtis Gans of the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate.


"This is the most emotional election we've had possibly since 1968. President Bush is a lightning rod," Gans said.

[Roland99]

1. And I've read of 200,000 new voters registered in Missouri

[michigandem2]

2. i've read 7 million in Michigan...

i was like "really?"

If this gets a lot of play..it might not be a shocker if Kerry wins by a huge margin...

[Awsi Dooger]

3. Has journalism really sunk to these depths of incompetence?

"In Florida, a state Bush won by 537 votes in 2000, the secretary of state said 9.75 million people voted in an August primary, 1 million more than the one four years ago."

Oh really. Well let's just take her word for it. Don't bother to understand, or check, that's several million more than the number who will vote in the GENERAL ELECTION. About 6 million voted in Florida during 2000.

The correct number of Floridians who voted in the August primary is just a wee bit lower than 9.75 million, closer to 2.6 million.

The total registration number statewide was 9.75 million as of the August primary, not the number of voters. Fact checkers, do you even exist anymore?