Posted on 10/12/2004 6:34:45 AM PDT by SamKeck
Strictly speaking, the Democratic Party in San Diego County recently gained 10,000 more new registered voters than the GOP in this traditionally Republican region.
However, the increase in numbers for Democrats may be a sign of the times rather than a dramatic shift in the political make-up of the county, said Richard Babcock Amador, a voter registration analyst in San Diego.
According to registration data released last week by the county's Registrar of Voters, Republicans added 18,018 new voters to their ranks from June to October. Democrats, on the other hand, added 28,171 voters to their party.
Overall, there were 67,470 more registered voters in the county, up from 1,364,103 in June to 1,431,573 in October, according to the Registrar of Voters.
"Democrats are fired up and they want to get rid of the Bush Administration," Babcock Amador said. He added that the local Republican party had a similar upswing in registration last year at the time of the recall election of Gov. Gray Davis, a Democrat.
North County Latino Democratic Club presdent Xavier Martinez said that anti-Bush sentiment explains some of the momentum. But he said the party has also been actively registering voters at street fairs and community events such as the Fiesta Del Barrio Carlsbad, a popular annual event.
"People want to register at these events, but if they don't see a booth there, they may not register," Martinez said.
Increases in the number of registered voters are common during presidential election years, Babcock Amador said. What surprised him was the large number of new voters declining to state a party preference.
Since September 2000, the percentage of registered voters in California who have chosen not to identify themselves with a political party increased from 14.2 percent to 17.1 percent, according to the Secretary of State data.
The total number of registered voters increased sightly in California, from 15.1 million in 2000 to 15.6 million in 2004.
The number of undeclared voters also increased in the county from 264,432 in June to 285,049 in October, according to the county registrar's figures. That's an increase from 19.3 percent to 19.9 percent in the county.
"It's not good news to the parties when you see that high a number choosing to register undeclared," Babcock Amador said.
Many of those newly registered voters are young people who may have been energized by the presidential election and the war in Iraq, Babcock Amador said. According to his analysis of county data, 46 percent of the newly registered voters are people under the age of 30.
Among those people, 31 percent registered as Democrats, 25 percent registered as Republicans. However, a surprising 36 percent of them registered as undeclared voters, he said.
"That's a huge portion of the population," Babcock Amador said. "There's people jumping out of both parties."
And that's enought to swing a whole lot of local and county issues that are on the ballot this time around. And I recently saw that the state of Michigan voter registration now included 97% of all eligible voters.
It seems to me that there is some very big time voting fraud going on, and Dubya won't be it's beneficiary.
all you need to do is ask people who vote for kerry if they would work on the 80th floor of the freedom tower under a kerry administration. betcha i know the answer.
Subsiquently then, the great numbers serve as a mask for corrupt manipulation of voting counts. The excess registrations where many registrants are available make it easier and easier to cheat.
The media paints it as closer than it is and the cheating is thus more easily hidden.
They've probably got booths up on the mesa and all along the incoming drug routes to get 'em registered as they pass by. The way California runs elections, when the time comes just about any one with an accent could vote for the long gone criminals.
Especially the dead ones.
"Democrats are fired up and they want to get rid of the Bush Administration," Babcock Amador said.
Those must be the cremated ones.
Where is Arnold in all this? Sitting behind his governor's desk?
This is pure vote fraud.
Check out this article, in liberal Florida paper. Even their columnist knows the Dems are trying to cause trouble.
http://www.sptimes.com/2004/10/12/Columns/The_first_vote_isn_t_.shtml
That's a lot of deaths in one county.
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