Posted on 09/28/2004 2:22:48 PM PDT by NewMediaFan
New voters are flooding local election offices with paperwork, registering in significantly higher numbers than four years ago as attention to the presidential election runs high and an array of activist groups recruit would-be voters who could prove critical come Nov. 2.
Cleveland has seen nearly twice as many new voters register so far as compared with 2000; Philadelphia is having its biggest boom in new voters in 20 years; and counties are bringing in temporary workers and employees from other agencies to help process all the new registration forms.
Nationwide figures aren't yet available, but anecdotal evidence shows an upswing in many places, often urban but some rural. Some wonder whether the new voters - some of whom sign up at the insistence of workers paid by get-out-the-vote organizations - will actually make it to the polls on Election Day, but few dispute the registration boom.
"We're swamped," said Bob Lee, who oversees voter registration in Philadelphia. "It seems like everybody and their little group is out there trying to register people."
Some examples, from interviews with state and county officials across the country:
- New registered voters in Miami-Dade County, a crucial Florida county in 2000, grew by 65 percent through mid-September, compared with 2000.
- New registered voters jumped nearly 150 percent in Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) in Ohio, one of the most hard-fought states this year.
And that's with weeks left until registration deadlines fall, beginning in October.
Curtis Gans at the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate said a clear national picture won't emerge until more applications are processed next month...
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Let the fraud commence...
Those dead voters are very active considering their situation.
HMMMMM, worrisome to say the least.
Precisely. This is why I take little comfort in the polls which show W in the lead. It is not clear to me that the pollsters are reaching a representative sampling of the new voter base, and fraud will be rampant on the left.
What are we doing to check voter fraud????? can this just be swept under the rug????
I do know that they have been heavily focused on the black areas of Miami and Orlando this time. Black turnout in the last election was underestimated by pollsters because a story in the Miami Herald on the Sunday before the election indicated that Bush would repeal affirmative action.
If Bush gets a cushion from other voters in the I-4 corridor (he split the area the last time), then all the high black/Carribean turnout in theworld isn't going to save Kerry.
Look, there are still a lot of nutjobs who think Bush "stole" 2000, and turnabout is fair play.
They WILL be voting early and often out there.
Will fear of the unknown (Kerry the serial waffler) bring enough swing votes in to overwhelm the cheaters???
That's why Kerry isn't spending more money in Missouri, they have to pile up funds for the recount. Mary Jane Cahill, formerly Kerry's campaign manager, is now in charge of raising that money.
We really need to monitor the polls nationwide. The NM GOP is looking statewide for poll watchers. They are going to conduct training for poll watchers as well. I am signing up. All FReepers ought to do the same.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0963416308/qid=1096407085/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/103-0837422-8419065?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy
by John H. Fund
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1594030618/ref=pd_sbs_b_1/103-0837422-8419065?v=glance&s=books
I know. My dad voted Republican his entire life, but since he died he's voted straight Democratic.
For some reason I have a really bad feeling about this. Given the liberal mantra of "Count every vote," I'm having trouble seeing how these wonderful BOE folks are going to verify the votes as actual, living, registered voters.
The areas that seem most affected are big EC states...OH, FL, IA, MO, MI...The Constitution is very clear...the first Tuesday of November. This is what happens when you make it easier, rather than harder to vote.
Thoughts?
PEOPLE NEED TO GO TO THEIR LOCAL REGISTRAR/POLLING PLACE AND GET INVOLVED.
DO NOT JUST TALK.
On the other hand, I've read that the GOP is signing up record numbers of new voters, so surely some of these numbers belong to the GOP. They are not ALL Dems. And the ones the GOP signs up are more likely to actually vote. The young people, good intentions aside, don't actually book it to the polls, if they have something better to do.
Yes.
Blame it on "the new tone."
Just curious - how many were actually citizens and eligible to vote?
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