Posted on 10/04/2004 2:08:00 PM PDT by churchillbuff
Americans are registering to vote in record numbers ahead of the November 2 election, a report said.
Monday is the deadline for registering to vote in some of the crucial swing states -- Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Florida -- as well as 12 other states, the The New York Times said.
Voter registration is a local affair in the United States, conducted with different rules and deadlines in cities and counties across the country. Voters do not need to re-register unless they have moved.
So while it is impossible to tally the number of new voters nationwide, or to predict whether they will actually vote, something is clearly afoot this year, as the United States wages a messy war in Iraq (news - web sites), after the worst terror attacks in US history and the vote recount fiasco four years ago.
"Everything we're seeing is that there has been a tremendous increase in voter registration," Kay Maxwell of the League of Women Voters told the Times.
"In the past, we've been enthused about what appeared to be a large number of new voters, but this does seem to be at an entirely different level."
Election officials around the country are hiring temporary workers, adding equipment and working around the clock to process a flood of registration cards, the report said.
Said an election official in the midwestern city of St. Louis, Missouri: "We are moving toward having the largest number of registered voters in the history of St. Louis County."
In Tallahassee, Florida, epicenter of the 2000 vote recount, the number of registrations is up 20 percent since the presidential primary in March.
In Cleveland, Ohio, a wave of 230,000 new registrations is more than double the number recorded ahead of the last presidential election.
The rate of new registrations is triple what it was in 2000 in the southwestern city of Las Vegas.
Election officials say nonpartisan community groups and Democratic activist groups are mostly behind the registration push, and that huge gains are being made in low-income and minority areas. The pace is slower in rural areas and non-swing states.
The Times reported last week that Democrats had far outpaced Republicans in efforts to register new voters in two key US states, after conducting county-by-county analysis of registration data in Ohio and Florida.
This grass-roots accomplishment could clinch the presidential race if the effort bears out nationwide and if the new voters go to the polls on November 2.
Is this where the Soros bucks are going?
SCARY
Bush is going to whip ass in Ohio. And Florida. There are more people voting because we happen to be in a war.
This stinks of highly-engineered fraud.
What are the chances of these people voting anyway. Most of them are probably dead anyway.
Hope you're right, but what about the quote that says this is the work of Dems and "community groups"?
As I've said, contact your Senators and Congressmen, and your state Reps and governor and maybe the DOJ and demand that something be done about the voter fraud. Don't just sit here and complain.
When a dead person registers to vote, they are almost 100% likely to have that vote cast on Election Day... at least once... and at least 90% of the time for the Democrat candidate.
I would venture to guess that the source of this article (Yahoo, a bastion of fair reporting) has amazingly put a slight spin on the facts.
-- we all need to be clear about the danger this issue poses-- this is the October Surprise from the Left, and they are not even being subtle about it- why should they, with the compliant media, news & entertainment divisions, on their side.
This says that Registered Voters might be a more important statistic this year than Likely Voters....or at least split the difference between the two.
Wouldn't RV be more likely to catch new registrations than LV?
That's just "walking around" money.
Something tells me that Jimmy Carter won't be auditing the cemetaries and the names of "voters" over 65 who just happened to sign up to vote for the first time ever this year. Fight voter fraud.
Not sure if it's going to help Florida, but my mom got a letter in the mail stating that by law all registered voters have to provide (a copy of) a photo ID or some sort of bill, like utility bills, to complete the process.
I didn't recieve one, but I think it's because I voted at a courthouse early while I was on jury duty and provided my drivers license right there. They were letting us test the new voting machines.
Considering the ease in doctoring things, I see no way they can completely detect fraudulent voters. It needs to be more technical and robust. Like fingerprinting or something similar.
It is a horrid thing to say it's a bad thing that so many are regisgtering to vote who have not previously done so, but without the republicans out there pushing for new registrations it is bad news, because it means these new folks are influenced by the left. Why is it that the right sits on their butts when they need more than ever to shake their tails?
If the Dems actually steal this election with voter fraud, they are going to start a Civil War.
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