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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.
It would take at least a couple dozen intact balls to throw a revolution or civil war.. Most have been cut off by the feminazis.. Nah all we will do is bitch to high heaven.. Nobody wants to be called a terrorist which is what you would be called when the gov't machine guns the secret hidaway in some tree.. that the "patriots" would have the secret DOOR knock to GAIN ENTRY TO.....
THEN AGAIN, Jeff Heads(freeper) 5 part novel (currently on sale) could be a very real senario...
Yes, if they vote Democrat.
I hope you didn't leave your form with him. He might just have thrown it away.
The newly registered may not vote unless that nice Donk lady activist from NY shows up with cigarettes as she did in WI in 2000. Then there are the NY/NJ snowbirds and student serial voters to worry about. Why hasn't a national standard been set for voter ID? We knew this was coming...in CA voter ID cannot be asked for from what I've heard from poll watchers.
That is what I'm thinking. In a couple of the polls, it shows GWB with a higher lead among registered voters than likely voters. The way I read it, that means a lot of people that don't normally vote have recently registered and they intend to vote for Bush.
I did leave the form with her, but I doublechecked with the election committee a couple days later just to be sure the form got to the right place. It did.
From your fingertips to God's ears.
Prairie
I listen to G.Liddy every day and he pushes people to go to his web site to register, I think there are a lot of gop's registering too.
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I see a record number of exhumations on Nov. 2nd ...
Huh? What kind of *journalism* is this? Urine-alism?
My governor, both my senators, and my congressman are all Louisiana Democrats (KKKathleen Blanco, John Breaux, Mary Landrieu, Chris John). In other words, they are the manufacturers and the beneficiaries of voter fraud, and God only knows what they've engineered this year to steal the Senate race, the congressional race, and (if they're lucky) the entire state for John Kerry.
Any complaint I send to them is gonna be laughed right out of their offices.
A far cry from my time in Texas, when I enjoyed Gramm, Hutchison, Archer, and good old G.W. Bush. (Why the hell did I ever come back here?!)
Guess I could give Ashcroft a try.
-Dan
Nor I. Turnout always hurts the GOP. It also makes me question the polls which quote "likely voters" and what that means to the pollster. I think there will be people voting who don't usually vote just because they hate Bush and they may not show up as "likely voters."
Oh, and the effort is concentrated in OH & FL according to a press conf from a few days ago.
It isn't just the Dems..........trust me.
Even our church has tables in the entry hallway for congregants to register to vote. This election is a BIG one.
I agree. But just remember that no RATs can not pull this stuff off without their apathetic RINO associates.
Don't worry. The GOP has registered over 4,000,000 new voters. If the dems are trying to register "dead" people, I suggest that the way to prevent this will be as a "poll watcher". You REALLY don't think that we're just going to sit back and watch the democRats try to steal the election, like they tried to do in 2000, do you???
The reason for the increase, I believe, is two fold.
#1) The "Veterans" vote
#2) We are at war
So......stop worrying, and sign up to PREVENT democRat VOTER FRAUD!!!
True.
Also would not surprise me if the Dems are telling potential voters that if Bush gets 4 more years he'll reinstate the draft.
That would make a really good poster,but,man! I can hear the screeching of Dems already! LOL
There was an odd RV out of Gallup (?...I think) about a week ago that had RV's tighter than LV. My memory says that normally a lead becomes smaller with LVs.
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