Posted on 10/02/2012 5:48:52 PM PDT by ruralvoter
Since the Republican Legislature passed laws last year to regulate groups that independently register voters in Florida, Democrats have swamped Republicans in registering new voters.
State elections data show that, through Sept. 24, the Florida Democratic Party had registered more than 230,741 new voters since the laws went into effect July 1, 2011. Republicans had turned in just 46,373 new voter registrations during that time.
Still, both parties are bucking a strong tide against them. In the past four years, the number of voters registered "No Party Affiliation" — the principal category for unaligned voters — has increased by 282,000. That compares with a 73,000 increase in the number of registered Republicans and an actual decline of 140,000 in registered Democrats.
Overall, the state of Florida reports 11.4 million registered voters — up 200,000 from 2008, the year of the previous presidential election — as elections supervisors prepare to close the voter rolls Oct. 9.
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
Poll Ping.
Well, not good, but then you have to subtract all the decline in Dem voters from 08. So, probably, it’s a wash.
There were purges of the voter rolls in FL, too.
Yeah, but ours are all alive.
Thank you for posting this image. Do you have a link to the source article? The Orlando Sentinel is a very liberal newspaper and I don’t expect objective reporting about elections.
“... an actual decline of 140,000 in registered Democrats”
oh, I’m sure that has nothing whatsoever to do with FL’s new law sweeping to check for duplicate registrations, as in NY/NJ etc AND in FL. A lot of those folks who’ve voted in two places for years are probably worried about getting caught now, as was that (former) Dem candidate for Congress in MD
They may purposely register blacks, freaks, government workers, and weirdos . . . people they know to be Dems. But, in Virginia, there is no registration by party ID.
That image came from an article called: “Voter restriction laws devastate democrats”, published October 2 2012 at:
http://samuel-warde.com/2012/08/this-is-what-new-voter-restriction-looks-like/
This is from the Florida Times-Union, Aug 27 2012
http://jacksonville.com/news/florida/2012-08-27/story/democratic-registration-all-dries-new-florida-laws
“TALLAHASSEE - Since a new set of state voting laws went into effect more than a year ago, the number of new Democrats registering in Florida has all but disappeared, according to a Times-Union review.
During the 13 months beginning July 1 the year before elections in 2004 and 2008, registered Democrats increased by an average of 209,425 voters. From 2011 to this year, that number was 11,365.
In Duval County alone there were about 13,000 new Democrats, meaning the rest of the state lost them.
Over that same time, the number of registered Republicans increased by 128,039, topping the average of 103,555 during the past two presidential cycles.
Overall, Democrats still hold a 445,794 statewide registration advantage.”
Try this...
Not in NoVa. 4 years ago they were like cockroaches, they started after Labor Day 2008, but I have not seen them in my area.
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