Americans are signing up to vote in record numbers: report

[MsMagnificent]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041004/lf_afp/us_vote_registration

NEW YORK (AFP) - 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.


*******It's got the Freepers yelling *Yikes*
LMAO

[deadparrot]

1. Hopefully, they're registering DEM.

[Melodybe]

2. They are.

[VOX]

26. Hope that this is true.

Fingers crossed.

[MsMagnificent]

6. Further down in article it says

"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. "

Italics mine

[deadparrot]

7. Good. Le'ts get them to turn out 11/2.

[fertilizeonarbusto]

3. Watch out, George

The people are coming and they are PISSED.

[bagnana]

4. This is great news

I hope these new registrants vote. Nothing like getting registered and voting to generate interest in politics. Once you take an interest in the results of an election, and cast your vote, it becomes hard to ignore politics. There are more democrats than republicans in this country. Once we realize that and take control think of the good that can be done! It is damn exciting.

[bobbieinok]

15. newly registered hopefully will vote........WILL VOTE BE COUNTED???

[BootinUp]

5. Some day we will thank Georgie.

maybe. ;)

[CrispyQ]

8. Bush is toast. Kerry by a landslide.

In spite of BBV!!

[wryter2000]

9. They have to be ABB

Even if they aren't hugely pro-Kerry yet, they have to be registering to vote Whistle Ass out. Nothing else makes any sense.

[Steelangel]

10. I showed this link to one of my friend (republican)

and he yelled at me, "THAT IS F$#KIN LIBERAL MEDIA"

LMAO, I love that moment when he yelled at me.

[Dirty Hippie]

11. 25,000

In my Florida county. In March we had 140,000 now 165,000 and this is a DEM county.

[freesqueeze]

12. I'm An Eternal Voter Turnout Optimist

This news is great! There have been times in the past when registration numbers shot up quickly but the turnout at the polls was a let down.

Let's hope that won't happen this time.

I know that when I try to get folks to register, I tend to work the areas where turnout is worse. Lower income, minority, or college student areas are typically where I'll set up and pass out the registration cards.

I wonder where it is that the GOP partisans go to mine for new GOP voters. Is there a source of people that aren't registered but if they were they would tend to go GOP? I can't imagine where they would start to look:

Corporate Boardrooms?
Stockholder meetings?
Arian Nation rally?

Any ideas?

[mwdem]

13. My sister & her husband are voting for the first time,

and thery're voting Democrat. They have a special needs son (19 now) & want the Bush administration out pronto! The whole Medicare issue is fueling there hate, but I also gave them a copy of "Bush's Brain", to totally enlighten them. They had no idea how corrupt this system is.

[David Zephyr]

14. 230,000 New Registered Voters in Cleveland, Ohio!

And remember: none of these new voters have been being "polled" at all. None.

[Judi Lynn]

24. Hope the new voters are all Democrats.

Surely they will connect the dots between _Bush, losing so many jobs in Cleveland, and the slap in the face by being named America's Poorest Large City this year. (Miami, Florida has had that distinction many times)

Once they make the connection they'll have no choice but to vote Democratic, you'd think.

[0007]

16. Today at the Democratic Headquarter in Midland Texas

we had a large crowd come in for registrations, which was quite surprising. It was the last day to register.

The Veteran Rally for Kerry last Friday brought in around three hundred persons. The Democratic folks in Midland are fired up to boot junior's ass out of office.

[Judi Lynn]

25. Isn't Midland the area where the pResident "grew up?"

Can't tell you how great it is to hear about Democrats in Texas. More power to them.

[yellowcanine]

29. Yes, that is where Poppy and Babs lived in the "shotgun" house - Poppy

referred to it in his 1988 RNC acceptance speech to try and make him seem like a regular guy who lives in a shotgun house, eats pork rinds, polishes off 6 packs, burps and farts.

[Boredtodeath]

17. Not here, but that's good news

Since I live in republican hell. I went to my elections office today to fill out a change of address and there were only 3 people there filling out forms - me, my SO and a stranger. I asked the clerk if they had been inundated with new registrations and she said no. The whole office of people looked like they were searching for something to do.

This is a good thing!!!!!!

[steely]

18. Man, I pray that my neighbor registered today (deadline).

Saturday he confided in me at a party that he hadn't ever registered since immigrating here some years back - but he wanted to do it today. I hope he stuck to his guns. I have a feeling he'd go DEM.

[kwolf68]

19. Easy to see

With such an inspirational and fascinating President further supported by his impressive debate stand last week, I am quite sure most of these people are signing up with the pleasure of voting for W.Bush. :spank:

[Arugula Latte]

20. My Colorado brother-in-law, a notorious anti-voting guy, REGISTERED

I love him, and he's a great guy, but, damn, it has been frustrating to try to convince him to vote over the years. Most of the extended family is hard-core liberal, with a few exceptions. All our arguments about how fucking AWFUL Bush is went were shrugged off.

Well, bro-in-law finally gave in and made the Colorado deadline to register-- as a Dem.

Why? He has teenage kids. He was told in no uncertain terms: you'd better vote or your kids might get drafted. That did it.

A parent's love triumphs over all, sometimes.

[Kimber Scott]

21. I registered three voters online today ahead of the deadline in AZ!

Wooohoooo! And, I'll make sure they vote!

[struggle4progress]

22. kick

:kick:

[WillyT]

23. Kick.........ing Ass !!!

:kick:



Woo, Hoo!!!

:bounce:

[Polemonium]

27. Freepers fear democracy, we've added 4500 90% dems

And they're fear of Democracy stems from the simple fact that there are fewer Rethugs, than the rest of us (the coalition of the fed up).

Further, overseas voter registration efforts have added well over 100,000 people who have not voted in over a decade, 4500 from our spot on the globe.

Grass-roots efforts have been astounding - well done to all those who helped. Now we just have to help people get to the polls, have them vote early etc.

[MsMagnificent]

30. "Mob rule"

Is how they typify the One man: One vote Democratic system.

Amazing.

[American liberal]

28. this is the best news I've heard all week!

This is exactly what I have been predicting and telling naysayers all along! The polls are not real! Grassroots voter registration drives are real! The results are not going to be nearly as close as the Bush camp is predicting. Voter registration is what's going to come back and bit KKKarl Rove in his flabby white ass! He seemed to think that out of all registered voters, only 50% of them are going to turn out. It's their Achilles' heel and no amount of tampering and Diebold machines can stop the swell of grassroots support for Democracy!!!

Yeehaw!
Peace,
AL