Huge voter registration surge in Guilford County, North Carolina

[HFishbine]

Thousands of new voters have joined election rolls for November's presidential election, forcing workers in to overtime to process registrations.

In Guilford County, Elections Director George Gilbert said new registrations this summer are up 70 percent over the same period in 2000, when Al Gore and George Bush battled for the presidency.

From July 1 to Sept. 30 of this year, 14,000 voters joined the rolls for the first time in the county. In 2000, that number was closer to 8,000.

In addition, 18,000 voters filed a change of information such as a new address or party affiliation. Gilbert said the number of changes indicates people are going back to fix registrations that may have been completed years ago and never used. As of Oct. 1, there were 291,339 registered voters in the county.


http://www.news-record.com/news/local/registration100504.htm

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Yeah, I know it's only one county and it's anecdotal evidence, but it's one more drop in the bucket in a state that I think is going to be a big surprise.

[Timefortruth]

1. I hate these articles when they don't tell the spread.

Good reporting would have the total in 2000 including D/R breakdown and the total for today. Without that information it is hard to judge the meaning of this.

[HFishbine]

2. I agree

The reporter addresses that in his blog -- says he'll report it once all the registration are processed. Not sure of the rationale; don't know why they can't report the D/R breakdown to-date, but none-the-less...

http://blog.news-record.com/scoopblog/archives/2004/10/14000_new_voter.html

[Supersedeas]

3. more democracy is better no matter what the spread

[underpants]

4. Outstanding

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