Voter rolls reach record high (amazing numbers here in NM)

[Gloria]

http://www.lcsun-news.com/artman/publish/article_9490.shtml


Voter rolls reach record high
By Steve Ramirez
Sep 24, 2004, 07:30 am

The number of registered voters in New Mexico has surpassed 1 million, a record-setting mark, according to a state elections official.

“We’ve passed the million mark for the first time ever in the state’s history,” Denise Lamb, director of the New Mexico Bureau of Elections said Thursday. “It’s a little mind-boggling when you consider that according to last U.S. census figures there were about 1.4 million people in New Mexico that are eligible to register.”

According to the 2000 U.S. census, New Mexico’s population was 1,819,046.

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Lamb said county clerks throughout the state have been especially busy in recent days processing all of the new voter registrations.
“We’ve been busy, very busy,” said Doña Ana County Clerk Rita Torres. “We’re getting people coming in here in waves. We’ll get a rush of people, and then it calms down, and then it starts up again.”


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[whistle]

1. Any national numbers available on voter registrations yet....

[skooooo]

2. That means long lines on Nov. 2nd

I hope people have the patience to wait, and that election officials don't turn voters away..

[Vincardog]

7. Don't wait for Nov. 2. VOTE EARLY I will be in SF tomorrow. Who needs a

ride to the polls? Does anybond know about 500,001 democrats I can help get to the polls?

[movonne]

3. I hope the majority are voting Democratic....

[alittlelark]

4. That means that NM will be BLUE

as a native N.Mexican, I can attest to the dem (highly Catholic) leanings in the state. I was there this summer. 4-1 Kerry signs/ bumperstickers, and according to family the #'s are now even higher for Kerry.

[lefthandedskyhook]

8. It'll be great to swap Romero for Heartless Heather too

One less republican rubber stamp in congress!

[TlalocW]

5. This is a republican nightmare

Republicans hate it when people actually want to exercise their right to vote.

TlalocW

[Gloria]

6. Push on for absentee ballots..NM Democratic Party and ACT have

both sent out flyers with absentee ballot applications...

I just dropped off my absentee ballot request TODAY!!!!!!