Virginia Adds 49K New Voters in August

Source: Washington Post

By Alec MacGillis

With time running out on its push to register thousands of new voters in Virginia, the Obama campaign is picking up the pace. State election officials told the campaign Friday that 49,000 new voters signed up in August, a sharp increase from the 36,500 who signed up in July and the 28,000 who registered in June.

The campaign had predicted that its August numbers could lag given the difficulty of reaching residents during vacation season. But the August gain puts the Obama campaign very much on track toward its goal of signing up 150,000 new voters by the early October voter registration deadline, on top of the 142,000 new voters who registered during primary season.

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Nationally, more than 2 million Democrats have been added to the rolls in the 28 states that register voters according to party affiliation, according to the Associated Press. Republicans have lost nearly 344,000 thousand voters in the same states during the same period.



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good to see all those repukes going elsewhere.

but the problem is in Virginia we do not put down party affiliaton as stated here in the article "There is no way of knowing how many of the newly registered will vote for Obama, especially since Virginia does not record voters by party affiliation." In '04 our numbers toppled the Republicans in all states. Until the way we vote for president is made one way only, nationally, not by state rules, I will be worried.

neighborhood by neighborhood to contact the voters who registered indie or didn't indicate.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/31/AR2008083101961.html?sub=AR

With so many new voters, we really need more people to work the polls. The lines will be long. YOU can make a difference. YOU can contribute to fair and honest elections. Your country needs YOU.
Take a vacation day from your regular job and help America vote!

I can hardly believe it.