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Originally posted by sgtclub
I didn't think you took me for a complete idiot, just a partial one.
Where is the evidence that voter rolls have increased? I haven't seen anything on the topic.
I also note that those records are not exactly well-kept.
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I only keep track of Texas:
http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/...9818813.htm?1c
ETA: the Harris County voterthon made it's 2000 goal over the weekend at Sharpstown Mall.
EATA more info since it's a registration newspaper:
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Nearly 700,000 Texans have registered to vote since early March, a surge driven by interest in the presidential race and hotly contested congressional races, officials said Friday.
By Election Day, Nov. 2, more than 13 million Texans are expected to be registered to vote, said Luis Saenz, Texas' assistant secretary of state.
In the 2002 elections, when Republicans trounced Democrats for the state's top elected offices, registered voters totaled about 12.5 million.
Registration this year has been particularly heavy in Dallas and Travis counties. And in Harris County, election officials were conducting a "voter-thon" Friday in hope of getting more people to register.
In Tarrant County, more than 40,000 new voters have registered since the March 9 Republican and Democratic primaries, Elections Administrator Robert Parten said Friday.
He said he expects 50,000 more voters to register by the Monday deadline, bringing the number of registered voters in Tarrant County to more than 900,000.
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Also, as much as it may irritate you, you might want to check out the America Coming Together stats. The whole point of that 512 was to register voters in the swing states (who may vote against Bush). They've been mobilizing since April or May, and they're very organized.
A lawyer at V&E estimates that she personally has
registered about 350 people, and the local Tax Assessor/voter register says about 80 percent of Harris county are registered. BTW, the
registration site is useful for cyberstalking and/or figuring out the real ages of local socialites.
