VIRIGINIA Orders 200,000 Additional Voter Registration Forms

[Bluebear]

RICHMOND, Sept. 14 -- Virginia elections officials have ordered an additional 200,000 voter registration forms because of shortages in some parts of the state and an expected crush of new registrants over the next three weeks.

The new forms, the first batch of which should arrive at state offices this week, were requested by the State Board of Elections after it distributed nearly 350,000 registration applications in July and August. Many were sent to county elections boards and the Department of Motor Vehicles, but groups trying to register voters also have gone through tens of thousands of applications...

With Virginia shaping up as a battleground state this election, presidential candidates Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) are rushing to register as many voters as possible before Virginia's Oct. 6 registration deadline.

Obama's campaign has been especially aggressive in trying to register new voters, believing they hold the key to his efforts to become the first Democratic presidential nominee since 1964 to win the state...

Since Jan. 1, the state's voter registration rolls have swelled by 211,000 people, to 4,796,855.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/09/14/ST2008091402441.html

[slinkerwink]

1. Hope the fundies don't get a majority of them!

[writes3000]

2. Most of the fundies are already registered.

I bet these new forms go overwhelmingly towards the Democrats.

[WheelWalker]

8. I couldn't agree with you more, Comrade. n/t

[Cha]

3. Rec'd! Great

News from Virginia:bounce:

[kingpin8399]

4. i hope they order more BALLOTS also, they better not run out on 11/4

[Borgnine]

5. I currently live in deep red Virginia.

And while the old fundie dipshits all out in force for McCain, more and more young and new voters are coming out for Obama. It's practically a 50-50 split in bumper stickers, which has never happened.

[ccharles000]

6. kick

[Arugula Latte]

7. I doubt the majority of those people are registering to vote for more of the same old, same old.

Good news.