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SOS: 230,000 new voters since July.

by: pbratt

Wed Oct 22, 2008 at 21:24:19 PM EDT


Good news for Dems:
From MIRS (subscription required):

Record Number Registered To Vote

A record 7.47 million Michigan residents have registered to vote for the Nov. 4 election, meaning 98 percent of legal residents aged 18 and older are now registered to do so, Secretary of State Terri Lynn LAND reported today.

Roughly 330,000 Michigan citizens have registered to vote in 2008 alone, of those 230,000 have registered since July. The deadline to register for the Nov. 4 election was Oct. 6.
pbratt :: SOS: 230,000 new voters since July.
These numbers are higher than in the 2004 presidential election. That year, 7.16 million people were registered to vote. This means 4.3 percent more voters are registered to vote in 2008 than 2004, which crushed the Secretary of State's original estimate of 1.4 percent.

Good news-depending on where the voters come from.  If 100,000 are from Wayne County, that is certainly good news.
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SOS: 230,000 new voters since July. | 6 comments
Wow (4.00 / 1)
That's a large surge in registration. I wonder how we can get the numbers by county.
It's right on the SoS website! (4.00 / 2)
[ Parent ]
Thank You (0.00 / 0)
According to that PDF, since July there are over 16,000 more in Ingham, 30,000 more in Washtenaw, and around 50,000 more in Wayne County.  
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AMAZING and wonderful! (4.00 / 1)
Now, remind the youngsters to show up and vote! :)
Not really fair (4.00 / 1)
128,000 of them are my ACORN aliases...I'm going to be very busy election day!

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Voter registration files are like compost heaps (0.00 / 0)
On top, they're fresh new grass clipping and orange peels.  But at the bottom, they're indistinguishable from topsoil.

The process involves continually adding names, but the process of removing them is defective and irrational.  Generally speaking, MOST people who die or move away are eventually removed from the file, but not all.  And the gradual accumulation of names that can't be easily removed gives rise to a registration total equal to 98% of the voting age population.

It's not that 98% of all eligible adults are registered; it would be more accurate to say that 80% are registered - about 1.20 times each.  Actually the mix of dead people, duplicates, and people who have moved is more complicated.  Many names are people who moved - and then died, often in another state.  Or are registered twice, but at different addresses.

The increase over 2004 is real, but the total isn't meaningful.

SOS: 230,000 new voters since July. | 6 comments

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