Registrations up in Oregon

[central scrutinizer]

http://www.registerguard.com/news/2004/10/04/b1.cr.voterreg.1004.html

excerpt:

As of Friday, nearly 197,070 Lane County residents had registered, said Lane County Clerk Annette Newingham. She's pretty sure the 1996 general election holds the county record with 197,861 registered voters, although long-term comparisons are complicated by changes in registration and voter verification procedures.

With new registrations arriving at a rate of about 1,000 a day, she's expecting this year's total to surpass the 1996 number.

"We could possibly get over 200,000," she said. Newingham added that new registration cards have been arriving in such large numbers that her staff is about four days behind in processing them.

end excerpt.

Deadline in Oregon to register is Oct. 12. In 2000, University of Oregon students led the country in percentage of students registered.

[0rganism]

1. Lane county leans Democratic, so this is good news for us

Now if this article were about Jackson county...

[swag]

2. Checking Oregon SOS office for January through June,

new Dem registrations were outpacing new Rep registrations by 2/1.

See Oregon Secy' State office at

http://www.sos.state.or.us/elections/votreg/04mvr.htm

January - August difference statewide (though I have a question into SOS office about what their stats represent - I'm taking the most cautious approach)

33752 more Dems registered in the first 8 months
16855 more Reps registered in the first 8 months
21647 more unaffiliateds registered in the first 8 months.

[Arugula Latte]

3. Hot damn!

That's great! :thumbsup: