Posted on 03/25/2008 7:13:33 AM PDT by GVnana
At the Montgomery County Board of Elections Office yesterday, there wasn't a single moment when someone wasn't at the counter clutching a voter registration form.
"It's been a madhouse," said Joseph Passarella, the director of voter services, whose office stayed open late - until 8 p.m. - to accommodate the crowds.
At county election boards across the state, lines snaked down hallways as voters rushed to meet last night's deadline for registering to vote in the April 22 primary matchup between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama. According to the Pennsylvania Department of State, 19,639 new voters signed up in the period between March 10 and 17, the latest statewide data available. Of those, 14,256 registered as Democrats.
Also, 29,060 people changed their party affiliation to Democrat in just those seven days.
That increased the total number of eligible Democrats to 4,044,952, an increase of 4 percent from last November. And those numbers don't reflect the major voter registration push that the Clinton and Obama campaigns waged this past weekend, leading up to yesterday's deadline.
It also doesn't include the crush of applications received by election boards yesterday, many of which added staff and stayed open late to keep up with demand. "I drove here from Boston," said Emily Person, 28, of West Chester, who had been visiting relatives in Massachusetts.
"I started getting nervous that I wasn't going to make it," added Person, a Republican who is switching parties so she can weigh in on the choice facing Democrats. "It's been crazy," said James L. Forsythe, head of Chester County's Voter Services, describing the scene at his office yesterday.
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Amen, brother or sister!
To check to see if your NC voter registration is “active”, you can check here: http://www.sboe.state.nc.us/votersearch/seimsvot.htm
But to check your affiliation, you have to check with your county board of elections, and I doubt they’d give it to you over the phone.
“McCain has those dem blue collar workers over Obama in spite of Nafta. Those dems wouldn’t vote for a black if he were the second coming.”
Sounds like you’re describing union workers in the rust-belt swing states who are among the most reliable Dem voters. As soon as the Dem race is decided, we’ll be treated to months of lying AFL-CIO virulently anti-McCain ads out the kazoo!
Why accept Obama propaganda? We’re aren’t “haters.” They are!
All in PA. Be aware of the Rendell & Clinton cover up!
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