WOW!!! "upwards of 10,000 people registered to vote in Chicago" since last Thursday!

[wndycty]

This is awesome. Every year we hear how turn out is down, wouldn't it be great if turn is up across the country this year. This is great news!

Young voters here register to vote in record numbers

January 8, 2008
BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter
Barack Obama’s surge to frontrunner status in the Democratic presidential sweepstakes has touched a nerve with young voters in the Chicago area: They’re registering to vote in record numbers.

In the six days since Obama’s decisive victory in the Iowa caucuses, upwards of 10,000 people registered to vote in Chicago, figures seldom -- if ever -- seen for a presidential primary.

On Sunday alone, 200 people showed up to register at the counter of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners’ office at 69 W. Washington. On Monday, there were 1,600 new registrations there.

The regular deadline for registering to vote in the Feb. 5 primary was midnight Monday, but eligible Illinois residents have until Jan. 22 if they go to their local election authority’s office and cast a ballot at the time of registration.

“Two-thirds of the people registering these last six days have been 32 and younger — some as young as 18. If you talk with these younger voters, they’re making direct reference to a history-making election and Barack Obama,” said election board spokesman Jim Allen.
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http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/731066,obama010808.article

[aquart]

1. Yep. Don't wanna be a roadblock to history.

[Breeze54]

2. That is awesome !!

And New Hampshire is running low on ballots due to RECORD PRIMARY TURNOUT!! :woohoo: :woohoo:

More ballots being delivered all over the state!! :D

[wndycty]

3. There is so much bitterness here on DU so many people are missing the real story. . .

. . .folks are engaged and motivated for the first time in a long time.

[Breeze54]

5. I hear you but we have to keep going anyway!

I saw a few posts last night with apologies from some of them and they conceded
that despite their vitriol, the goal is to take back our country and they will get in
line behind our nominee, whomever it is! Hang in there!!

This IS the fight of our lives!!! :hug:

[Cha]

12. Really, I didn't see

that..it would have made me feel good, too.

[Cha]

11. On to South Carolina for

more record turnouts!

[thoughtanarchist]

4. Everyone should register, check your status, and/or re-register if necessary.

After the string of voter-roll burglaries last year, any dem would be foolish not to secure their right to vote against the possibility of caging!

[Yael]

6. That is impressive!

[Spinzonner]

7. How many of those are alive ?

[wndycty]

8. LOL

:kick:

[Occam Bandage]

9. Some of us are even alive, too. Edit: Whoops, too late on the draw.

[Cha]

10. This is what this country

needs! :patriot: :patriot: