Florida sees surge in new voters after weeklong registration extension
Source: Tampa Bay Times
TALLAHASSEE The extra week of voter registration in Florida has produced nearly 37,000 new voters, and the surge will continue in the coming days as the state sets an all-time record for the total number of voters.
Gov. Rick Scott's chief elections officer, Secretary of State Ken Detzner, said 36,823 voter registration forms have been verified from people who registered from Oct. 11 to Tuesday, and 26,773 more applicants are being verified.
That's a potential bounty of 63,596 more voters. Scott won re-election as governor two years ago by 64,145 votes.
The voter roll will get even larger as an unknown number of additional voter forms are still in the mail and will be valid if they were postmarked by Tuesday.
Read more: http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/florida-nets-64000-new-voters-with-extra-week-of-registration/2299165
Kinda disproves Scott's refusal to extend registration dates in view of the hurricane. Let's hope most are Democrats.
"Along the I-4 corridor in Central Florida, Hispanic outreach groups have been particularly active in recent weeks registering new voters. As those new voters join the rolls, Florida Democrats have largely eliminated the Republicans' long-standing advantage in returned mail ballots."
babylonsister
(170,963 posts)bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)will turn out to vote.
Tempest
(14,591 posts)groundloop
(11,488 posts)Tempest
(14,591 posts)He told Cuban Americans at a meeting he would not do business in Cuba at the same time he was trying to get business in Cuba.
groundloop
(11,488 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)That many are recently arrived Puerto Ricans fleeing the economic disaster on their island. It is there first chance to vote for President and they are motivated.
And guess who a vast majority of them support?
Florida will go Blue 3 straight!!