Reply #16: NC new voter registrations.......

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Almost 53,000 under age 25 registered to vote. (article is no longer posted)

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iyCjg56QEYy3r8Gz2X09TnpaWOMwD8VUG4T80

More than four times as many blacks have registered to vote in North Carolina during the first few months of 2008 as four years ago, a sign that bodes well for Sen. Barack Obama in the state's May 6 Democratic presidential primary.

There has also been a boom in voter registrations overall across age, race, gender and party affiliation, according to the North Carolina state board of elections. And, even though the traditional registration period closes Friday, the numbers may continue to climb if voters take advantage of North Carolina's new same-day registration law.

More than 45,000 blacks signed up to vote in the first three months of 2008, compared with just over 11,000 in the first three months of 2004. White voter registration more than doubled with 106,000 new registrations between Jan. 1 and March 31, compared with 47,000 four years ago.

More of the new voters registered as Democrats, with the number nearly tripling from 2004 to 74,590. Republican registrations more than doubled to 41,301, while more than 49,558 unaffiliated voters signed up, compared with just 16,858 in the first three months of 2004.

There were less than 5.1 million people registered to vote in May 2004, compared with more than 5.7 million today. The Democratic presidential race was over early by comparison to this year, with North Carolina Sen. John Edwards bowing out to Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts after the March 2 Super Tuesday elections.



http://www.newsobserver.com/politics/story/1031775.html

North Carolina has netted at least 110,000 new voters so far this year, with a particularly sharp rise among unaffiliated voters, Democrats and black people, according to the State Board of Elections.

Registered Voters as of 4/25/08 (per the NC Board of Elections):

Democratic: 2,619,153
Republican: 1,934,039
Unaffiliated: 1,241,102