Suburban voters register in droves
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Illinois is not considered a battleground state, but suburban residents are registering to vote in record numbers -- a surge election officials attribute to a boom in new residents, concerns over the war in Iraq and memories of the close presidential
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THE STRATEGY: Politicians are reaching out to voters who have already applied for absentee ballots.
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By LORI ARATANI, SETH BOENSTEIN, THOMAS FITZGERALD and WILLIAM DOUGLAS. From Spokane to Honolulu to Cleveland to Charlotte, millions of voters continued to steam into their polling places Tuesday, enduring
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Voter registration drives aimed at young people are turning 18- to 24-year-olds into an important variable in the presidential election, especially in decisive battleground states such as Michigan - where nearly 100,000 young people have registered in recent months - and Wisconsin, where the numbers are even higher.
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PITTSBURGH _ To the daunting challenges facing Republicans in the 2006 midterm elections, add another: angry "values voters" who feel used and abandoned. "We put these people in power in 2004," said Sue Means, a home-school activist from suburban Pittsburgh. "I really expected more.
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A registration campaign in Democratic areas has added tens of thousands of new voters to the rolls in Ohio and Florida.
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About 46,000 people are registered to  vote in two states, New York and Florida, a violation of both  states' laws that could affect the outcome of the November  presidential election, according to an investigation by the  Daily News.
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While Democrats placed their emphasis on the state's urban centers, the Republicans racked up votes in suburban and rural areas.
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Elections officials throughout the region reported potentially record-breaking voter turnout today, and said despite the crowds, they are experiencing only minor problems with voting machines and electronic voter check-in systems.
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Voters fill out their ballots at the 20th Precinct in West Bloomfield, Mich., on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2004. Barbara Lang, third from the left, was the first person to vote.
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As random selection placed registered entrants on a ballot that is expected to be several pages long, officials worried that violence aimed at preventing the election is surging.
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Many of the region's outer suburbs are adding jobs faster than most other large counties in the nation, Labor Department data says.
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An anxious crowd mobbed the election office in this Washington suburb just before 9 pm (0100 GMT Wednesday), seeking to register before the deadline to vote in the November 2 presidential election passed.
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All stirred up. For anyone bemoaning voter apathy, the 2004 election may prove to be both balm and bane. Voter registration soared.
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This was not the breakout year for young voters that some had anticipated. Fewer than one in 10 voters Tuesday were 18 to 24, about the same proportion of the electorate as in 2000, exit polls indicated. Still, with voter turnout expected to be higher overall, more young people appeared to have come out.
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In a glimpse of what the nation might see a month from now, people lined up at election offices and caused parking lot traffic jams as voter registration deadlines fell Monday in more than a dozen states.
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The presidential race is for the next few days largely in the hands of voters who identify with neither party.