Higher Voter Registration Could Affect Election
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New voters are signing up in record numbers across the United States as state deadlines to register to vote expire this week, but it is unclear which party will benefit from the influx.
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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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In voter registration drives, sermons and voter guides, religious groups from across the ideological spectrum have intensified the level of their political activity this year, prompted in part by right-left culture clashes and the legacy of the tight presidential race in 2000.
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Indiana has gained more than a quarter-million new voters since the 2000 presidential election amid a national surge in registration fueled by concerns over issues like the Iraq war, homeland security and health care.
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The surge in early voting is affecting where candidates are sent and money is spent in the final days of the campaign.
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record surge of potential new voters has swamped boards of election from Pennsylvania to Oregon, as the biggest of the crucial swing states reach registration deadlines today.
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Voter turnout is expected to be high in the US election, according to recent polls, and many Americans have already cast their ballots in record early voting.
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Voter rolls suggest a record 4.2 million Missourians are eligible to cast ballots on Nov. 2, but officials acknowledged Tuesday the figure likely is inflated by people who are registered more than once.
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Election day may be in November, but  some Americans will start casting ballots next week under early  voting laws that have reshaped the campaign landscape and  changed the most fundamental act of democracy.
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The level of interest, if it is matched by turnout at the polls on Tuesday, could make the results more important for Democrats than they had assumed.
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Unprecedented get-out-the-vote efforts by Democrats, Republicans and a host of partisan and non-partisan groups will likely drive turnout in the Nov. 2 presidential election significantly higher than in 2000, political analysts said on Wednesday.
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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.    Many officials reported record numbers of new voters, some said they were overwhelmed, and allegations were already flying about fraud and the disqualification of some voters' applications...
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The biggest of the swing states reach registration deadlines on Monday, and boards of election are swamped.
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WASHINGTON - Voting security advocates in the U.S. are bracing for a repeat of problems in the upcoming general election that could rival Florida during the 2000 presidential race.
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Tens of thousands of voters are illegally registered in Florida and another state, a daily reported, fueling concerns about possible irregularities in the state at the center of the 2000 electoral chaos.
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Many states are facing legal challenges over possible voting problems Nov. 2. A look at some of the developments Sunday:
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Among the security concerns that have been raised is the possibility of someone being able to cast multiple ballots. Other concerns are about a sudden power outage and whether data would be lost in such a scenario.