More Young People Registering to Vote
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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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In the 2000 election, 7.7 million more women than men voted. Having fought for the right to vote - when many courageous suffragettes were beaten, jailed and tortured - women have become conscientious citizens.
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Some 26,000 more people applied for university courses in the UK this year than in 2007, a rise of 6.7%.
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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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The youth-heavy online hangout MySpace.com is launching a voter-registration drive to engage its members in civics.
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There are big variations in how many children from different neighbourhoods go to university.
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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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Young people are voting in numbers not seen in decades. Barack Obama is both catalyst and beneficiary. Will they make the difference?
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Young people are more likely to vote when they receive a text-message reminder, according to new research.
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The Democrats appear to be gaining the upper hand in the battle to sign up new voters in the all-important swing states, an Associated Press analysis suggests.    The AP analysis of the most up-to-date figures from across the country found that the Democrats have registered more new voters than the Republicans have in Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and New Hampshire, while the GOP has done better in Iowa and appears to be holding its own in Florida...
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There&#39;s an unusual urgency to the electoral process this year, reflected in higher attendance at campaign rallies, record viewership of presidential debates and soaring voter registration, not to mention an increase in heated debates over the dinner table
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Surveys show that interest in the election among the young is near the highest level it has reached at any time since 18- to 20-year-olds were given the vote in 1972.
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A campaign to make sure that college students know their voting rights and elections officials know the rules is getting underway by Rock the Vote, a youth-voter group.
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In the city, some 250,000 to 300,000 immigrants-turned-US citizens will vote Tuesday.
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Up to four million Iraqis living overseas are preparing to register to vote in Iraq's first post-Saddam elections.
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It's "Hillblazers" versus "Barackstars" on US college campuses, where presidential hopefuls are counting on zealous student volunteers to turn out the youth vote in November 2008.
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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...