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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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 &#151; where nearly 100,000 young people have registered in recent months &#151; and Wisconsin, where the numbers are even higher.
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Absentee voters in the most populous county of a critical state in the presidential election are complaining about a ballot layout that they say might prompt some people to choose the wrong candidate, or none at all.
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PHOENIX -- When residents of Maricopa, Ariz., south of Phoenix, vote in the presidential primaries Tuesday, it will be against a backdrop of vacant storefronts and sprawling, terra-cotta roofed subdivisions that are studded with for-sale signs as far as the eye can see.
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Every day, an army of campaigners fans out across central Florida's "I-4 corridor" in search of suburban moms, transplanted Puerto Ricans, teenagers and any other potential voter wavering between John Kerry and George W. Bush.
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A look at efforts by the Democrats and the Republicans to register new voters in battleground states:
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THE STRATEGY: Politicians are reaching out to voters who have already applied for absentee ballots.
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Election Day is still two weeks away, but voters across the state have the option Monday of beginning to cast their ballots early in this pivotal battleground state.
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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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Americans are registering to vote in record numbers ahead of the November 2 election, a report said.
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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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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.    They are the nation's newest swing voters, with polls showing their support for the major candidates has vacillated in recent months...
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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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Candidates are wooing the union vote more aggressively than anytime in the past 20 years.
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Democrats have far outpaced Republicans in efforts to register new voters in two key US states, according to the New York Times, which conducted a county-by-county analysis of registration data in Ohio and Florida.
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This suburb of Pennsylvania's largest city, with its carefully-groomed lawns lined with signs supporting President George W. Bush or Democrat John Kerry, represents one of the many fronts in the battle for the White House.
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Americans abroad have registered in record numbers, hoping their votes will help swing the U.S. election