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By Stephen Majors
Associated Press
POSTED: 12:46 p.m. EDT, Oct 08, 2008
COLUMBUS: Roughly 666,000 new voters have registered in Ohio since the start of 2008, the state's elections chief said Tuesday.
Ohio now has roughly 8.2 million registered voters, said Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner. The deadline to register to vote in the Nov. 4 presidential election was Monday.
The state has about 211,000 more registered voters than it did for the 2004 election, when Ohio played a deciding role in sending President Bush back to the White House for a second term. Ohio and its 20 electoral votes are currently considered a toss-up between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain.
Cuyahoga, Franklin and Hamilton counties — the state's largest, respectively — saw the most new voters, in that order. Cuyahoga, a heavily Democratic county, saw its voting rolls increase by about 123,000 voters since Jan. 1 to a total of roughly 1.1 million.
Butler County in Southwest Ohio, which voted for President Bush by a nearly 2-to-1 margin in 2004, added the fourth highest number, roughly 30,000 voters.
The voter registration surge was propelled by a presidential election year that began with the highly contested Democratic primary fight between Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Ohioans only register by party for primary elections, meaning that anyone who registered in the state after the March 4 primary would not be affiliated with a party.
There were 2.5 million voters who chose to vote in the Democratic primary, and 1.5 million voters who chose a Republican ballot. The remaining 4.2 million unaffiliated voters either chose an issues-only ballot in the primary, or didn't register until after the primary.
The Ohio Democratic Party said that roughly 75 percent of the new registrations are from Democratic voters. The party argues, for example, that a large percentage of the registration increase in Butler County comes from students at Miami University in Oxford.
The Ohio GOP, however, said it's pursuing the most aggressive voter turnout effort in the party's history.
COLUMBUS: Roughly 666,000 new voters have registered in Ohio since the start of 2008, the state's elections chief said Tuesday.
Ohio now has roughly 8.2 million registered voters, said Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner. The deadline to register to vote in the Nov. 4 presidential election was Monday.
The state has about 211,000 more registered voters than it did for the 2004 election, when Ohio played a deciding role in sending President Bush back to the White House for a second term. Ohio and its 20 electoral votes are currently considered a toss-up between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain.
Cuyahoga, Franklin and Hamilton counties — the state's largest, respectively — saw the most new voters, in that order. Cuyahoga, a heavily Democratic county, saw its voting rolls increase by about 123,000 voters since Jan. 1 to a total of roughly 1.1 million.
Butler County in Southwest Ohio, which voted for President Bush by a nearly 2-to-1 margin in 2004, added the fourth highest number, roughly 30,000 voters.
The voter registration surge was propelled by a presidential election year that began with the highly contested Democratic primary fight between Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Ohioans only register by party for primary elections, meaning that anyone who registered in the state after the March 4 primary would not be affiliated with a party.
There were 2.5 million voters who chose to vote in the Democratic primary, and 1.5 million voters who chose a Republican ballot. The remaining 4.2 million unaffiliated voters either chose an issues-only ballot in the primary, or didn't register until after the primary.
The Ohio Democratic Party said that roughly 75 percent of the new registrations are from Democratic voters. The party argues, for example, that a large percentage of the registration increase in Butler County comes from students at Miami University in Oxford.
The Ohio GOP, however, said it's pursuing the most aggressive voter turnout effort in the party's history.
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