The Unregistered: Voter Registration Declines in Many States
2008-10-22
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The Unregistered: Voter Registration Declines in Many States
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2008-10-22
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The presidential campaigns and press have highlighted the rise in voter registration during the
2008 campaign. The optimistic storyline misses, however, the large number of states that have
seen their voter rolls decline or stagnate since 2004. The surge of registration has been highly
concentrated in the states that the presidential campaigns have most intensely targeted.
A comparison of official voter registration records in the fall of 2004 with those in the fall of
2008 reveals the following:
• Registration has not improved in nearly half of the uncontested states.
• Registration has increased in nearly all of the states targeted by the campaigns.
• More Democrats than Republicans have been registered in targeted states.
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Center for the Study of Politics and Governance, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
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Jacobs, Lawrence; Burns, Melanie. (2008). The Unregistered: Voter Registration Declines in Many States. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/200523.
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