It has confirmed
More Young People Registering to Vote especially in battleground states. We have known for a while that traditional telephone may have missed them because most of young voters use mobile phone. Will young voters hand Kerry a surprise win even he's behind G.W. in the final polls? It's quite possible judging from the number of new voters quoted in the article.
"....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...."
"...Officials in several other battleground states -- New Mexico, Ohio and Florida among them -- see clear signs that more young people are interested in this election. And some election experts believe that polls of "likely voters" often miss young people because the population is so mobile.
In Wisconsin, the New Voters Project claims to have registered more than 109,000 young people -- numbers election officials say they have "no reason to doubt."
"It's been an incredible undertaking," says Kevin Kennedy, executive director of the State Board of Elections in Wisconsin, a state Al Gore (news - web sites) won by less than 6,000 votes in 2000.
Officials at Rock the Vote -- a nationwide campaign aimed at young people -- say they expect registration numbers to surge as deadlines in many states approach. In the first two weeks of September alone, more than 163,000 people filled out and downloaded registration forms from Rock the Vote's Web site. Hans Riemer, the organization's Washington, D.C., director, says that in the past week as many as 20,000 people a day used the site to register.
At that rate, he says Rock the Vote's registration numbers may surpass those from 1992 -- a year when young voter turnout topped 50 percent for the first and only time since 1972.
One political scientist says he's particularly interested to see what happens this time in Minnesota, New Hampshire and Wisconsin, where voters can register on Election Day. Data has shown that young people are particularly likely to take advantage of same-day registration.
"It leaves the door open for a surprising outcome," says Donald Green, a political scientist at Yale University and co-author of "Get Out the Vote: How to Increase Voter Turnout."