In some universities the authorities have delayed registration of students for the new academic year.

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You talked about the ground game at the start and obviously speaking to students on the day of the voter registration deadline.

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More than three-quarters of Class.com's 7, 000 high school students are homeschoolers, says Blair, and total registration for the company's online classes now exceeds 15, 000, an increase of more than fivefold since July 1999.

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At Fairfield University in Connecticut, the University's College Democrats kicked off its "dorm storm" campaign, an effort in which students go door-to-door on campus with voter registration forms.

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Danielle Grufferty, NUS vice-president, said students would be talking to locals about education and other issues and helping them to fill out voter registration forms if they were not already registered.

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