His institute had also received European Union money to carry out a voter-registration campaign.
It will also have to overcome a creaking voter-registration system and an apparently partisan registrar-general.
Today, Southern states have higher black voter-registration rates than states outside the region.
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Mr. Ritchie is also an ally of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or Acorn, of fraudulent voter-registration fame.
Obama trained ACORN personnel, worked with its activists on the group's (often problematic) voter-registration efforts and consulted with its most aggressive operatives.
But he's spent countless hours pounding the pavement for local candidates and holding voter-registration drives in his hometown of Fort Collins, Colo.
The New York Times's Nate Silver criticizes Chief Justice John Roberts for his use of voter-registration statistics during last week's oral arguments in Shelby County v.
In 1991, he took time off from his law firm to run a voter-registration drive for Project Vote, an Acorn partner that was soon fully absorbed under the Acorn umbrella.
So has Florida, which has not only tried to restrict voter-registration drives but also limited early voting and sought to purge ineligible voters from its rolls, using a list full of errors (that effort has been suspended).
At stake in these battles is not simply what form of identification voters must remember to put in their pockets on election day, or what information voter-registration volunteers must remember to include on their forms, but possibly the presidency itself.
The federal "Motor Voter" law, enacted in 1993 to expand voter registration, allows would-be voters to fill out a mail-in voter registration card and swear they are citizens under penalty of perjury, but it doesn't require them to show proof.
Huge surges in voter registration in river towns like Evansville and cities like Gary may also give him a boost, and volunteers from upstate college areas like Bloomington -- where voter registration is way up -- have fanned out across the state.
New-voter registration ended this week in New Mexico, and voting actually began.
Some suggestions: looking at state records--Jones had updated his driver's license and voter registration address--searching the phone book or the Internet, ordering a credit check or posting a notice on the property.
MS. PSAKI: I think -- in the final days, I think the President has reflected quite a bit on his roots as a community organizer, as somebody who was engaged -- running a voter registration drive and having those kind of individual one-on-one interactions with people.
This legislation, backed by Walker, would also end same-day voter registration at the polls.
The Republican mayoral nominee has won the last five mayoral elections in New York City, even though Democrats hold a six-to-one advantage in voter registration.
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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.
Asian Americans are meeting other challenges head-on by conducting vigorous naturalization and voter registration drives.
In 1995, he represented Acorn in a key case upholding the new Motor Voter Act -- the very law whose mandated postcard registration system Acorn workers use to flood election offices with bogus registrations.
"I had a nightmare last night that I forget my voter registration card, " said Marnie Coons, a 19-year-old UVA student and Obama supporter.
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Sam Younger, chairman of the Electoral Commission, said once the Act was fully implemented, it should remove the opportunity for fraud "considerably" - although the watchdog would still like to see individual voter registration.
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Voter registration tends to rise sharply before elections, especially in closely-fought districts.
And this does not include any likely decrease in the African American vote due to voter ID legislation hurdles and registration declines due to foreclosure and job loss-related relocations.
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The peer also said it would ensure that the boundary review was based on the new system of individual voter registration, to be brought in under the bill with all-party backing.
That proof of residence is a critical document, and for many the only form of identification: Besides serving as proof of nationality and getting you a new roof over your head, it can help you get discounted provisions at government-run stores, a phone and utility hookup and a voter registration card.
Jana Hybaskova, the European Union envoy to Iraq, described similar voter registration problems at polling sites in Baghdad's upscale Mansour district, a mixed Sunni-Shiite area.
And if the McCain-Palin ticket wants to win, they best not slap those folks they need for voter registration drives and systems to get folks to the polls.
The high court will hear arguments Monday over the legality of Arizona's voter-approved requirement that prospective voters document their U.S. citizenship in order to use a registration form produced under the federal "Motor Voter" voter registration law that doesn't require such documentation.
The smartphone app hosts many additional features such as: voter registration information, voter specific polling place information, sample ballots, access to Associated Press real-time election coverage, videos, candidate and local ballot initiative information, and election results.
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