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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The band Detonations and the Louisiana Family Forum have had one aim in common this year: Getting people to register to vote.
Monday is the deadline to register for the Nov. 2 election, and political and nonpartisan groups have been pushing people to get their paperwork in on time.
A record 2,866,183 people had registered as of Sept. 25 — a 2.5 percent increase since the 2000 presidential election, according to the secretary of state's office.
The increase is not just population growth: the rate is four times higher than the increase in voting-age population during that time.
The 2000 presidential election, with narrow votes in many states and the contested vote in Florida, showed that each vote does matter, said Jean Armstrong, president of the Louisiana League of Women Voters.
"This year we have one of the most crucial elections in recent history," Armstrong said.
Louisiana residents will vote Nov. 2 for the president, a U.S. senator, all seven U.S. House seats, a state public service commissioner and many local offices. The congressional seats could go to a Dec. 4 runoff if not settled on Nov. 2.
The increase of Louisiana registrants is seen among all racial groups — but not all parties.
The number of registered Democrats shrank 5 percent, to 1.6 million, over the past four years. In the meantime, the number of registered Republicans grew 11 percent, to 682,511. And independents and "other party" voters rose a combined 16 percent.
The Republican Party of Louisiana has spent the past three years targeting fairs, festivals and high schools — especially in rural areas — for get-out-the-vote drives, Executive Director Jon Bargas said.
"When you make it easy for them, then the response is very positive," Bargas said.
The strategy is to tap voters who already have a conservative philosophy but might have grown up in a Democratic household and never changed their party registration, Bargas said.
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The conservative-minded Louisiana Family Forum has found direct contact much better than direct mail, executive director Gene Mills said. It asked ministers from all denominations to learn how to encourage their church members to register.
The group also is promoting its agenda and registration with rallies at arenas in several cities, Mills said.
This is the project I've been heading up:
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The band Detonations and the Louisiana Family Forum have had one aim in common this year: Getting people to register to vote.
Monday is the deadline to register for the Nov. 2 election, and political and nonpartisan groups have been pushing people to get their paperwork in on time.
A record 2,866,183 people had registered as of Sept. 25 — a 2.5 percent increase since the 2000 presidential election, according to the secretary of state's office.
The increase is not just population growth: the rate is four times higher than the increase in voting-age population during that time.
The 2000 presidential election, with narrow votes in many states and the contested vote in Florida, showed that each vote does matter, said Jean Armstrong, president of the Louisiana League of Women Voters.
"This year we have one of the most crucial elections in recent history," Armstrong said.
Louisiana residents will vote Nov. 2 for the president, a U.S. senator, all seven U.S. House seats, a state public service commissioner and many local offices. The congressional seats could go to a Dec. 4 runoff if not settled on Nov. 2.
The increase of Louisiana registrants is seen among all racial groups — but not all parties.
The number of registered Democrats shrank 5 percent, to 1.6 million, over the past four years. In the meantime, the number of registered Republicans grew 11 percent, to 682,511. And independents and "other party" voters rose a combined 16 percent.
The Republican Party of Louisiana has spent the past three years targeting fairs, festivals and high schools — especially in rural areas — for get-out-the-vote drives, Executive Director Jon Bargas said.
"When you make it easy for them, then the response is very positive," Bargas said.
The strategy is to tap voters who already have a conservative philosophy but might have grown up in a Democratic household and never changed their party registration, Bargas said.
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The conservative-minded Louisiana Family Forum has found direct contact much better than direct mail, executive director Gene Mills said. It asked ministers from all denominations to learn how to encourage their church members to register.
The group also is promoting its agenda and registration with rallies at arenas in several cities, Mills said.
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