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The deadline for normal registration to vote is midnight Tuesaday. But eligible Illinois residents will have their chance to register up until and including on Election Day.

More voter registration applications arrived Monday afternoon at the office of Cook County Clerk David Orr.

“Registration in suburban Cook is going to be significantly up over four years ago,” Orr said. “My guess is we’ll easily be more than 25,000 registrations up over four years ago.”

And city residents account for most of the 100,000 new voter registrations collected by “Every Vote Counts,” a coalition that targeted low to moderate income neighborhoods and young people.

posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, Oct 7, 14 @ 11:27 am

Comments

Rauner, to himself;

“Hope the NRI stuff goes well today…”

Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Oct 7, 14 @ 11:29 am
Rich, You reported on May 5th how the Dems were going to start registration much earlier and be more organized than 4 years ago. It seems the effort hatched at the AFL CIO meeting back then has bore fruit. http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20140503/ISSUE01/305039962/how-bruce-rauner-is-changing-the-illinois-democratic-party

Comment by Nonplussed Tuesday, Oct 7, 14 @ 11:32 am
I expected Rauner Team would figure out some way to leverage his massive Term Limits organization for registration and GOTV drives. Even if a small portion could be reactivated, that would be a lot.
We shall see.

Comment by walker Tuesday, Oct 7, 14 @ 11:41 am
@walker

I thought the problem with the term limits effort was too many faulty signatures. Wasn’t it close to 50% invalid?

How to you do GOTV with a list that is 50% invalid?

Comment by Bill White Tuesday, Oct 7, 14 @ 11:43 am
I saw this story last night on ABC7 and when I heard that 100,000 number for Chicago I thought that, wow, if even half those people show up and vote, that’s going to be bad news for Rauner. And I expect they will. If they’ve got enough people to register that many new voters, they probably have enough to get them out to vote.

Comment by OldSmoky2 Tuesday, Oct 7, 14 @ 11:43 am
Bill White: I meant his fellow funders, organizers and petition gatherers. At least some of them.

Comment by walker Tuesday, Oct 7, 14 @ 11:47 am
Delete my comment.

It was the Fair Maps people I was thinking about.

After further review, I agree with walker

Comment by Bill White Tuesday, Oct 7, 14 @ 11:47 am
Bill White: Oh, and you’re thinking of the remapping petition. The term limits one passed the signature hurdles.

Comment by walker Tuesday, Oct 7, 14 @ 11:50 am
**I expected Rauner Team would figure out some way to leverage his massive Term Limits organization for registration and GOTV drives.**

Wasn’t that the whole point of the obviously unconstitutional term limit proposal?

Comment by AlabamaShake Tuesday, Oct 7, 14 @ 11:50 am
What is the plan to get these 125,000 newly registered voters to cast ballots?

For some reason I remember the number 17%… as in, “Only 17% of newly registered voters vote.”

Comment by Carl Nyberg Tuesday, Oct 7, 14 @ 11:59 am
But there is going to be massive voter fraud if you cant provide a DNA sample and Retina scan before you vote!

Comment by Del Clinkton Tuesday, Oct 7, 14 @ 12:01 pm
Bruce favors same-day registration, unlike all the GOP legislators who voted against it.
https://capitolfax.com/2014/06/10/rauner-supports-same-day-registration-bill/

Comment by Anon Tuesday, Oct 7, 14 @ 12:06 pm
It’s my understanding that you can register on Election Day ONLY at the County Clerks office in your county of residence. That’s also where you have to cast your vote. And, I think, the ballot there will be of a different color. That’s what a downstate County Clerks office told me.

This is to make sure you haven’t already voted elsewhere.

Oh. The law sunsets on November 5. 2014 - one day after the
Governors election. Quinn trying to help Quinn.

Only in Illinois does this stuff happen. You couldn’t make up something this convoluted if you tried.

Comment by Jechislo Tuesday, Oct 7, 14 @ 2:00 pm
==Only in Illinois does this stuff happen.==

Don’t kid yourself.

Comment by Demoralized Tuesday, Oct 7, 14 @ 2:08 pm