The Daily Journal surveys voting registration in Mississippi’s First Congressional district and expects serious record turnout:
Tens of thousands of new voters will be part of the Nov. 4 election across North Mississippi, circuit clerks report. Lee County saw 1,500 new registrations on Friday. …
The county’s total registration has gone from 51,100 to more than 55,000 – and Loftin says she still has about 4,000 applications to be processed. …
“We’ve got record-breaking applications,” echoed Baretta Mosley, a deputy clerk in Lafayette County.
While the story implies advantage-Democrats, I’m not so sure:
In DeSoto County, more than 10,000 new voters have been added to the rolls this year, 6,000 since May 20, said Circuit Clerk Dale Thompson.
That brings to over 81,000 the registered voters in the home county of Republican congressional candidate and Southaven Mayor Greg Davis.
DeSoto is of course the home county to Republican congressional nominee Greg Davis, and is the most Republican county in the district, possibly the state. On the other hand, I am very aware of Democratic voting registration efforts, and they are like none ever in my knowledge– really serious well-directed hard work. If they’ve also done the work of ID’ing those potential voters for get-out-the-vote efforts, it will pay off.
Here’s some more from the story:
Calhoun County’s Deborah Dunn summed up the 2008 election: “Nothing is typical this year.”…
- Marshall County had 18,734 registered voters in April. Expecting more than 20,000 this time.
- Lee County had 51,100 at the end of 2007. Predicting at least 7,000 more this time.
While Prentiss County’s new registration numbers aren’t so large – up maybe 800 since last year – it’s been busy for new Circuit Clerk Mike Kelly, especially with nine candidates running in a special election for chancery clerk and hometown candidate Childers seeking a full term in the U.S. House.
“We’ll probably push 18,000 voters by the time the dust settles,” he said Monday.
