Voter Registration Deadline Passes
By Byron LaMasters
But not before the Travis County Democratic coordinated campaign registered 12,424 voters yesterday alone.
Over in Houston, the Harris County Democratic Party's Sharpstown office registered over 2500 in their voter registration drive.
Good job everyone!
Update: My father just sent me this New York Times article on how he thinks we managed to do so well with voter registration here in Travis County:
The Austin event, Burlesque the Vote, was the brainchild of Audrey Maker, a local burlesque artist and activist, who brought together 14 strip acts, both amateurs and professionals, for an evening of erotica. By 10 p.m. 300 people packed the club.
Ms. Maker had completed the coursework to become a Texas deputy registrar, and after the event ended, she rushed a box of new registrations to the local tax assessor's office, ahead of the Monday deadline in Texas to register for the November election.
Over the last six months a range of adult performers - from performance art-oriented burlesque dancers at Emo's to harder-core strip clubs to online pornographers - have conducted voter-registration drives.
Well, whatever works, I guess. I can't complain.
Posted by Byron LaMasters at October 5, 2004 04:26 PM
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In 2000, the one day registration total on the last day was around 4300, and that was the highest ever at that point. In addition, the University Democrats West Mall table and University Co-op location until midnight provided an estimated 3000-4000 of that 12,424 according to those in the office last night. That bring the UDems total for the semester to between 7000-8000 registered students. We literally registered people at midnight.
