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Democrats want 70,000 new Louisiana voters
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Jun 08, 2008 12:54pm |
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| Category | General |
| News Date | Sunday, June 8, 2008 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | NEW ORLEANS -- A Democratic organization, hoping to capitalize on Barack Obama's presidential run, has obtained the names of thousands of people in four major parishes to be added to Louisiana's voter registration lists.
The group is called Voting Is Power and is financed by the national Democratic Party.
Volunteers have been canvassing neighborhoods since February, collecting personal information and signatures from as many new potential voters as possible, said Brian Welsh, a spokesman for Louisiana Victory, an umbrella group coordinating Democratic voter drives.
The group is targeting Orleans, Jefferson, East Baton Rouge and Caddo parishes with the goal of registering 70,000 new voters in Louisiana before the November election, Welsh said.
New Orleans voter registrar Sandra Wilson said she has received about 20,000 applications this year. There are about 278,452 registered voters currently on New Orleans rolls.
"I'm happy we're getting them, but I'm telling you we're inundated," she said.
While Voting Is Power has sent in batches of applications for months, registrars have begun to see a pattern of misinformation on the forms, including duplicates, cards filled out with different colors of ink, or using the names of pets or dead people.
Jefferson Parish registrar Dennis DiMarco, a white Republican, recently saw a card that had his name and listed him as a black Democrat.
"They flattered me by making me younger," DiMarco said. "I did appreciate that." |
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