If you want to vote in the November elections and you aren’t registered yet — you’d better hurry. The registration deadline in five states is this weekend. By the following weekend, the deadline will have passed in more than half the states.
By some estimates, about a quarter of all eligible voters in the United States are not registered. That’s tens of millions of people, a big target for groups, such as Rock the Vote, that are trying to sign up as many new voters as possible.
Rock the Vote says it has already registered some 650,000 young voters nationwide this year. President Heather Smith is encouraged by that, but she says she doubts they’ll hit the 2 million-plus total they saw in 2008.
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