The Virginia State Board of Elections announced today that nearly half a million new voters registered in Virginia this year:
RICHMOND, Oct. 15 — Nearly a half million people registered to vote this year in Virginia, according to statistics released today by the State Board of Elections.
Subtracting people who died or moved away, Virginia now has 436,000 more registered voters than it did on Jan. 1
The final registration figures were released after elections officials finished tallying the rush of applications it received in the days and weeks before the Oct. 6 registration deadline.
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According to the State Board of Elections, about 60 percent of the newly registered voters are under the age of 34.
Virginia does not register voters by political party, but jurisdictions with a history of supporting Democratic presidential candidates appears to have the largest share of new registrants.
In heavily Democratic Richmond, for example, the registration rolls grew by 17 percent this year.
There was also a big increase in college towns. But the registration rolls in many traditional Republican counties in western Virginia grew by less than 7 percent this year.
Remember this come Election Day — if you start hearing that turnout in Virginia is breaking records, especially in northern Virginia and the Richmond area, then you can assume that it will be very bad news for the GOP.
