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Voter registraion deadline

Voter registraion deadline - Monday, March 24, 2008 at 4:14PM EST

Monday, Mar 24, 2008 @04:14pm EST

It was a very busy day at your local voter registration office.

People signing up to cast their vote In time for the April primary election.

It's a busy deadline day at the Lackawanna county bureau of elections.

Voters like Charles Drumsta registering or switching party affiliations to vote in April's Pennsylvania primary.

"I made sure I got here today. I made it a point," says Drumsta.

Within the past year, more than 800 voters in Lackawanna county have changed party affiliation before deadline day.

Most are switching from a third party to democrat or republican.

For some change has been a long time coming.

Larry Goodfield of Montdale says, "Since I registered to vote when I was 18. So this is very critical for me and to me and the country I think."

Workers are backlogged here, sorting through a spike in applications.

Lackawanna county director of elections Maryann Spellman Young says, "We do want people to understand the importance of participating in an electoral process. At the same time, it means that we're probably, I'm going to estimate, 8, 9, 10 times as busy as we might be in a typical primary election season. But that's ok."

It's a similar situation in Luzerne county.

More than 2 thousand voters have switched to a party line.

All to cast a vote in one of the most important primaries in Pennyslvania history.
 


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