Young voters here register to vote in record numbers
Barack Obama’s surge to frontrunner status in the Democratic presidential sweepstakes has touched a nerve with young voters in the Chicago area: They’re registering to vote in record numbers.
In the six days since Obama’s decisive victory in the Iowa caucuses, upwards of 10,000 people registered to vote in Chicago, figures seldom -- if ever -- seen for a presidential primary.
On Sunday alone, 200 people showed up to register at the counter of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners’ office at 69 W. Washington. On Monday, there were 1,600 new registrations there.
The regular deadline for registering to vote in the Feb. 5 primary was midnight Monday, but eligible Illinois residents have until Jan. 22 if they go to their local election authority’s office and cast a ballot at the time of registration.
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