Another, more labor-intensive, consists in manual examination of new registrants.

She added that new registrants are not always new voters, but people who have moved from one town to another.

City officials hope the drive will swell local voter rolls by at least 500,000 new registrants before the 1988 Presidential election.

It has since stopped accepting new registrants from September 22, 2010, and began to wind down the regional server gradually.

Those changes and others will probably reduce the number of new Democratic registrants.

That could add millions of new registrants to the voting rolls.

"We've gotten at least 2,000 new registrants from this, it looks like."

But this year, about 25 percent of all our new registrants have listed themselves as independents.

He added that most new registrants enrolled either as Democrats or independents.

Mr. Perosino said 41,197 of the new registrants this year were 18 to 24 years old.