BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — State officials say recent voter registration drives in advance of the Nov. 4 presidential election helped boost voter rolls in the past year by nearly 94,000 with more than half of them black registrants.
Elections officials report that some 2.9 million Louisiana voters will be able to cast ballots in the election in which Republican John McCain faces Democrat Barack Obama the first black presidential nominee of a major political party.
Early voting in Louisiana begins Tuesday for the presidential, congressional and other elections on the Nov. 4 ballot.
Secretary of State Jay Dardenne said the 2.9 million voter registration total didn’t break records in spite of active voter sign-up efforts by Democratic- and Republican-aligned groups.
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