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Monday, August 27, 2012

Democratic registration all but dries up since new Florida laws

Jacksonville Local News – Jacksonville.com and The Florida Times-Union

TALLAHASSEE | Since a new set of state voting laws went into effect more than a year ago, the number of new Democrats registering in Florida has all but disappeared, according to a Times-Union review.

During the 13 months beginning July 1 the year before elections in 2004 and 2008, registered Democrats increased by an average of 209,425 voters. From 2011 to this year, that number was 11,365.

In Duval County alone there were about 13,000 new Democrats, meaning the rest of the state lost them.

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