Correction: Online Voter Registration

A few weeks back, I wrote a post about the number of new voters that had registered using the Rock the Vote/CREDO Action Widget and the Declare Yourself online registration form. At the time, I noted that all together over half a million new young voters had been registered this cycle.

This was incorrect.

Those figures did not represent the total number of registrations, but rather the total number of people who had accessed one of the two online registration tools and downloaded the registration form. As of yet there are no confirmed numbers for how many new voters actually complete the registration process.

For what it is worth, I’m told that somewhere between 70 to 80 percent of people do complete the registration process by election day (based on numbers from 2004).