Voter registration up again in California

	September 3, 2004		September 5, 2008
Political Party #	Registered % of Total # R		egistered % of TotaAmerican
Independent 304	,066 1.9	5 % 3	33,609 2	.06 %
Democratic	6,754,308 4	3.23 % 7	,101,442 4	3.91 %
Green	156,914 1	.00 % 1	16,334 0	.72 %
Libertarian	86,330 0.	55 % 7	8,935 0.4	9 %
Peace and Freedom 6	7,511 0.4	3 % 5	4,989 0.3	4 %
Republican	5,466,404 3	4.98 % 5	,227,489 3	2.32 %
Decline to state 2	,671,142 1	7.10 % 3	,151,369 1	9.49 %
Miscellaneous	118,505 0	.76 % 1	07,605 0	.67 %
TOTAL	15,625,180	100 % 16,1	71,772 1	00 %

The ranks of registered California voters continue to grow

eading up to the Nov. 4 general election, according to the Secretary of State's latest Report of Registration recently released. The state has added an average of 12,000 new voters a month since May.

The state has nearly 16.2 million registered voters, close to 550,000 more than it had at this time before the last general election four years ago. The percentage of people who are eligible to vote and are registered has dipped from 70.9 percent in 2004 to 70.1 percent now.

Registration has increased all year, with more than 630,000 new voters registering since January. California has gained almost 48,000 new voters since May 19.

The date reflects updates to the voter registration rolls, including removing registrants who have died, moved out of state or have been determined ineligible to vote, as well as the addition of new registrants.

To read the complete report, request a hard copy by calling the Secretary of State's Communications Office at (916) 653-6575 or go to www.sos.ca.gov/elections.