Durkin: 'We are experiencing high volume'
By Max Pizarro, PolitickerNJ.com ReporterThe people stood outside the offices of Essex County today in long lines, registration forms in hand, trying to get in under the gun, in the words of County Clerk Chris Durkin.
“We’re experiencing high volume,” said the clerk. “The interest is incredible.” Since the June 2008 primary, numbers of newly registered voters in the Democratic Party stronghold have jumped by 60,000, estimates Durkin, whose office was under siege all day today on voter registration deadline.
“We have 43,000 newly registered voters in the system,” said Durkin. “In the room here we have bags and bags, what we estimate to be more than 17,000. And that’s not accounting for 19 town halls that will be open until 9 p.m. tonight and mail - as long as a registration form is post-marked by today, we’ll take it.”
Durkin said that by Saturday his office will have likely have everything logged into the system.
“We have 401,000 registered voters in Essex, and it will have topped 460,000 in a four and a half month period,” said the clerk of a county where Democrats outnumber Republicans by over 5-1, a ratio that is now closer to 6-1, he added.
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