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New Voter Registrations Continue to Flow into Monroe County Board of Elections

Monroe County Board of Elections

Tuesday is National Voter Registration Day, but  in Monroe County, residents have been registering steadily each month since the beginning of the year.

Monroe County Elections Commissioner Tom Ferrarese says 26,700 new voters have registered since January.  The biggest spike came in March, leading up to the April New York Primary Election, when more than 7,000 registrations were processed. 

There were over 4,000 new registrations in August and nearly 3,000 so far in September. 

At the League of Women Voters, local chapter president Mary Hussong-Kallen says her organization has made an aggressive effort to get more eligible voters signed up to vote this year.

"We've learned that we need to go where people are; we need to partner with other groups because it's all about relationships; it's all about asking rather than setting up and have people come to us,” she said. “We do far more with organizations that have specific clientele than with shopping centers and malls where it's more anonymous."

Voters in New York State have until October 14 to register if they want to vote in the general election in November.

Beth Adams joined WXXI as host of Morning Edition in 2012 after a more than two-decade radio career. She was the longtime host of the WHAM Morning News in Rochester. Her career also took her from radio stations in Elmira, New York, to Miami, Florida.