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yoters. Many of the young people haven't formed partisan identities yet, he said.
Furthermore, he said, many students are first-time voters.
-- To participate in the Democratic or Republican primary elections, voters must declare a party affiliation, but first-time voters haven't been forced to make a decision yet, he said.
Between the August primary and the Oct. 14 deadline for registering to vote in the Nov. 4 general election, the Republican Party gained the percentage of voters, 7.4 percent, giving a decent percent of the county's registered voters.
The Democrats showed the smallest gain, 5.7 percent, and also the smallest total —24.5 percent of the voters.
Although the Republicans showed the largest gain, the highest percentage of voters registering in the last two weeks did not affiliate.
Cigler said that voters who registered late in the campaign usually were less interested and less involved in politics.
Jaimes estimated that 850 people registered on the last day. However, she said, many of them were re-registered because they had moved within the county.
Many late registrants were young people, she said, and a significant number of them seemed to come from Johnson County.
Jaimes also said she overheard registrants talking about the three "sin" constitutional amendments that will be on the ballot — liquor by
The younger people most frequently
bake their proposed liquor
baked on small scale.
the drink, lottery and pari-mutuel wagering.
However, Cigler said he wasn't impressed with the level of interest in the amendments.
He said that although he had heard that the amendments had boosted registration in some rural areas, he didn't think the amendments would have much effect on voter turnout in eastern Kansas.
Most people assume that the liquor amendment will pass, he said.
"It hasn't really grabbed anybody's attention," Cigler said.
Cigler said off-year elections didn't generate as much enthusiasm as he did in 2014.
percent of voters nationally went to the polls. In off-years such as this one, the national average is about 60 percent, he said.
The 1984 presidential election set the registration record for Douglas Canyon.
"Now if we can just get them to vote," she said.
Now, 38,119 people are registered in Douglas County, which has a total population of more than 70,000. The number will decrease slightly after registrations are canceled for those who re-register in other counties, Jaimes said.
In 1978, the last gubernatorial election with accurate figures, about 58 percent of the 35,445 registered voters in Douglas County actually cast ballots.
Pointing to an egg toss going on nearby, Kline said, "I'm just afraid they're going to ask the politicians to go over there."
Martha Parker, Republican candidate for the 45th District seat in the Kansas House of Representatives, rode in a white convertible belonged to a member of her campaign in the Maple Leaf Parade early Saturday morning.
About seven other candidates from various races also rode in the parade.
Sunday was Democrats' day at the festival, and the balloons were royal blue.
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U. S. Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Kan. and Kline's opponent, walked up Baldwin's High Street, chatting with supporters and shaking hands.
A 1978 Chevrolet Corvette, valued at $7,500, was taken between 10:15 p.m. Thursday and 7:30 a.m. Friday from a parking space in the 600 block of Michigan Street, Lawrence police reported.
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A guitar, valued at $400, was taken about 1:35 a.m. Saturday from a music store in the 1300 block of Cheyenne University Streets, police reported.
A wallet, containing $203 in cash, was taken about 3 p.m. Friday from the counter of a restaurant in the 1500 block of 23rd Street, police reported.
p. m. Friday from a multiple residence in the 3000 block of Seventh Street, police reported.
S. African blacks oppose relocation
An air conditioner, valued at $200, was taken between Oct. 13 and Friday from a vacant house in the 300 block of Oklahoma Street, police reported.
A shotgun, valued at $250,
taken between 10:30 p.m. oct. 8 and 6
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JOHANNESBURG — Residents of a black township north of Johannesburg that was condemned and designated a white area yesterday vowed to fight against their forced removal to a more distant ghetto.
About 1,000 people gathered yesterday in the Oukasie, outside the white town of Brits and 65 miles north of Johannesburg, to discuss the order transferring their land to whites and called a strike Wednesday to protest it.
"We are prepared to die," said community leader Marshall Buys.
Oukasie officially ceased to exist Friday, when the government declared the land available to whites. Two-thirds of the original 15,000 residents refused to move and vowed to resist forced removal from Oukasie to Lethlahab, 12 miles from Brits.
Tembisa, black townships outside Johannesburg.
In Pretoria, police and the government Bureau for Information said yesterday that three people were killed in black racial violence over the weekend.
The bureau said two unidentified black men were found burned to death Saturday in Alexandra and
They were killed when gasoline-soaked tires where tossed around them, a method of killing known as the "necklace."
A police spokesman said Masabata Loate, a 29-year-old student activist and former beauty queen, was hacked with knives and axes late Friday.
He said the motive for her murder was not clear, but her mother, Maria, blamed members of a rival dissident movement.
More than 2,300 people, the majority of them black, have been killed since a wave of violence over the white-minority government's policies of racial separation, known as apartheid, erupted in September 1984.
A spokeswoman for the Transvaal Rural Action Committee said the official reason for razing the Oukasie ghetto was because it would be too expensive to upgrade the area's facilities.
But she said civil rights activists suspected the reason was because a white suburb recently had been built nearby and the government was under pressure to remove the blacks.
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