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Democrats continue to outnumber Republicans by more than 100,000 voters in Iowa, according to figures released this week by the Iowa Secretary of State.
As of Aug. 3, there were 683,117 active Democrats compared to 577,223. The largest group of voters, however, was registered as “no party” and totaled 697,512.

Roughly 3 percent of Iowans who voted in the 2008 general election took advantage of a new law allowing Election Day registration, AP’s Mike Glover reports.
And, according to Iowa Secretary of State Mike Mauro, there were few problems associated with the new way of registering.

There are 111,000 more registered Democrats in Iowa than Republicans, according to data released by Iowa Secretary of State’s office.

With a week to go until Election Day, Democrats continue to hold a nearly 2-1 edge in absentee voting in Iowa and the number of registered voters in the Hawkeye state has topped 2 million.

Democratic National Committee chair Howard Dean called Iowa “one of the most important swing states in America” at the University of Iowa Friday.

Part of an annual voter mailing from the Iowa Secretary of State’s office has been re-sent. Errors in a postal bar code were causing some cards to incorrectly get the Elvis treatment — return to sender, address unknown.

A mailing this week from the Secretary of State’s office could be a nice convenience to recently moved voters, or a headache at the polls. Voters who think they’re updating their address may in fact be canceling their registration.