The reason we care about registration is because a voter registration gap means a voter participation gap.
Some former officials and political consultants said that the Republican voter registration gap could only be overcome under extraordinary circumstances — a citywide focus on crime before Mayor Giuliani was elected in 1993, or the Sept. 11 attacks weeks before Mayor Bloomberg's initial victory.
The mega-mailing dramatizes the opportunity for voter sign-ups in places where the registration gap is widest and for civic forces to mount a sustained drive.
The key to increasing Hispanics' share of the vote is "closing the registration gap," said Clarissa Martinez, director of civic engagement and immigration for NCLR, a Latino organization also known as the National Council of La Raza.
The registration gap between blacks and whites is minimal and sometimes non-existent in the covered states.
As Roberts's majority opinion noted, the voter registration gap between whites and blacks in George Wallace's segregationist Alabama was 50 percentage points.
Voting rights activists note that the registration gap is widest among young people.
"She won Orange County because this county has been urbanizing for the past decade, has become more diverse and the registration gap between Republicans and Democrats has been closing".
Deficiencies included the lack of guidelines for pesticide registration, gaps in pesticide procurement practices, and a lack of training of vector control decision makers (Matthews et al. 2011; van den Berg et al. 2011).
The data displayed clearly that registration gaps between blacks and whites had shrunk dramatically.
