A True Story - from a Blair County Republican, Lois Kaneshiki

Aug 5, 2010. Yesterday I began canvassing my neighborhood to register new voters.

One house I visited had no registered voters. I don't know the people well but I have spoken to the wife before and knew a little bit about them.

She answered and I asked her if they would like to register. She had never changed her address after moving (a couple years ago -- not uncommon) and her husband was not registered.

I offered to stay while she filled out her forms and I would take them in for her if she wanted. She invited me in and we all had a nice chat while she filled the forms out.

She asked her husband how he wanted to register and he said "Independent." (He was cooking dinner all the while.) I told him did he know that if he registered Independent he CANNOT vote in the Primary Election??

He did NOT know that. He registered REPUBLICAN.

How many Independents out there register that way because NO ONE TELLS THEM THEY CAN'T VOTE IN THE PRIMARY?

I felt very good about that visit and I am making a trip to the courthouse today to bring their forms in.

Can you imagine what we could accomplish if all the committee people were working their precincts?