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The final voter registration numbers for the 2004 Presidential election are out (http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections and http://clerk-recorder.buttecounty.net), and despite huge voter registration drives throughout the country the percentage of eligible voters to register in California is up just 1.81 percent from 2000’s numbers. In Butte County the jump was more than double that, with 79.92 percent of eligible voters registering in 2004 as compared to 75.3 percent in 2000. Below are the registration numbers by party in Butte County, with breakdowns for each city (or town). There was a decline in the percentage of registrants for the two major parties from 2000 to 2004 (R: down 1.22 percent; D: down 2.52 percent) while “declined to state” applicants rose (up 3.16 percent from 2000).

R D AI G L P&F NL Misc. DTS TOTAL

Butte County 50,831 42,901 3,345 2,605 851 571 101 830 21,293 123,318

City of Biggs 329 296 15 4 2 1 2 4 133 786

City of Chico 13,966 15,277 993 1392 323 183 29 283 8,094 40,540

City of Gridley 906 918 55 18 7 9 4 9 377 2,303

City of Oroville 2,267 2,065 254 46 34 31 12 36 1,052 5,797

Town of Paradise 8,213 5,738 498 245 104 106 13 141 2,719 17,777

Unincorporated Area 25,140 18,607 1,530 900 381 241 41 357 8,918 56,115

R=Republican; D=Democrat; AI=American Independent; G=Green; L=Libertarian; P&F=Peace & Freedom; NL=Natural Law; Misc.= Miscellaneous; DTS=Decline to State