Voters play a fairly significant role in elections. It seems like a relatively obvious point, but it seems to have been lost by all but one of the top tier Presidential candidates.

The goal of any campaign is to reach, identify, and mobilize voters. The common thread of all voters is they're registered.

Only one of the Presidential candidates has an option for interested visitors to register to vote.

If you go to the New York State Board of Elections website, it says that the next primary is September 18, 2007. That is, more than two months ago.

Just as people, particularly young voters, are beginning to pay attention to the presidential race, 14 states have already closed their voter registration with another 5 set to do so within the next week!

Enormous efforts have been made by campaigns and public interest groups to register people to vote on November 4th. According to the Election Assistance Commission more than 2 million poll workers will be working at over 200,000 polling places this election. Unfortunately, what these new voters don’t know is that just registering to vote may not ensure that they are able to vote on Election Day or that their vote will be counted.

Senator Feinstein sent a letter to the Social Security Administration on September 23rd asking for the postponement until after the election of the SSA's maintenance effort that will shut down its database for three days. Yesterday, the Senator received a letter back from the SSA refusing to change its maintenance schedule.

With his in-game ad-buy on XBox Live, Obama is bucking the Democratic Party's history of maligning video games and reaching out to a 21st century American constituency.