Droves of voters hoping to have a say in the 2016 presidential race rushed to beat the deadline to register for New York primary next month. Melissa Russo reports.
Droves of voters hoping to have a say in the 2016 presidential race rushed to beat the deadline to register for New York primary next month.
"It's quite a surge," said Michael Ryan with the New York City Board of Elections.
Thousands of voters went to registration center Friday to beat the deadline for the state's primaries on April 19.
Since January, more than 73,000 people have registered to vote in the city since the start of the year. 63 percent of those voters are new voters under 30, according to city elections officials.
The numbers lend credence to state officials who said earlier this month that there was an "unprecedented surge" of registrations this year, with more than 20,000 first-time registrants.
One of those first-time voters will likely be Cynthia from Great Neck.
"I'm gonna vote for my future president of the United States of America," she said.
