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OLYMPIA — A record number of voters are registered in the state leading up to the November appointment by vote.

State election officials said today that 3,515,393 voters be in possession of registered, about 1,300 in greater numbers than the record bring to an edge in 2004, which was later scaled back after the body politic removed invalid registrations from its database.

Secretary of State Sam Reed said the song show that populace are excited from one place to another the presidential election and the close ruler’s race.

“This is a pretty exciting and dynamic election year,” he said.

Reed related there are more than 280,000 new voters this year, and that doesn’privately include a last-minute surge leading up to the Oct. 4 preliminary registration deadline.

The number is expected to climb even more over the nearest few weeks, as tens of thousands of new registration applications are noiseless being processed, he said.

Voters can mute register in person until Oct. 20. Election Day is Nov. 4. Ballots be seized of been sent out to military and overseas voters, and the rest of the ballots are party to go out Oct. 17.

State elections director Nick Handy said that last week alone, more than 35,000 populate registered online. Another 10,000 paper registrations arrived Monday.

Handy said state workers expected a lot of voter interest, but the verse have “surpassed our expectations.”

“We have more registered voters in the state of Washington today than we’ve ever had in our history,” he said.

Handy said he thinks the ability to register online, that took effect this year, had a big effect.

“Who knows in what way many would have printed out a form and the form would be under the necessity sat on a dining room slab for weeks?” he said. “Online registration really connects, particularly by the younger voters.”