Hillsborough County Young Democrats vow to register 20,000 voters in time for 2012 election

Those "draconian" new regulations that Heberlein referred to are part of what constitutes the elections reform bill passed by the Legislature and signed by Governor Rick Scott this past spring. That bill reduces the number of days that citizens can "early vote" before election day.

The new law also mandates that collections of registration forms must be handed into a supervisor of elections office within 48 hours. Previously, groups like the Hillsborough Young Democrats, the League of Women Voters, and other 3rd party groups had up to 10 days to submit them to their local elections office.

In fact, the League announced after the law was passed that they would no longer do such registration drives, saying the shorter time limit made it almost impossible to do so effectively.

That's where this new group is trying to pick up the slack.

Democrats have also blasted another requirement of the law, which says voters moving from another county can't change their addresses at the polls. The Dems say the measure is meant to suppress the votes of college students.

The Justice Department has already announced that they will "carefully consider" the new elections law.

The Hillsborough Young Democrats will address these issues at a news conference they have scheduled for next Tuesday, July 19, at 12 p.m. in front of the county center in downtown Tampa.