A national group called Women's Voices Women Vote is targeting 9,324 unmarried women in Maine as part of a nationwide voter registration drive.

The group says it has contacted Maine election officials to prepare them that they will be receiving more voter registrations as a result of the drive.

According to stats from the group, 67,994 unmarried women in Maine were eligible to vote in 2006, but failed to do so.

New Obama office in Portland

House Speaker Glenn Cummings, D-Portland, Gov. John Baldacci and State Auditor Neria Douglass will open a new campaign office for presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama on Saturday.

The "Campaign for Change" office will open at 11 a.m. Saturday at 1037 Forest Ave. in Portland.

Democratic strategist to address Lobsterbake

Tad Devine, a political strategist who heads the Washington D.C. based consulting firm Devine Mulvey LLC, will address the Maine Democratic Party's 2008 Muskie Lobsterbake on Saturday in Scarborough.

Democrats are charging $100 a head for the lobsterbake, an annual affair honoring former U.S. Sen. Edmund Muskie.