It’s not unusual in booming Baldwin County to have a record number of people registered to vote in a presidential election, and it’s happened again.

Voter rolls as of the Oct. 24 deadline were at 114,581, said Doris Hearn, chairwoman of the county Board of Registrars. The polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday.

There also is a measurable increase in interest among black residents, according to statistics provided by the Board of Registrars.

Between the 2000 and 2004 general elections, the number of black registered voters only increased by about 450 — 7,243 to 7,697. But as of last month’s deadline, the number had jumped by almost 2,000, to 9,658, statistics show.

Baldwin reaches another registration record