Registration Dives

Put this together with the Howard Stern fans, and you might get a whole new voting bloc:

Patrons at about 75 Wisconsin strip clubs are being asked to forget about the barely dressed, gyrating dancers long enough to register to vote.

Club owners are posting signs, handing out forms and even providing envelopes and stamps—anything to get customers to register….

The adult entertainment industry hopes to sway the 2004 presidential election, saying President Bush's conservative agenda threatens their livelihood and jeopardizes the First Amendment.

"Under the Bush administration, the industry has already taken a serious step backward," said Angelina Spencer, an Ohio club owner and executive director of ACE, a national trade organization of adult night clubs that has 700 members and represents more than 3,800 clubs.