HAMILTON — Academy Award-winner Cuba Gooding Jr. is scheduled to be in Hamilton today, Oct. 6, for a voter registration push as the deadline nears.

Hamilton will be among four stops Gooding will make as he headlines "Register for Change" events today across Western Ohio to urge state residents to register to vote before today's deadline, according to the Obama for America campaign.

At each stop, Gooding will rally supporters and volunteers to register to vote and cast an early ballot for Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., according to the campaign.

He is scheduled to be in Hamilton at 9 a.m. at Bailey Square at Second and Chestnut streets. He is later scheduled to appear in Dayton, Lima and Toledo, according to the campaign.

Those who wish to register to vote or change their address for next month's election may do so between 8:30 a.m. and 9 p.m. today at the Butler County Board of Elections, 1802 Princeton Road. For more information, call (513) 887-3700.

In Butler County, as of Wednesday, Oct. 1, there were 255,742 registered voters — 17,720 more than the 238,022 voters registered for the 2004 presidential election. Butler County Board of Elections Director Betty McGary said last week the county has logged more than 10,000 new voter registrations since the March primary and more are coming every day.