Public officials urged eligible Colorado residents to make sure they were registered to vote and that their registration information was current on Tuesday as part of National Voter Registration Day.

It was the strongest push yet for the occasion, which launched in 2012, said Secretary of State Wayne Williams, who started a day full of appearances and events at the crack of dawn with several bookings on morning TV shows.

Although Colorado ranks third in the nation among states with the highest percentage of eligible residents registered – a percentage point or so behind Michigan, which has the highest registration rate, and North Carolina – he said there was no reason the state shouldn’t top the list.

While most of the civic-minded people who turned out for the day’s events were already registered, Williams noted that a cameraman and an editor at two TV stations he visited took the chance to update their registration online in a matter of minutes, using a tablet he carried to access the GoVoteColorado.com website.