This week the eyes of the nation moved from the Democratic Primary to the general election, and the Obama campaign is making the same transition. On Saturday, they are officially kicking off Vote for Change, a massive 50-state voter registration drive. The goal of the project is to harness the campaign's legions of volunteers across the country to drive voter participation through the roof come Election Day in November.

Broad voter registration efforts are nothing new, but as The Atlantic's Mark Ambinder reports, this could really be one for the record books:

I gather that the campaign is constructing an incredibly elaborate online interface to allow its more than a million donors and volunteers to directly persuade their neighbors through a variety of media. Names gathered from the voter registration effort will be merged with names gathered through Obama's primary efforts and the names off of the Democratic Party's integrated voter file as well as lists purchased from outside vendors.

On election day, Obama might have more than a million individuals volunteering on his behalf. That should scare the beejeesus out of the McCain campaign and the RNC.

More than a million volunteers.

As The Washington Post notes, the drive has the potential to not only boost Obama's general election chances, but also to benefit down-ticket Democrats nationwide. That includes Illinois.

In the Prairie State, there are four registration drives kicking off tomorrow. Follow the links to learn more about each event:

Waukegan at 10:00 AM

Round Lake at 10:00 AM

Joliet at 9:00 AM

Chicago at 10:00 AM

If you've never volunteered before, have no fear! Each event features a training on how to register voters before participants hit the streets to ensure a Democratic victory in November.