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(The Guardian) New voter registrations surged in swing state Georgia after Harris launched campaign - report
There’s been a sharp increase in people registering to vote in Georgia in the weeks since Kamala Harris launched her campaign, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, with groups that tend to back Democrats making up a large part of the new registrants.
It could be a good sign for the vice-president’s campaign in a state where Democrats reversed years of election losses in 2020, when Joe Biden won its electoral votes and the party’s candidates captured both of its Senate seats.
Here’s more from the Journal-Constitution on the registration trends: Black women led the surge, with a 75% jump in registrations compared with the same 3 1/2 week period in 2020, according to the most recent voter registration data available from the Georgia secretary of state’s office, stretching from July 21 to Aug. 13.
Sign-ups by Hispanic voters grew by an even larger percentage, 114% over the 2020 period, though the raw number of new registrations was lower than other racial groups because there are fewer Hispanic voters overall in the state. And new voters under 30 years old spiked by 76%. Overall, 50% more voters have registered since July 21 than in the same period four years ago.
“It’s shocking. I did not expect to see something of this scope,” said Tom Bonier, a Democratic strategist and CEO of the data company TARA Group. “This has the potential to be a game changer in terms of the presidential race.”
Bonier’s research also found similar leaps in 13 other states since Harris joined the race, and he said Georgia’s growth in registrations reinforces an emerging national trend. More than 46,000 people have registered since July 21, bringing Georgia’s total number of voters to 8.1 million. So far this year, 226,000 new voters have registered.
There’s been a sharp increase in people registering to vote in Georgia in the weeks since Kamala Harris launched her campaign, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, with groups that tend to back Democrats making up a large part of the new registrants.
It could be a good sign for the vice-president’s campaign in a state where Democrats reversed years of election losses in 2020, when Joe Biden won its electoral votes and the party’s candidates captured both of its Senate seats.
Here’s more from the Journal-Constitution on the registration trends: Black women led the surge, with a 75% jump in registrations compared with the same 3 1/2 week period in 2020, according to the most recent voter registration data available from the Georgia secretary of state’s office, stretching from July 21 to Aug. 13.
Sign-ups by Hispanic voters grew by an even larger percentage, 114% over the 2020 period, though the raw number of new registrations was lower than other racial groups because there are fewer Hispanic voters overall in the state. And new voters under 30 years old spiked by 76%. Overall, 50% more voters have registered since July 21 than in the same period four years ago.
“It’s shocking. I did not expect to see something of this scope,” said Tom Bonier, a Democratic strategist and CEO of the data company TARA Group. “This has the potential to be a game changer in terms of the presidential race.”
Bonier’s research also found similar leaps in 13 other states since Harris joined the race, and he said Georgia’s growth in registrations reinforces an emerging national trend. More than 46,000 people have registered since July 21, bringing Georgia’s total number of voters to 8.1 million. So far this year, 226,000 new voters have registered.
