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Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Boockvar: 56,000 Voter Registration Applications Submitted on Last Day

 Monday was the last day you could register to vote in the upcoming November 3 election. According to Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, 56,000 people submitted online applications on this final day. 

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I wonder if I’m reading this correctly.

Several recent headlines have proclaimed PA has reached or is nearing 9 million registered voters.

https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2020/10/19/pennsylvania-nears-9-million-voters-at-registration-deadline/

State population is 12.8 M, of which 20% are below the age of 18. That brings us down to 10.4 M of voting age. Another 6.8% are foreign born. Say half have received their citizenship. Who knows how many are transitory residents. A reasonable estimate is somewhat less than 10 M eligible voters. Is it credible that >90% of eligible voters are registered?

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/PA

Bernie O'Hare said...

I reported this yesterday.

"As of October 19, based on records maintained by the Department of State, there are now 9,016,163 registered voters in the Commonwealth, consisting of 4,207,190 Democrats (46.66%), 3,506,337 Republicans (38.88%) and 1,302,636 others (14.44%)."

Pa.'s population in 2020 is estimated at 12.8 million. Burt before you go crazy, let me point out that many registered voters are inactive and have not voted for five years. They likely moved and will be purged. I wrote a post about that, too. https://lehighvalleyramblings.blogspot.com/2020/09/democrats-have-high-percentage-of.html

Bernie O'Hare said...

You can check this yourself here. https://www.dos.pa.gov/VotingElections/OtherServicesEvents/VotingElectionStatistics/Pages/VotingElectionStatistics.aspx

Anonymous said...

Why'd these Trump supporters wait this long?

Anonymous said...

Hey! Hold on before you start purging files. Many Allentown occupants(visitors) may be able to use those slots so that they not be wasted.