Last weekend, Florida Republicans celebrated their party passing 1 million more registered voters than Florida Democrats, overturning an advantage dating back to Reconstruction.
Voter registration numbers are used as a scorecard by political parties, campaigns and pundits in between elections. Conventional wisdom holds that the more registered Republicans, the bigger the universe of voters for the GOP to draw from and the more likely they are to win elections. If a voter’s registration is removed or modified, the voter is far less likely to remediate that in time to cast a ballot in the fall.
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