Florida Democrats say they're on pace to register 200,000 new voters for November election
Florida Democrats and several allied groups working on voter registration declared Tuesday that they’re now registering new voters at a rate that should add 200,000 Democrats to the state’s rolls for the November election.
The Florida Democratic Party, Forward Florida, Alianza for Progress, and New Florida Majority held a joint press conference in Miami Springs on Tuesday to tout that Florida Democrats now number more than 5 million. Though the party said it has registered only 40,000 new voters since announcing its 200,000 goal last spring, the pace has picked up, Florida Democratic Party Chair Terrie Rizzo said.
“When we launched this program in June of 2019, we were registering 28 people per day. As of today, our team is registering 446 voters each day — and that average is increasing each month. If we stay on our current trajectory, the party alone will collect 200,000 voter registrations by the launch of the General Election — compared to fewer than 20,000 voters registered by the party in advance of the 2018 election,” Rizzo said.
The statewide tallies researched last week by Florida Politics find Florida now has at least 13,698,000 registered voters, up about 420,000 since the general election in 2018. While Republicans made gains, Democrats still hold the slight registration advantage statewide. There now are more than 5 million registered Democrats, roughly 5,076,000 in the latest count. There are 4,821,000 registered Republicans. That gives Democrats a 37% to 35% advantage.
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