Gillum lays claim to 100K new Florida voters, but numbers don't add up
The former Tallahassee mayor’s Forward Florida Action, a voter registration group founded after the Democrat’s failed 2018 bid for Florida governor, said earlier this month that more than 100,000 new people were added to state voter rolls between April and the end of October because of its efforts.
but …..
But the Florida Division of Elections tells a different story.
Outside groups like Gillum’s added fewer than 27,000 voters to the rolls between January and the end of September, according to state data. And the overwhelming majority of the roughly half-million voters who have registered in the state this year did so at their local motor vehicle office.
My own examination of Florida voter registration numbers shows new registrations for the Dems are lagging in 2019:
Florida Secretary of State site
one scary data point from the news article is the implication that Dems spent $1,000,000 to register 10,000 new voters. That’s something like $100 for a new voter.
The bottom line is that it’s a lot easier to read about impeachment and the various internet jokes about Trump, as opposed to getting out in the Real World and registering voters. But, registering new Dems is the way to beat Trump.