In many swing states, the bump in new voters could be what tips the scales for either of the 2024 presidential candidates.
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"North Carolina, as one example, boasts nearly a half million more registered people in 2024 compared with 2020, when
Trump eked out a win over
Joe Biden in the Tar Heel State by about 74,000 votes.
Over in Michigan, the total count of registered voters has grown by more than 350,000 since October of 2020.
Biden's margin of victory that year over Trump in the midwestern battleground state: a little more than 150,000 votes.
Between August 2020 and the end of July this year, the Arizona electorate grew by nearly 125,000 voters. In Nevada − the least populated of this year's swing states − more than 260,000 additional registered voters have signed up compared with this time four years ago.
In all four swing states where voters register by party, Republicans have grown their share of voters since 2020. In Arizona, Republicans have extended their lead over Democrats, with nearly 260,000 more red than blue registered voters."