New voter registrations surged among Black women and young people inĀ Pennsylvania whenĀ Kamala Harris became theĀ Democratic nominee for president, according to newly released data.

In the week thatĀ Joe BidenĀ announced he would not run for re-election, new registrations increased by 262 per cent among Black women under 30 compared to the same week in 2020.

Registrations among Black voters increased by 110 per cent, and among voters under 30 years old by 59 per cent, also compared to the same week in 2020.

All of those demographic groups leanĀ heavily towards voting for Democrats.

  • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    How the US manages to pretend to be a modern country without the bare basics of public administration like a civil registry is beyond me.

    If ā€œregistering to voteā€ was a thing anywhere else weā€™d all be decrying it as a major democratic deficit, if not outright disenfranchisement.

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      Ours is a culture of complacency. Even where demonstrably untrue, we for generations regard ourselves as number one in all aspects of nationhood. The propaganda works as designed. We donā€™t expect more because we already think this is as good as it gets.

      This allows the slow erosion of rights and denial of progress that weā€™ve seen over the last 50 years. We wonā€™t be protesting or demanding things most democracies would consider mandatory. Weā€™re too busy trying to get by at this point.

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        Ours is a culture of complacency

        All the better for the oligarchs to manage the peons. Helps if they are ā€œpoorly educatedā€ too - wouldnā€™t want any critical thinking to pop up.