[EL] does anyone know where to find no. of registered voters in each state as of 2016 general election?

[Charles H Stewart]

While there are issues with the data (as there always is with voter registration stats), the one place I know of with (roughly) comparable registration statistics for all states is the EAC NVRA biennial report.  Here’s the link to the link to the most recent report: https://www.eac.gov/assets/1/6/2016_EAVS_Comprehensive_Report.pdf

Charles

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Charles Stewart III
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From: Law-election <law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu> On Behalf Of Richard Winger
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Subject: [EL] does anyone know where to find no. of registered voters in each state as of 2016 general election?

Although I regularly gather data on the number of registered voters in each state, I only do it for the states that have partisan registration.  But now I need to know for every state, including the 19 without registration by party, and I am surprised that I can't find it in one place on the internet.


The Census Bureau purports to have this, but its data is not at all accurate.  I am very surprised that it shows California as 16,096,000 (Census rounds off this data).  But every California registration tally during 2016, from the Secretary of State of California, ranged from 17,300,000 to 19,000,000.  Never was California as low as the census figure.  Nor was California as low as the census data in 2015 either.


Professor Michael McDonald has data on the number of votes cast in each state, and the number of individuals who could potentially have registered and voted.  But unless I am not seeing it, there is no registration data there.

Richard Winger 415-922-9779 PO Box 470296, San Francisco Ca 94147
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