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Registering the Rising American Electorate: Now is the Time

September 28, 2015
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As part of our year-round voter registration program, the Voter Participation Center is helping to register unmarried women, people of color, and young voters—the groups that make up the Rising American Electorate (RAE)—for the 2016 election. VPC is mailing voter registration forms to 1.4 million RAE members in 8 states. (You can read more about our mail program here.)

The chart below shows the huge number of unregistered members of the RAE—particularly unmarried women—and the opportunity to reshape the electorate in these eight states.

  Rising American Electorate Unmarried Women
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Colorado 49% 1,149,895 62% 695,784 38% 22% 546,725 66% 283,499 34%
Florida 58% 4,818,782 60% 3,269,845 40% 26% 2,184,986 60% 1,452,963 40%
Iowa 45% 601,659 59% 413,038 41% 23% 325,929 62% 198,167 38%
North Carolina 56% 2,439,168 63% 1,406,290 37% 26% 1,147,794 64% 656,032 36%
Nevada 62% 616,901 53% 543,057 47% 26% 266,875 55% 215,404 45%
Pennsylvania 47% 2,531,540 57% 1,947,017 43% 24% 1,404,064 61% 892,563 39%
Virginia 56% 1,941,775 59% 1,328,439 41% 24% 831,891 59% 568,104 41%
Wisconsin 45% 1,137,583 60% 759,954 40% 24% 637,094 63% 370,210 37%

(VEP: Vote-Eligible Population)

Data Source: Current Population Survey: Voting and Registration Supplement, 2014. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census.