Texas Democrats roll out major voter registration push
The Texas Democratic Party (TDP) on Monday rolled out its “Texas Voter Registration Week," a push to get 1 million Texans registered to vote, the latest effort by the party to turn Texas at least partially blue in November.
Based on internal modeling, Texas Democrats hope to reach a high number of young Texans of color who are not yet registered to vote. Of the total number of Texans reached, the party is aiming for around 40 percent to be Black and about 35 percent to be Latino.
Increasing voting participation in the Lone Star State has long been a goal of the TDP.
During the 2018 midterm elections, Texas ranked 41st in voter participation at 46.3 percent, 4 points below the national mark of 50.3 percent.
“Our basic theory is that the more voters that we register, the more likely the state is to turn blue,” Abhi Rahman, director of strategic communications for the Texas Democratic Party, told The Hill in an earlier interview. “We feel like for every Republican voter that’s unregistered, there’s three or four Democrats that are unregistered.”
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