Texas shatters voter registration records again as Trump-Biden election draws closer
exas does not require voters to pick a party to register. But voter registration growth in various regions has given both Democrats and Republicans cause to be optimistic going into November.
About one-third of the new voters since November 2018 come from three counties: Harris, Travis and Bexar — all deeply blue since 2016. That has Democrats convinced that they are adding to their base of support.
But for Republicans, voter registration has been surging in places such as Bell, Williamson, Denton, Collin and Montgomery counties — suburban communities that Trump carried in 2016.
The surge in voter registration over the last four years is even eclipsing the state’s population growth. While Texas has seen its population grow an estimated 5 percent in four years, voter registration has increased by over 10 percent.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Texas-voter-registration-surges-trump-biden-record-15586286.php