https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/new-jw-study-voter-registration I’ve seen a lot of people share this. Bottom line up front: this is very wrong. Judicial Watch uses two different data sets to come up with their percentages. The first data set they use is the actual registered voters as reported by different counties, I think as of September. The other number they use is “ACS 5 YR CVAP (2018).” That is “Citizen Voting Age Population (CVAP) Special Tabulation From the 2014-2018 5-Year American Community Survey.” I think it would suffice to note that this data doesn’t go beyond 2018, and we’re comparing to 2020. So, that there would be differences 2 years later is not surprising, and of course it completely invalidates any claims that numbers don’t match. You can’t compare two different data series that differ in time! It gets worse though. The CVAP spans 5 years because it’s an average of
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https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/new-jw-study-voter-registration I’ve seen a lot of people share this. Bottom line up front: this is very wrong. Judicial Watch uses two different data sets to come up with their percentages. The first data set they use is the actual registered voters as reported by different counties, I think as of September. The other number they use is “ACS 5 YR CVAP (2018).” That is “Citizen Voting Age Population (CVAP) Special Tabulation From the 2014-2018 5-Year American Community Survey.” I think it would suffice to note that this data doesn’t go beyond 2018, and we’re comparing to 2020. So, that there would be differences 2 years later is not surprising, and of course it completely invalidates any claims that numbers don’t match. You can’t compare two different data series that differ in time! It gets worse though. The CVAP spans 5 years because it’s an average of