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Al Schmidt: “The percentage of registrations coming to the counties from…”

Featuring: Al Schmidt, Republican | Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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Published | Video Starts at 22:19

One is the number of the percentage of votes coming from PennDOT to our counties who are really the people who run elections in Pennsylvania. They process the applications, registration, mail in doubt, and all the rest. The percentage of registrations coming to the counties from PennDOT has increased by 125% since we implemented AVR in 2023. The percentage of new registrations, which is really where it matters, right? Because the other ones are change of name, change of party, change of address, all important. (22:19–22:31)

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Asserts a 125% increase in voter registrations from PennDOT since automatic voter registration was implemented.

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