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An analysis claiming one million voters switched to the GOP last year was fatally flawed
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An analysis claiming one million voters switched to the GOP last year was fatally flawed

The authors misused voter file data, conflating estimates of party ID with real changes in registration. The error was fixed by other analysts who find parity in party-switching since 2020

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Jun 30, 2022
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On Monday, the Associated Press reported that “More than 1 million voters across 43 states have switched to the Republican Party over the last year, according to voter registration data… A political shift is beginning to take hold across the U.S. as tens of thousands of suburban swing voters who helped fuel the Democratic Party’s gains in recent years a…

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