Democrats Need a Cease and Desist on Voter Registration Drives

Ok, not literally, but dang it man when are we going to get the hint? It's not about registering people to vote anymore. Our 100% efforts need to be placed into getting these people to actually show up to vote. After years of voter registration drives at all of our political and nonpolitical events, we have done a phenomenal job at getting people registered to vote. The question is, does registering people to vote equate to increased voter turnout? The answer to that question is no. So why are we stuck in this cycle? Let's look at some numbers.

 In South Carolina, there are 2,318 voting precincts. For those of you reading who are unsure of what a precinct is, you can compare it to a neighborhood. In those precincts, we have 3,686,973 registered voters. The population of South Carolina is roughly 5,300,000. This means more than half of the state is registered to vote. But now let's look at how many of those 3.6 million actually participate in the voting process. In the 2022 Democratic primary out of that 3.6 million people, we had only 187,606 people actually vote. I know some of you may be thinking that well this is a ruby red Republican state. Their numbers must be higher right? True, but not by much. Out of the 3.6 million people the Republicans only had 374,172 people to vote. This gives us a grand whopping total of 561,778 total people who participated. This number equates to about 0.105 or roughly 10%.