Title: Experts Predict Huge Turnout in 2020 | Elections | US News
Headings: Preparing for a Voter Surge
Preparing for a Voter Surge
Experts predict record voter turnout in 2020, but will it materialize?
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Content: It doesn't work." Trump, Braynard says his own research shows, did best among those who initially said they were least likely to vote in the 2016 election – and the GOP will need them again next year. Democrats, meanwhile, are eyeing another opportunity: votes from the "emerging American electorate," younger and minority voters who comprise an increasing chunk of the electorate but didn't turn out in high enough numbers in 2016 to elect Democrat Hillary Clinton. Activists are starting early this cycle with voter registration efforts – not only in states Democrats almost certainly need to get back in 2020 for an Electoral College win (Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin) but in states with substantial Latino or African American populations, such as Arizona, Georgia, Florida and Texas. Texas is not considered a battleground state now but has been moving toward that status, largely because of increased urbanization. Registration does not always translate into a vote at the ballot box, but it's a critical indicator in the U.S. Less than 56% of voting-age Americans turned out to vote in 2016, putting the nation 26th among 35 industrialized democracies, a 2018 Pew Research Center study reported. But the study also found that nearly 87% of registered voters cast a ballot that year, indicating that getting eligible voters registered is a key hurdle. Sanders on the Trail
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Other hurdles to registration and voting remain, however, in some states that have passed laws making it harder to register people to vote or which have reduced polling places. Some of those efforts are being challenged in the courts.