Andrew Gillum has a math problem.
The former Tallahassee mayor’s Forward Florida Action, a voter registration group founded after the Democrat’s failed 2018 bid for Florida governor, said earlier this month that more than 100,000 new people were added to state voter rolls between April and the end of October because of its efforts.The group hailed the figure as a milestone in a state that President Donald Trump won by fewer than 113,000 votes just three years ago.
With the 2020 presidential election getting into full swing, Democrats and Republicans are racing to win advantage in the battleground state of Florida, where campaigns can be won or lost on the narrowest of margins — and where Democrats have been on the losing end of statewide races going back to the 1990s.
Gillum's Forward Florida Action considers anyone who filled out an application — whether for the first time or just to update their address — as a “new” voter. The rationale is that failures to update address changes could lead to votes not getting counted.“This is not just about adding numbers to the rolls,” Gillum told POLITICO. “This is about getting these folks situated so when we target them on the turnout side that we are basically producing a voter.
Another group allied with Gillum’s effort, New Florida Majority, has turned in fewer than 25,000 voter applications. Gillum set up a new nonprofit, Forward Florida Action, to coordinate his voter registration campaign and shifted $500,000 from his political committee to help pay for it.
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