While pundits continue to debate what the fallout of the Supreme Court’s leaked Roe vs. Wade decision could mean for women across the nation as well as what the leak itself means for the highest court in the land, the least debatable part may end up being the effect it has on the ballot box.
A new study by Vote.org says that online voter registration and requests for mail-in ballots have seen an incredible jump in the last week. A nearly 200% spike, in fact, and many of those requests are coming from women.
Of the voters looking to be registered nationwide since the leak, 65% of them are women.
In addition, nearly half of the new registrations have come from voters under the age of 35, just over 47%. That’s a 14% increase over the previous week.
With the Democrats looking to codify the abortion access that the Roe vs. Wade had made a federal right but likely lacking the votes to do so, it will be interesting to see if this wave of riled up and newly-registered voters translates to a blue vote in six months at the mid-term elections.
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