Viral Claim Inflates Number of New Voters in Three States

Para leer en español, vea esta traducción de Google Translate. Quick Take A claim on social media misrepresents the number of people who have registered to vote in three states in 2024 and suggests& the& new voters& are immigrants in the country illegally.& There have been 194,000 newly registered voters in those states — not 2 million —& and there’s no evidence they are immigrants in the U.S. illegally. Full Story About 194,000 new voters have registered since the beginning of 2024 in three states — Pennsylvania, Arizona and Texas. That’s in line with the number of new registrations at this point in 2020. It’s also far short of the 2 million new voters claimed in social media posts that have been circulating recently, one of which was amplified by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk. On X, the social media platform that he owns, Musk reposted a claim from a far-right account that said: “The number of voters registering without a photo ID is SKYROCKETING in 3 key swing states: Arizona, Texas, and Pennsylvania. Since the start of 2024: TX: 1,250,710 PA: 580,513 AZ: 220,731.” It’s true that Pennsylvania and Arizona, which went to former President Donald Trump in 2016 and...