Based on posts here I see that in 2018 we had about 153 million registered voters, but sources claim that in 2020 we have about 211, maybe 213 million.
That would mean an increase of 60 million (give or take) in two years.
Gee that seems like a lot.
Two years is 730 days, which is 17520 hours, which is 1051200 minutes.
Sixty million divided by 1051200 is a touch over 57 (57.078, it runs out 15 digits past the decimal).
That would mean you'd have to have 57 voters register every minute of every day for the last two years.
When you consider state government working hours (for someone to process registrations) are only maybe 35-40 a week for 50 weeks, that would make the number even more absurd - 250 per minute.
I suppose you could pick a state, determine how many new registrations, do the same math then divide by each county to see how many per county per minute to see if that's really feasible.
Is my math wrong? 57 a minute, is that possible? Do actual state numbers match up anywhere?
How many on the 3rd? Maybe more importantly, how many on the 4th from around 12-5am?
Voter turn out was expected to be higher than normal. I myself registered to vote in 2018 - I had given up hope after participating in the elections of 2012.
60 million does sound really high - but Trump did light up the base and voter registration drives from both parties were a thing.
The key here is 57, per minute. A touch over one per state each minute.
Somebody less lazy than I am would figure out the population ratio of each state and figure out how that would have to distribute per state, EG maybe 1 in RI but 12 in CA etc.
57 a minute would be 82,080 per day, might make the proportion easier to work out.
Oh let's see, CA is 12.15% of US pop based on a web search, so 9973 registrations per day, usually registered with your county so 58 counties, that's still 172 per day, although presumably it would be higher in cities and lower in rural areas.
I would have to think you could dig and verify how many new registrations in a county in a year, but it's more than I want to get into.