Women outpacing men in county voter registrations
A recent study shows that more women in Pennsylvania are registering to vote since the U.S. Supreme Court decision on June 24 reversing Roe v. Wade and overturning the constitutional right to abortion.
Target Smart Insights, a data analysis company, reports women in Pennsylvania are out-registering men by a 12-point margin.
In Washington County, women have outpaced men in voter registration by 37.5%, according to data provided by the Washington County Election Office. The data was not available by press time Monday for Tuesday’s story published in the Observer-Reporter.
Since the June 24 ruling, 411 of the county’s 692 new voter registrations have been women, and 281 have been men.
Of the women who have registered to vote, 199 registered as Democrats and 113 registered as Republicans. The others have registered as no party, another party or independent.
Elections Director Melanie Ostrander said that generally, Washington County voters increasingly are registering as Republican or changing their party affiliation to Republican.
Statistics from the Greene County Election Office were not available Tuesday.