The Republican Party voter ID registration exodus has started

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In Hillsborough and Pinellas counties, more than 1,000 Republicans left the party in the three days after the mob attack. In Hillsborough County, voting registration records show 407 Republicans became mostly No Party Affiliation or Independents.

As a comparison, voting records show during the same three-day period last year, 65 Republicans and 100 Democrats left their parties.

In Pinellas, 625 Republicans left the party in the three days after the riots. Of that, more than 500 became NPA's or Independent. Fewer than 100 became Democrats.

Also by comparison, during the same three days last year, 89 Republicans and 91 Democrats left their parties.

"But the partisan exit to NPA's reflects disgust overall with the two parties — or that party that it's abandoning — but an unwillingness to go to the other side," MacManus said. "It's not at all surprising, in light of the gravity of the situation. It's much more likely to be happening in the very urban and suburban parts of the state — more than the rural parts of the state — but not surprising."


York Dispatch

In Cumberland County, 192 people have changed their party registration since the Jan. 6 riot. Only 13 switched to the GOP — the other 179 changed to Democrat, independent or a third party, according to Bethany Salzarulo, the director of the bureau of elections.

In Linn County, Iowa, home to Cedar Rapids, more than four dozen voters dropped their Republican Party affiliations in the 48 hours after the Capitol attack. They mostly switched to no party, elections commissioner Joel Miller said, though a small number took the highly unusual step of cancelling their registrations altogether.

There were similar numbers of people fleeing the GOP in many of the state's biggest counties in South Florida.

The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported in Miami-Dade, the state’s most populous county, more than seven times as many Republicans as Democrats changed their party registrations in the aftermath of the violence in Washington, D.C. The ratio of Republican to Democratic switches was almost as high in Palm Beach County, the third most populous.