This one is perhaps less strange than the five posted earlier today. People who register to vote later are more likely to vote. James Gimpel, Daron Shaw, and Joshua Dyck looked at 2000 data from six states to uncover the following result:
People who registered to vote the week of the registration deadline were 16 percent more likely to vote than those who registered one year from the deadline.
This finding makes sense on the logic that late registers’ interest in the campaign leads them to sign-up to vote. Early registers, on the other hand, may be more committed to voting in general, but are less inspired to vote in any single particular election.
Of the late registrants, young adults were 15 percent less likely to vote than older adults, and women were more likely than men to turn out.
A surprising result from the study – again related to the asymmetrical effects of partisanship – is that late registering Republicans voted at about twice the rate of late registering Democrats.
Nudge blog 
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