After touring crucial battleground states, Coinbase’s Stand With Crypto initiative could have registered as many as 121,000 people to vote in the 2024 United States elections.
In a statement shared with Cointelegraph, a Stand With Crypto spokesperson said roughly 17,500 users have clicked on the platform’s voter registration tool since Sept. 4, when the group launched a national tour to raise awareness of crypto policies. They added that more than 121,000 crypto advocates had used the tool since the platform launched in 2023.
Source: Stand With Crypto
The organization, claiming to advocate for “clear, common-sense regulations for the crypto industry,” allows users to enter their email addresses to check their polling locations and whether they’re registered to vote. It’s unclear how many of the users Stand With Crypto reported were already registered or went on to register in their respective US states.
Stand With Crypto organized a bus tour, holding rallies for crypto enthusiasts in Arizona, Nevada, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Washington, DC. Many recent polls suggested that Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump are neck and neck nationally and in crucial swing states, indicating tens of thousands of people could make the difference in carrying a state’s electoral votes in the 2024 presidential election.
Source: Joe Weisenthal
The bus tour, which concluded in DC on Sept. 18, was one of the latest efforts by industry advocates to encourage crypto-focused voter turnout. Crypto-backed political action committees (PACs) have contributed millions of dollars toward media buys to support pro-crypto congressional candidates and oppose anti-crypto ones in the 2024 election cycle.
Crypto as an election issue
It’s unclear how many of the roughly 240 million US citizens eligible to vote in 2024 will cast their ballots based solely on a candidate’s crypto policies. A 2023 Federal Reserve suggested that as many as 18 million US adults could hold or use cryptocurrencies.
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Though neither Vice President Harris nor Trump mentioned digital assets during their one and possibly only debate on Sept. 10, the candidates have taken different approaches to crypto in their respective campaigns.
The Republican candidate has called for “all the remaining Bitcoin” to be mined in the US and continues to address crypto voters on the campaign trail. Harris has been largely silent on digital assets as she runs in 2024, but in August, a senior campaign adviser said she would “support policies” for the industry’s growth.
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