Pending voter registrations in Chester County doubled overnight ahead of the last day to sign up in Pennsylvania, a sign of the intensifying political battle in a state that could determine the outcome of the election.

A record pace of thousands of local voter registrations and more than 300,000 statewide have flooded the rolls in recent weeks, according to a Philadelphia Inquirer report by Angela Couloumbis.

“It’s been crazy,” State Department spokeswoman Wanda Murren said.

Through it all, Republicans have added 122,979 voters statewide, though Democrats still hold a nearly one-million-person advantage and have “made inroads in Republican-leaning Chester County.”

Read more about the influx of voter registrations and the trends around the suburbs in the Philadelphia Inquirer here, and check out previous VISTA Today coverage on the election here.