VALDOSTA — The 2016 election year was one of “all sorts of oddities,” said Deb Cox, the Lowndes County supervisor of elections. 

And that strange pattern of events hasn’t let up yet it seems. For the past several weeks, the Board of Elections has been inundated with large numbers of new voter registrations, a trend that’s normally never seen at this time of year, Cox said.

“Generally, the way it has always been the last 20 years, is after a presidential (election), the voter registration drops off to virtually nothing. You hit three, four, maybe five a day,” Cox said.

“Right now, we’re seeing 100-150 a day, and we’re struggling to keep up.”

Cox said the elections office has received between 2,000 and 3,000 new voter registrations since the election.

The office has had to assign people full-time to a task that is normally a minor side job during this time.

Georgia is seeing a spike in voters not just in Lowndes County but all across the state. Last week, the Secretary of State’s office said there were 240,000 pending voter registrations, with even more that hadn’t yet been added to the total.

Cox doesn’t have an explanation for the spike, but said she saw unusual things all throughout 2016 that were unique and interesting to watch.

Perhaps the biggest oddity of the presidential election was the President-elect himself, Donald Trump.

Trump — a candidate with no government experience that very few took seriously at first — kept rising and rising until he claimed the country’s highest political office.

Cox said political analysts are attributing all the the strange occurrences of the presidential election to this idea called “The Trump Effect.”

“That’s what everyone’s attributing all the changes to, ‘The Trump Effect,’” Cox said. “I don’t know how he affects all that, but something’s different this year. (Voter registration) is one of the things that is different.”