A top women's civic advocacy group says it has seen increased engagement among female voters ahead of the November midterm elections compared to the same point in the 2016 presidential race.

League of Women Voters CEO Virginia Kase joined Hill.TV's “Rising” on Tuesday to mark National Registration Day and discuss the nonpartisan organization’s efforts to help women take a larger role in public affairs and the voting process.

“We have a website called vote411.org at the Women’s League of Voters and in 2016, at this time of year, we had seen about a million people come to visit our website, either to register to vote, check their voter registration or to learn about candidates,” Kase told Hill.TV co-hosts Krystal Ball and Buck Sexton.

“In this year in particular, we’re at about 1.5 million, so we’re on track to 2 million voters,” she added.

The CEO noted that female voter turnout is traditionally in the low 50 percent range, but said she expects turnout among women to exceed that this year.

Women historically are far more likely to turn out to vote than men.

The female voter turnout rate has topped that for men in every presidential election since 1980, while women have outnumbered men in every midterm election since 1986, according to a 2017 study by the Rutgers Center for American Women and Politics.

A record number of women are also running for public office this year, with more women than ever before winning major party primaries for governor, U.S. Senate and House across the country.

These numbers have tended to favor Democratic female candidates, while Republican women have had more of a challenge in their primary races this year.

GOP strategist and CEO Sarah Chamberlain said in an interview that aired on Friday that she was afraid that the number of Republican women in the House would decline in November's midterms and fall to World War II levels.

Kase argued Tuesday that Democratic women may benefit by being “more aligned” with some of the issues that women are facing in the #MeToo era.

“Republicans need to do a better job of getting the message out about supporting women, about women’s issues and causes and it just hasn’t happened unfortunately,” she said.

— Tess Bonn