Automatic and online voter registration have proven to increase voter rolls and save money, yet many states are still using paper.
The United States takes great pride in being one of the largest and longest running modern democracies in the world. Yet when it comes to having a good voter registration system, we have a long way to go.
Today’s voter registration systems vary widely in terms of quality and effectiveness from state to state, according to a recent study by the Brennan Center for Justice. A dozen states still use paper forms to register voters, making their systems costly to run and prone to errors. The states that do use technology differ in how they use computers to register voters, often making the system less effective than it could be.
Until Congress passed the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, citizens had to seek out the necessary forms to register. The “Motor Voter” law, as it came to be called, made the process easier by putting the forms at the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and requiring agency personnel to ask drivers if they wanted to register. But many countries -- including Australia, Chile, France, Germany and Sweden -- make it easier than that to sign up with automatic voter registration.
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1 comment:
Anyone registering to vote should have to prove they are a citizen. In Maryland an illegal alien can get a drivers license and in some places they can actually vote,Takoma Park Md in one of them. Illegals should have absolutely no rights at all especially not the right to vote. The democrats want to register as many people as they can regardless if they are a citizen or not. Hillery loves em.
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