Maryland's top Democrats are looking at legislation that would automatically put every eligible state resident on the voting rolls, abandoning the traditional registration system.
Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller and House Speaker Michael E. Busch say they are seriously considering putting their weight behind a "universal voter registration" plan. If a change were approved, Maryland would join a small number of state legislatures, all led by Democrats, that passed laws to register people who did not take the initiative to register.
The policy would add hundreds of thousands of voters to rolls here — and faces deep objections from the Maryland Republican Party.
"This is all about the Democrats finding new voters. This is a joke," said Joe Cluster, executive director of the state GOP. "God forbid they actually go out there and register people to vote."
In Oregon, the first state to pass such a law, any eligible voter with a driver's license will be registered and sent a ballot by mail at election time. In California, eligible voters renewing a driver's license will be asked whether they want to opt out of registering to vote. If not, they'll be put on the rolls.
The proposal in Maryland could go further, culling information from several government databases to create a list of people who are eligible to vote and signing them up if they're not already registered. Those new voters would be notified that they could opt out if they wish.
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11 comments:
More laziness from the public sector entitlement workers.
As long as they couple it with citizenry verification prior to issuance and voter identification at the polling place!
Otherwise, it's standard dumbocrat voter fraud tactics!
What a crock of BS.
Laziness? This is more likely to have an opportunity for having someone else cast ballets on behalf of these newly registered voters who have no intention of ever casting a ballot. It's called organized crime.
I totally agree with 8:07AM. How outrageous is it to have ILLEGAL ALIENS AKA CRIMINALS voting for OUR president!!!
So in order to get "automatically" registered they are going to raid the DMV data base but, making them have an ID to vote is a violation of their someones rights?
Unbelievable.
8:44 - our POSPOTUS IS one of them too!
I don't have a problem with this. When I registered to vote (back in the stone ages) I didn't have to show any documentation proving I was a citizen. My word was enough. Nowadays when you apply for a license you have to show a birth certificate or other documentation to prove your identity, and indirectly your citizenship. It makes it simpler for people exercise their right to vote, which should be regarded as a positive regardless of how they may vote.
10:21 am
You have no clue what u r talking about. Haveyou been under a rock?
NO, NO, NO. This is the only way the libs can get their lazy, good for nothing people to vote for them. This must not go through...
Just pre-mark all of their ballots to vote for the Democrats' ticket and be done with it. After all, that's the goal.
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