Current Events > Pennsylvania moving to automatic voter registration

(+) Yeah! (+)

This is the way.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna105584

Eligible voters getting a new drivers license or ID card in Pennsylvania will now be automatically registered to vote, Commonwealth officials said.

Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, announced the change Tuesday, touting it as good for democracy.

Automatic voter registration is a commonsense step to ensure election security and save Pennsylvanians time and tax dollars, Shapiro said in a statement. Residents of our Commonwealth already provide proof of identity, residency, age, and citizenship at the DMV all the information required to register to vote so it makes good sense to streamline that process with voter registration, he added.

Pennsylvania becomes the 24th state to implement automatic voter registration, according to a tally from the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Automatic voter registration simplifies the voter registration processes and requires voters to opt out if they want to stay off the rolls. Previously, voters in Pennsylvania were offered the option to register while getting a driver's license, a process that involved 19 screens of questions. Now, they will be automatically taken through 11 questions during the ID process, according to Manuel Bonder, a spokesman for the governor.

The measure also helps election officials keep their voter rolls tidy, by allowing voters to update their registrations during the same process.

Americans have been able to register to vote at a state motor vehicle agency since a federal law required it in 1993; since then, nearly half of all states and the District of Columbia have made the process automatic.

As a candidate, Shapiro campaigned as a democracy defender, and his democracy policy plan included implementing automatic voter registration.

Everyone should just get a ballot in the mail a month before the election, that just needs to be postmarked or delivered to a polling place by election day.

Good shit

You already get asked to register to vote anytime you do anything involving your license in PA (renewal, replacement, etc), I guess they are now making it automatic now. Nifty.

I can't wait for someone to say why this is actually a bad thing. They obviously won't say it's bad because making voting more convenient means more people can vote which means less Republican victories.

Excellent! Proud of my state for this.

Good shit. Bonus points because it's going to make republicans absolutely pissed.

Where are the posters who always tells us not to vote because dems don't do anything about voter suppression?

Shadow_Don posted...

Where are the posters who always tells us not to vote because dems don't do anything about voter suppression?

Too busy getting ready to vote for Trump or the Russian plant in the Green Party.

Southernfatman posted...

I can't wait for someone to say why this is actually a bad thing. They obviously won't say it's bad because making voting more convenient means more people can vote which means less Republican victories.

"It'll make election fraud out of control!"
"How?"
"Cuz Trump said so"

Were_Wyrm posted...

Everyone should just get a ballot in the mail a month before the election, that just needs to be postmarked or delivered to a polling place by election day.

QFT

Shadow_Don posted...

Where are the posters who always tells us not to vote because dems don't do anything about voter suppression?

Telling us that it's the same because democrats don't do ENOUGH. What counts as enough for them?

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Southernfatman posted...

I can't wait for someone to say why this is actually a bad thing.

okay.
"Fuck, I got jury duty?"

Most jurisdictions pull the jury pool from voter registration, and the intentionally apolitical tend to also hate jury duty even more than average.

This is why you vote Democrat

It starts locally. The feds and DNC can't join a fight that doesn't exist.