America Doesn’t Need Automatic Voter Registration. Just Look to California.
6th March 2019
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have held up California’s new, error-plagued automatic voter registration program as a model for the nation, and are now pushing for a nationalized version of the program in a bill called the “For the People Act.”
The bill would require all states to implement automatic voter registration systems, which advocates claim would improve the accuracy of voter registration rolls, prevent ineligible people from registering, help election officials do less work to keep voter registration records accurate, and make it easier for eligible voters to register or update their registration records.
Yet since California started its own automatic voter registration program last April, exactly the opposite has happened.