Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration said starting Tuesday it is making it easier for someone to register to vote when they are getting or renewing a driver’s license in Pennsylvania.
Under the new format, prompts on the computer screens in driver’s license centers will take the user to a template to register to vote. That leaves it up to them to choose not to register. Previously, prompts on the computer screen first asked the user whether they wanted to register to vote.
Twenty-three other states and Washington, D.C., already have varying models of what is called “automatic voter registration,” according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
I’ll go further. I think the U.S. should be like Australia. Voting should be compulsory. You can return a blank ballot if you like, but you have to return a ballot.
I thinks its my countries greatest addition to democracy.
Considering the outcome of the last 20 years of Australian elections I’m inclined to think it doesn’t make any difference.