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Under new Oregon law, all eligible voters are registered unless they opt out

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808s & Villainy

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http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-oregon-automatic-voter-registration-20150317-story.html
Americans are required to register if they want to vote; as of this week, Oregonians will have to register not to.

In front of a packed and cheering audience Monday, Gov. Kate Brown signed a first-in-the-nation bill to automatically register all eligible Oregonians to vote when they obtain or renew a driver's license or state identification card.

Those who are registered through the new process will be notified by mail and will be given three weeks to take themselves off the voting rolls. If they do not opt out, the secretary of state's office will mail them a ballot automatically 20 days before any election.
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This is INCREDIBLE. Every state should adopt this system
 
_ifigured

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I can see this soiling a lot of republican diapers. Which means its common sense that should be applied nationally.
 
Sacrilicious

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Genuine question from a non-American: are there any potential downsides to this at all?

Because doing this to streamline a (sometimes deliberately) burdensome process sounds like a no-brainer.
 
LucidMomentum

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Fucking Perfect.

That's how I want it done.

Gimme Two weeks+ to research my ballots and mail it in.

WHY IS IT SO HARD AMERICA*

*GOP
 
Galkinator

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That's good, should definitely be a default. Boggles my mind that you have to do anything other than show up to your ballot in order to vote
 
NoblesseOblige

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Laws like this, and those passed in Michigan last week, are going to be what paves the way to fairer voting, and better elected officials. Not putting all our chips on the horse at the top, which so many seem to invest too much into.
 
Nepenthe

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Every other Democratic governor needs to get on this ASAP. Taking the power of voter purging out of sniveling hands of the GOP is crucial.
 
Gaf Zombie

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I'm glad to see this and I hope it spreads. It will have to gain traction in racially homogeneous states first but there could eventually be a nationwide tipping point if there is any good left in our government.
 
Blader

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Hasn't Oregon had automatic voter registration for a while now?

edit: just noticed the article is dated March 2015! :lol

Michigan just made this law too, though, which is good news.
 
Casualcore

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I find this interesting because from my perspective, this doesn't look new. I moved to Oregon in 2016, and was registered when I got my driver's license. It wasn't completely automatic, in that I got a bit of mail a couple weeks later asking me to choose my party for the primaries and mail that back in.

EDIT: Just saw the post from Blader, lol
 
Slayven

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Oregon has come a long way from it's humble beginnings.
 

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Every state needs to do this. Voting should be as easy as possible given how rare voter fraud is. The problem is most people don't care, not that there are masses of people who want to vote multiple times.
 
GameAddict411

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Sacrilicious said:
Genuine question from a non-American: are there any potential downsides to this at all?

Because doing this to streamline a (sometimes deliberately) burdensome process sounds like a no-brainer.
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It affects the republican negatively because they benefit from supressing the poor and minorities during elections. When their policy is basically to gut every social program, and to make the rich richer no one with a brain will vote Republican. Only white poor people who are brain washed will vote gop.
 
Killthee

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Automatic Voter Registration and other protections for our elections are the first thing on the House agenda next year.

Democrats Say Their First Bill Will Focus On Strengthening Democracy At Home

Democrats will take control of the U.S. House in January with big items topping their legislative to-do list: Remove obstacles to voting, close loopholes in government ethics law and reduce the influence of political money.

Party leaders say the first legislative vote in the House will come on H.R. 1, a magnum opus of provisions that Democrats believe will strengthen U.S. democratic institutions and traditions.

"It's three very basic things that I think the public wants to see," said Rep. John Sarbanes (D-Md.), who spearheads campaign finance and government ethics efforts for the House Democratic Caucus. He said H.R. 1 will "demonstrate that we hear that message loud and clear."

But even Sarbanes admits the quick vote is just a first step. Republicans, who control the Senate, are unlikely to pass the bill and President Trump is unlikely to sign it. "Give us the gavel in the Senate in 2020 and we'll pass it in the Senate," Sarbanes said. "Give us a pen in the Oval Office and we'll sign those kinds of reforms into law."

The bill would establish automatic voter registration and reinvigorate the Voting Rights Act, crippled by a Supreme Court decision in 2013. It would take away redistricting power from state legislatures and give it to independent commissions.
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https://www.npr.org/2018/11/12/6656...will-focus-on-strengthening-democracy-at-home
 
TheMan

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As it should be

thats also how organ donation should work but I digress...
 
Caja 117

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This was made trough Refferendum and gurantee that of a R politician is elected he can revert the law easy?
 
The Albatross

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Way to catch up Oregon.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-...ns-automatic-voter-registration-bill-into-law

:D

But honestly, every state should adopt this, though obviously most won't. Now some 14 states have automatic voter registration similar to Massachusetts, and now Oregon's law, or at least, 14 states have it passed and planned to take effect in the coming years. But, knowing Massachusetts even though the law was signed last year Oregon will probably get their's to take effect much earlier.

Killthee said:
Automatic Voter Registration and other protections for our elections are the first thing on the House agenda next year.


https://www.npr.org/2018/11/12/6656...will-focus-on-strengthening-democracy-at-home
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Very interested in automatic voter registration at the federal level, but I just don't think it'd get upheld by the Supreme Court if challenged (which it would be).
 
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