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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro announces automatic voter registration (www.cbsnews.com)

submitted 1 year ago by DevCat@lemmy.world to c/usa@lemmy.ml

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Pennsylvania 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 the state.

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.

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[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I understand that. Buts it’s a weird American aberration born out of your worrying frontier fetishism. Having a functioning central public administration would solve *a lot * of your problems.

Y’all need records, yo.

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or just be less paranoid. You have to register to vote in Canada, but you can do it automatically when filing your taxes, or at the polls with your government ID, OR at the polls with a piece of mail and an already registered voter to vouch for you. They just write your name and address down to forward to the federal or provincial elections agency, nave your voucher sign a form, and then give you a ballot.

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah but this Canadian method absolutely reeks of wanting people to vote.

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But muh state's rights!

A centralized one that makes it easy to update would be awesome, but would require a constitutional amendment since it is currently up to each individual state.