An academic told Newsweek automatic voter registration is 'an important way to help Americans over a hurdle that many countries never erect for their citizens.'
. They have since been followed by Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Nevada, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia and the District of Columbia.
All of these bar Alaska will automatically enrol eligible voters when they interact with the Department of Motor Vehicles, unless they choose to opt out, with other agencies also participating in some states. In Alaska registration will take place through the state's Permanent Fund Dividend, which makes payments to permanent residents of the state each year.
Stock photo showing voters casting their ballots for Early Voting at the Los Angeles County Registrar's Office in Norwalk, California on November 5, 2018, a day ahead the November 6 midterm elections in the United States. Earlier this month Pennsylvanian became the 24th state to announce it is introducing automatic voter registration.
He commented:"The research suggests that the political effects are pretty negligible, despite what some advocates claims and opponents worry about. First, people who get registered through this channel but would not register in other ways are usually what we call 'low propensity voters.' This will end up adding many more registrants to the rolls than it will add future voters.
"Furthermore, the causal effect of AVR will depend on the characteristics of people who have driver's licenses but are not registered. The lessons from other states is that this is a pretty mixed group, but it is surprisingly Republican and conservative in many cases.
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