Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed legislation to automatically register 300,000 to vote—300,000 people who were too apathetic to make the effort to register themselves.
Rediscovering that democracy means promoting voting. The lesson to learn from Oregon new governor. http://t.co/nFNL77D4LX
— LePenseurPerclu (@waleeh004) March 17, 2015
Isn’t “promoting voting” the job of campaigns and candidates?
From Yahoo! News:
Gov. Kate Brown signed a bill that puts the burden of registration on the state instead of voters.
Under the legislation, every adult citizen in Oregon who has interacted with the Driver and Motor Vehicle Services Division since 2013 but hasn’t registered to vote will receive a ballot in the mail at least 20 days before the next statewide election. The measure is expected to add about 300,000 new voters to the rolls.
“It just changes expectations for who’s responsible for making elections work,” said Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and director of the Elections Research Center. “In every other state it’s the responsibility for the voters to make sure it happens.”
So basically Oregon wants a government for the people but not of or by the people. The more apathetic and uninformed voters dropping ballots in the mail with minimal personal effort the better for big government Democrats.
Oregon becomes the 1st state to automatically register ppl to vote — and it will send them all a ballot in the mail: http://t.co/wFLzgJTtfH
— Taniel (@Taniel) March 16, 2015
@taniel @demfromct And of course… pic.twitter.com/8fjnQjFlUJ
— Charles #GetCovered-ba (@charles_gaba) March 16, 2015
Oregon Gov Kate Brown signs automatic voter registration law that does something amazing: it makes democracy… easy. pic.twitter.com/Of6WnepMQX
— John Nichols (@NicholsUprising) March 16, 2015
Oregon becomes first state to automatically register people to vote: http://t.co/SxZZm2eAbs
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 17, 2015
As the GOP in many states makes it harder to vote, Oregon Gov signs sweeping automatic voter registration law http://t.co/9aAYBj4uPY #1u
— AFSCME (@AFSCME) March 16, 2015
Oregon will now automatically register people to vote, adding 300K new voters to the rolls. http://t.co/oKcWbi8KO3
— James Freedland (@jmzzz) March 16, 2015
https://twitter.com/EqegmzG/status/577611603002064897
Yeah, Texas really “longs” for that sort of governor. That’s why Wendy Davis lost by double digits.
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