Gov. Murphy signs bill requiring automatic voter registration
Gov. Phil Murphy signed legislation Tuesday that will automatically register people to vote if they apply for a driver's license or non-driver ID card in the Garden State.
Since then, 12 other states and the District of Columbia have passed or implemented similar laws, with Washington state and Maryland enacting automatic registration this year.
"The vast majority of New Jersey residents are already registered to vote, so this legislation is a completely unnecessary expense", Senate Minority Leader Tom Kean Jr. said during a recent news conference on the measure.
Murphy says registering to vote should be simple and seamless.
After years of Republican attempts to restrict voting rights, Democratic-controlled states are taking more aggressive steps to expand access to the ballot.
It's faced resistance from Republicans in the state who said the bill has "questionable motives", state GOP chairman Doug Steinhardt said in a statement.
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"We come at this from the point of view that there should be no barriers to register to vote", Murphy said Tuesday. "If you only register voters at the MVA [Motor Vehicle Administration], you're missing a lot of people". It would be optional for other agencies. New Jersey and Rhode Island, meanwhile, have allowed for its expansion to other agencies but left the decision up to election officials to decide if it's feasible.
A spokesman for the secretary of state, who oversees elections in New Jersey, confirmed voters in this election won't include any who've been enrolled automatically.
Automatic voter registration is expected to expand voter rolls. The new legislation could register almost 600,000 new voters, according to a study by the Center for American Progress.
According to a study of Oregon's experience published by the liberal Center for American Progress, voters who registered through AVR tended to be younger, more suburban than urban, likelier to live in low- and middle-income areas, more likely to live in lower-education areas and more likely to live in racially diverse areas. Unaffiliated voters are the biggest bloc in the state, with about 2.4 million. After he won the election in 2016, Trump set up a Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity that sought voter information from state databases. "The ability to exercise your basic right to vote has become a right that's more important now than arguably any other time in our nation's history", Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat who was elected previous year, told Mother Jones.
The state Motor Vehicle Commission would be the only agency required to implement automatic registration.
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