Pennsylvania governor launches automatic voter registration

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https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wire...-ire-103636207

In Pennsylvania, people will notice the change when they head to a driver’s license center to obtain or renew a license. On computers there, a prompt will tell them they will be registered to vote “unless you decline to register.”

Previously, the prompts asked users if they wanted to register and to affirmatively check a box saying “yes.”

The article also mentions the following:

The Shapiro administration said it already has protections in place to prevent non-U.S. citizens or those under age 18 from being offered registration.

Some of those protections date to 2017, when the state said it fixed a two-decade-old glitch that might have enabled several thousand non-U.S. citizens to inadvertently register to vote. Officials estimate that people in that group cast about 540 ballots over 35 elections in 17 years.

Oh, okay, so they "fixed the glitch" after two decades, and there are "protections in place". How reassuring.
If you renew by mail there is a box that you must check if you don't want your voter registration information "updated".

I don't approve of using state Motor Vehicle agencies as a facilitator/gatekeeper for voter registration, or for updating anything.
Don't trust that at all.
Driving is a privilege, not a right. Voting is a right. The potential for abuse is there. PA Republicans were not happy that this wasn't presented before the PA House/Senate. Shapiro bypassed that completely.

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Already being discussed here: https://forum.pafoa.org/showthread.p...ighlight=voter