If they can automatically register you for the draft

[orangecrush]

Why can't they automatically register you to vote!

[sop]

1. Great question...

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. The draft is run by the federal government; voting is run by state governments. Different "theys."

[Mblaze]

9. But the are trying to eliminate automatic registration by the states.

[Martin68]

10. Trump is trying to change that and federalize voting. Probably never happen.

[Katinfl]

3. There really is no reason for not being registered to vote.

Don’t all the state DMV’s ask if you want to register to vote when you get a license? I’ve done 3 interstate moves and each time I registered when I got my license. Could not be easier.

[Wounded Bear]

4. I don't think it is all states...nt

[orangecrush]

6. It should be

And should be automatic.

They could do it

They definitely don't want to.

[Katinfl]

19. That may be true but think how convenient it would be to register to vote.

Mostly everyone gets a drivers license and that’s the ideal time to register. It takes a minute.

[LeftInTX]

18. One poor girl (a likely student) who was registered to vote in our county, had to renew her DL

She was from another county. After she renewed her DL, she couldn't vote in our county because they also "updated" her voter registration to the other county, where her parents lived, but she was not residing.

In Texas, your TDL address does not need to match your voter registratrion address. (Many young people use their parents address either to vote or on their TDL etc) As long as you have a TDL and are registered in the county where you are voting, you are good to go... The TDL can be from anywhere in Texas.

But now that we have improved voter registration at the DMV, guess what?

She could have "opted out", but previously, it was an "opt in".

[Rebl2]

7. They could

if they wanted, but that’s never gonna happen.

[orangecrush]

12. It could happen

When we take back our government.

[Omnipresent]

8. Because they want to wield power, not lose it in an election.

[orangecrush]

11. Damn straight

[aggiesal]

13. Because (R)'s would lose elections. ...

Having a draft has the potential of killing off voters as well.

So to (R)'s, this is a win-win situation.

[orangecrush]

14. Funny how that works

[FakeNoose]

15. In Pennsylvania new drivers (at least 18) are automatically registered to vote ...

... when they come in to Dept. of Motor Vehicles for their PA Drivers License. So far it has been well-received, but it doesn't guarantee that the youngsters will actually vote. At least they can if they want to.

[AllaN01Bear]

16. hell no. i wont go. im too old.

[relogic]

17. The franchise and participation

is reserved for enthusiastic R voters. Any advantage given to their opposition is preemptively countered. They surely can’t have meaningful waves of democratic-enthused people at polls.

Speaking of polls. Have you considered the preponderance of multi-front attacks on successful application of mail-in voting? It, of course widely popular for legal balloting. Why would any patriot of free elections want enthused voters juggling the onerous mechanisms of in-person voting?

Do these saboteurs of democracy want deliberate voters sitting in their living rooms safely pondering the weight of their ballot. No. They want Americans turned away at polling lines, intimidated and thwarted in their American franchise with the lie of voter fraud and other rationalizations.

If voting by mail works as well as it does without question-why are the R traitors intent on destroying it. We know why.