Holder: U.S. should automatically register voters
Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday that U.S. election officials should register eligible voters automatically and take steps to reduce the long lines Americans encountered in national elections on November 6. …
“Modern technology provides ways to address many of the problems that impede the efficient administration of elections,” Holder said. …
“You can’t get groups of sufficient numbers of people that are willing to face that possibility and try to influence an election, which is why in-person voter fraud simply doesn’t exist to the extent that some on the right have said that it does,” Holder told a crowd of several hundred at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston.
Holder said the current system was needlessly complex and riddled with mistakes, resulting in 60 million adult U.S. citizens not being eligible to cast a ballot in the 2008 presidential election because they had not filed the right paperwork.
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Behavioral economics applied to elections. Why not have people vote for the Democrat by default. Saves them time off work to go to vote on election day. You can always opt out by going to the polls and casting your vote for whomever you want.
Ted Torgerson on December 12, 2012 at 8:57 AM
Worked for S. Hussein. Why wouldn’t it work for B. Hussein?
tom daschle concerned on December 12, 2012 at 8:59 AM
Tenth Amendment anyone???
michaelthomas on December 12, 2012 at 8:59 AM
What paperwork? It takes 5 minutes at any DMV office to register. Less than that online.
HotAirian on December 12, 2012 at 9:00 AM
Motor Voter needs to be repealed, much less advancing this idiocy.
tom daschle concerned on December 12, 2012 at 9:02 AM
Weird, I got a “Bad Request” when I tried to go to the article. I bet I’m doing it wrong again.
Cindy Munford on December 12, 2012 at 9:07 AM
Why subject citizens to waiting in lines, any lines, or having to take the time to get registered.
No, a better system would create a panel of people, preferably liberal, who would cast votes on our behalf thereby giving us more time to be with our families. They’ll sacrifice their time for us, that would make them heroes.
Bishop on December 12, 2012 at 9:08 AM
The ruling Communist Party of Australia is setting that very thing up right now.
OldEnglish on December 12, 2012 at 9:13 AM
Elections are sooooo last century – We have “evolved” well beyond our need for elections.
Pork-Chop on December 12, 2012 at 9:16 AM
Heck, we should have multistage registration for every election.
You want to vote for president? Let us know by April 30, July 31, and one more time a week before the election and THEN you can vote.
jr.ewing.78 on December 12, 2012 at 9:18 AM
Eyes on the next election. Like a locust swarm that has a single purpose. Forward. Consume. Destroy.
Their only purpose. Resistance is futile.
Mimzey on December 12, 2012 at 9:19 AM
Except those in the armed forces. And why not let people of other countries vote in our elections? What the USA does impacts them too. That’s not fair!
Banshee Leader on December 12, 2012 at 9:19 AM
How about in exchange for voter ID and no early voting?
beatcanvas on December 12, 2012 at 9:21 AM
Thats just crazy talk.
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Mimzey on December 12, 2012 at 9:25 AM
Well , motor voter does have a ring of pollution to it …..
Lucano on December 12, 2012 at 9:26 AM
Anyone that cannot figure out the registration process isn’t smart enough to vote. Voter registration has been made so easy to register that one doesn’t even need to speak English.
DAT60A3 on December 12, 2012 at 9:41 AM
*in the thickest Russian accent he could muster* What Tenth Amendment? Forward!
BigGator5 on December 12, 2012 at 9:47 AM
How about you pass a 20 question civics test first and then present a valid U.S. passport so you can vote in English only….?
NeoKong on December 12, 2012 at 10:03 AM
What?
Long list of steps? I got a drivers license and they sent me a voter card automatically, I think I just had to answer “yes I’d like to vote” when they asked me.
John_Locke on December 12, 2012 at 10:06 AM
Poll Tests!
Racist!!!!!111!1!!!11!eleventy
John_Locke on December 12, 2012 at 10:07 AM
Lowering the standards for the uninitiated and uninformed. Forward.
conservative pilgrim on December 12, 2012 at 10:20 AM
Why not just skip all the small talk and go straight to the microchip—Voter ID, economic class, race, everything would be easily identified by our “leaders.” Fast track their decisions. Brave New World meets Fahrenheit 451 in 1984. It’s the fascist way.
conservative pilgrim on December 12, 2012 at 10:24 AM
I’ll bet it takes a hell of a lot less time to register to vote than it does to file for welfare; how is it that filing paperwork constitutes an insurmountable hurdle for 60 million voters to get registered and yet we have some 50 million on welfare?
TexasDan on December 12, 2012 at 10:36 AM
60 MILLION?!? I find that very hard to believe. Unless he’s including people who just didn’t want to vote, I suppose.
KS Rex on December 12, 2012 at 10:43 AM
Ding. Ding! DING!
And that, boys n girls, in a nut shell, is the ultimate goal of these Bolsheviks.
locomotivebreath1901 on December 12, 2012 at 10:44 AM
Not funny, Ted! That’s EXACTLY what they would do.
Al in St. Lou on December 12, 2012 at 11:40 AM
Why, the paperwork required to vote when you’ve lost your rights as a felon, of course. That’s the only paperwork that might really keep someone from voting.
GWB on December 12, 2012 at 11:59 AM