Oregon automatically registers people to vote

Oregon became the first state to automatically register Americans to vote on Monday.

A new bill signed into law by Democratic Gov. Kate Brown “puts the burden of registration on the state instead of voters,” according to the Associated Press.

The law makes it so that anyone over 18 who is not registered to vote in Oregon but who has dealt with the state’s Driver and Motor Vehicle Services Division since 2013 will be mailed a ballot 20 days before the next statewide election. Oregon predicts that this new system will bring 300,000 more eligible voters to the polls.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/Politics-Voices/2015/0317/Oregon-s-new-take-on-voting-If-you-re-eligible-you-re-registered?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Politics-Decoder&utm_campaign=05_Newsletter%3APolitics_Sailthru&cmpid=ema%3Anws%3APolitics%2520Weekly%2520%2803-18-2015%29

You can't mandate participation in any type of Democratic government. Yes, we have a democratic republic (according to Ben Franklin) I understand. Government screws up all the time (look at Obamacare). Do we really want GOVERNMENT telling us who is on the voting roll or not regardless if they want to participate or not? I think NOT.

I think NOT.

I cannot disagree that you do not think sometimes. Nobody is making anybody vote, simply removing as many obstacles as possible so if a person decides to vote there will not be arbitrary barriers stopping that person from voting.

2seaoat wrote: I think NOT.

I cannot disagree that you do not think sometimes.  Nobody is making anybody vote, simply removing as many obstacles as possible so if a person decides to vote there will not be arbitrary barriers stopping that person from voting.

Sorry, but if you don't have the intestinal fortitude to go register, you aren't worth the wet spot on the bed beneath your mothers booty.

That's a LEGAL voter