Posted on 07/14/2018 8:13:28 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
BOSTON -- The Massachusetts Senate passed automatic voter registration on Thursday, moving the bill one step closer to Gov. Charlie Baker's desk.
The bill already passed the House, but differences between the bills will still have to be reconciled before a final version reaches the governor. It passed the Senate unanimously, 38-0.
"It should be the state's burden to register voters - not yours," said Senate President Harriette Chandler, D-Worcester, in a statement. Chandler said long work hours and confusion about the voter registration process are barriers for many citizens.
Under the bill, H.4671, any adult Massachusetts citizen who completes a transaction at the Registry of Motor Vehicles or signs up for MassHealth would be automatically registered to vote. People could still choose to opt out.
The goal is to get more eligible voters onto the rolls. Supporters of the bill estimate that up to 680,000 eligible voters could eventually become registered to vote.
The bill would be implemented in time for the 2020 elections.
Baker has not yet taken a position on the bill. Lawmakers must get the bill to his desk by July 21 if they want to avoid being in a position where they are no longer in session to override a potential veto.
If the bill becomes law, Massachusetts would become the 14th state to have some form of automatic voter registration.
"Automatic voter registration will make voting more accurate, more secure, and more available to all. That's good for democracy, for election security, and for voters," said Pam Wilmot, executive director of Common Cause Massachusetts, in a statement.
Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin said he is "ready to begin preparing for implementation of this crucial voting reform as soon as this bill is signed into law."
Victims of domestic violence who are enrolled in an existing address confidentiality program will be able to register to vote without their address becoming public.
The legislation also increases the penalty for voter fraud, making it punishable by a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for up to five years.
Yes. In fact automated voter fraud. And the RINO governor will probably sign off on it.
Yes - recall many of these same states are give drivers licenses to illegal immigrants.
Note the irony that Massachusetts does NOT support voter ID at the polling places either.
> completes a transaction at the Registry of Motor Vehicles or signs up for MassHealth
Looks like they didn’t get the amendment passed that registers everyone who gets checked into a morgue. /sarc
I wouldn’t be surprised if they start signing up every dead person for MassHealth to boost the numbers without the cost of providing healthcare (and also to get them registered to vote)
Hmmm? Full auto or semi-auto.
Not likely. The more probable effect will be that the percentage of registered but not voting people will increase.
Only a fraction of those who actively take the trouble to register actually vote.
Voting is hard. Let the demonrats do it for you
Why would that matter anyway if illegals could obtain the ID you'd be showing?
I would be furious if I lived in Massachusetts. That's a REAL disenfranchisement of LEGAL CITIZENS voter rights.
BY “automatic” are they “automatically” assigned a party as well?
It all is heading to the communist systems were it is illegal not to vote.
While the founders always thought citizens should vote, they also so it necessary for good government decision making that citizens need to take the effort and responsibility to register to vote. Handing registration to citizens automatically caters to the indolent and pretends they are as concientious as the vigilant. In truth, the Democrats do not give a dam, they want drones, not individuals.
Goes with "automatic voting."
Doing Soros’ work for him.
And 3 million ineligible voters....
Only a fraction of those who actively take the trouble to register actually vote.
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All the better for the Rats, who just get someone to show up to vote in the illegal’s name.
In quality control, inherent source of variation that is (1) random, (2) always present, and (3) affects every outcome of the process. Common cause is traced usually to an element of the system that can be corrected only by the management. Also called assignable cause.
But thankfully we're losing Congressional seats at a breakneck speed so in Congress,and the Electoral College,we're less and less dangerous to the Republic as time passes.
I didn’t see any mention of how they check for citizenship.
It would seem that if the state permits voters not legal citizens, then the presidential electors can be declared invalid and the whole Massachuttes presidential election is disallowed.
All it takes is a conservative judge to make the ruling
Women and Children, have as good Judgment, and as independent Minds as those Men who are wholly destitute of Property:
These last being to all Intents and Purposes as much dependent upon others, who will please to feed, cloath, and employ them, as Women are upon their Husbands, or Children on their Parents.
Depend upon it, sir, it is dangerous to open So fruitfull a Source of Controversy and Altercation, as would be opened by attempting to alter the Qualifications of Voters.
There will be no End of it.
New Claims will arise.
Women will demand a Vote.
Lads from 12 to 21 will think their Rights not enough attended to, and every Man, who has not a Farthing, will demand an equal Voice with any other in all Acts of State.
It tends to confound and destroy all Distinctions, and prostrate all Ranks, to one common Level.
-John Adams
Making voter registration easier, simpler, faster, electronic, etc... are simply invitations to fraud, as well as degrading the sense of responsibility of the voter and the importance of participatory democracy.
Rather, they should clear the rolls every 8 years, at which point you must re-register. Registrations should closed 2 weeks before an election for verification. Polls can be open a full 24 hours, but you must appear in person to vote, of course with only a few approved forms of ID. Allow only a very few exceptions for mail-ins, such as for active-duty overseas military
And I believe that this also puts them on the rolls for jury duty.
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