YES! Every citizen over 18 should be automatically registered.
75%
YES! Auto registration would make it harder to disenfranchise voters.
25%
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This really doesn't take it far enough. Voting should be looked upon as every citizens duty.
just like paying taxes. It's what democracy is all about. If you don't vote you get a fine of maybe $250. Then lets see what happends to the GOP. They will never hold another office for we the corporations every again. I'm a 67 year old Vietnam Veteran and this country has become a big joke ever since Ronald Raygun was my California Govenor. Voting make it mandatory and we the people will get our country back.
bring back Government classes in schools, and teach, Civic Duty, to your country.
It doesn't go far enough, all ideas. We should adopt, the Australia method...Mandatory Voting. Or tax break if you do Vote, or a NonVote a Tax if you don't.
Our Voting rates and the attacks against voting, is ridiculous, disturbing.
There really ought to be a "No" response just for the heck of it, but I would support almost any measure that got people registered. I would also like to see the US adopt online voting the way other countries have. Surely the US is capable of doing that, especially if other countries have successfully been using online voting. And while I'm at it, I would like to see an end to gerrymandering, while redistricting taken out of the hands of politicans and redstricting being handled by non-partisan enities such as a university. I would also like to see term limits in the absense of real campaign finance reform and the Citizens United misruling.
We need more than just the basics in education, reading writing and arithmetic is not enough, we need government classes and social economics classes not as electives, but mandatory to graduate.
The ignorance in this country is destroying us.