Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration stated beginning Tuesday it’s making it simpler for somebody to register to vote when they’re getting or renewing a driver’s license in Pennsylvania.

Under the brand new format, prompts on the pc screens in driver’s license facilities will take the person to a template to register to vote. That leaves it as much as them to decide on to not register. Previously, prompts on the pc display screen first requested the person whether or not they needed to register to vote.

Twenty-three different states and Washington, D.C., have already got various fashions of what’s known as “automatic voter registration,” in line with the National Conference of State Legislatures.

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The Shapiro administration stated it doesn’t want laws or regulation to make the change at driver’s license facilities.

There are at present 8.6 million registered voters in Pennsylvania, in line with data from the state Department of State. More than 10 million Pennsylvanians out of 13 million complete are at the least 18 years previous, the minimal authorized age to vote, in line with U.S. Census figures.

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States have been required to supply voter registration at driver’s license facilities since Congress handed the National Voter Registration Act in 1993.

Researchers from the Public Policy Institute of California, the University of Southern California and the University of California-Berkeley concluded in a 2021 examine that automated voter registration elevated registration by a number of proportion factors in states the place it was in impact, and boosted the variety of folks truly voting by greater than 1%.