NY Online Voter Registration

New York unveiled an online voter registration system that allows residents to become voters from their own computers, and eventually from new electronic devices at Department of Motor Vehicles offices.

New voters can even cast ballots in next month’s primaries if they register and enroll in a party online by Sunday, said Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi. Today is the in-person registration deadline at DMV and Board of Elections offices.

Applicants need a driver’s license or a non-driver’s identification card number to register through the Web site, where they can also change their address and party enrollment.

The DMV will then transfer their information from their systems, including their signature, to the Board of Elections. The board will still have to do their due process to verify the information before they become registered voters. With the transferred signature the voter does not have to be in-person to register and the board will be able to print the poll books with the required signatures.

The board is looking into creating an electronic poll book. This will allow the poll worker to bring up the voter's signature and photo from the DMV database, plus the relevant data to verify the voter is in the right place and gets the correct ballot.

UPDATE
Some call this progress!

To start, when someone fills out a registration form, the DMV will print out the document and snail-mail the paper to the proper board, where clerks will type in the data by hand. This counts as progress because you can register from home.









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