New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is introducing legislation to expand online voter registration, which would allow all eligible voters across the country to register online.
The legislation would open online registration to nearly 100 million potential registrants who currently are without it, according to an announcement from her office.
The bill, The Voter Registration Modernization Act - S. 2865, would create a national online voter registration system, requiring all states to allow eligible voters to register online and update their information electronically, according to Gillibrand's office.
I am against this idea at this time, as well as, the current absentee ballot process. There is a reason we register to vote at the DMV. They take your picture and verify your citizenship.
But after this initial process, there is a way to to use an online process to update your registration and ask for an absentee ballot.
Stockholder elections is an online event. It uses a double password process to verify who you are. You are mailed the ballot with a random generated pass-codes, that you enter online for verification and then make your selections.
In New York, before an election, we are mailed a form that indicates where to vote and includes our Election District, Assembly District, Congressional District, State Senate District, City District, and Civil Court District. It also includes a bar-code number, which could be used in a future electronic poll book including your image, to find your poll book record. And then print your ballot on-demand.
Now we have the beginning of an online system. You could use the bar-code number that was generated for you and the pass-codes mailed to you, to perform online requests like, updating your registration, asking for an absentee ballot, and in the future voting.
NYC Wins When Everyone Can Vote! Michael H. Drucker
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