Oregon legislature passes automatic voter registration

[Gass3268]

The thing is that people who don't vote probably shouldn't vote

In a democracy, you don't get to decide who should or should not vote.

That's not what im saying, what im saying is that people who can but choose not to register to vote are almost always the most uninformed in society and we should not feel the need to encourage them to alter our government if they already have made it clear that they don't care

This proposal just makes voting there and ready to those who didn't register before. Most of the people who don't care still won't vote. Its not like its mandatory voting.

The benefit of well-realised automatic voter registration is that it allows all people to vote in the election, unlike the personal voter registration system:

* Under AVR, people who decide to vote only in the final days because of a late game-changing event will be allowed to vote as well.

* Under PVR, there's a cutoff date (often a month or so ahead of the election) and late-deciders are not allowed to vote. Unless there's election day registration ...

As you can see, AVR is vastly superior and that's why it is used in all major developed countries.

Plus Oregon has exclusive voting by mail. Mix that with AVR and every single eligible adult in the system will get a ballot sent to them, meaning there could be thousands of more ballots sent in.