Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration said starting Tuesday it is making it easier for someone to register to vote when they are getting or renewing a driver’s license in the state.
Under the new format, prompts on the computer screens in driver’s license centers will take the user to a template to register to vote. That leaves it up to them to choose not to register. Previously, prompts on the computer screen first asked the user whether they wanted to register to vote.
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Josh Shapiro’s administration said starting Tuesday it is making it easier for someone to register to vote when they are getting or renewing a driver’s license in the state.
Under the new format, prompts on the computer screens in driver’s license centers will take the user to a template to register to vote.
The Shapiro administration said it does not need legislation or regulation to make the change at driver’s license centers.
Researchers from the Public Policy Institute of California, the University of Southern California and the University of California-Berkeley concluded in a 2021 study that automatic voter registration increased registration by several percentage points in states where it was in effect, and boosted the number of people actually voting by more than 1%.
Shapiro, then the attorney general of Pennsylvania, fought Trump’s efforts to reverse his loss in the state that year.
Trump heavily backed Doug Mastriano, a 2020 election denier who organized buses to go to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, against Shapiro in the governor’s race in 2022.
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