Oregon legislature passes automatic voter registration

[Antonio the Sixth]

if the Oregon GOP was decimated to the post of say, Hawaii's GOP or Utah's Dems

Automatic registration doesn't make that big of a difference.

[Antonio the Sixth]

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.

[Antonio the Sixth]

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

But that line of thinking is fundamentally undemocratic. If you think uninformed people shouldn't vote, why not reinstate literacy tests? If you accept the principle of universal suffrage, you cannot view the fact that certain people don't vote as a positive thing.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Oregon's new law is a 1st step in the right direction, but still far away from European style automatic voter registration systems, which basically really register 99.99% of all eligible people to vote.

Even in Europe, I think there's some variation between country. In France, estimates hold that nearly 10% of the eligible population remains unregistered.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Oregon's new law is a 1st step in the right direction, but still far away from European style automatic voter registration systems, which basically really register 99.99% of all eligible people to vote.

Even in Europe, I think there's some variation between country. In France, estimates hold that nearly 10% of the eligible population remains unregistered.

Are you sure ?

10% seems pretty high for France.

Do you have any links ?

I don't have links unfortunately, but I remember one of my professors told us that in a class last year. I was pretty surprised to find out.

I guess this might have something to do with the fact that we only introduced AVR in the late 1990s. If so, this share is bound to decline over the next decades.