CA: Gov. Brown signs automatic voter registration bill

[Miles]

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FF!

[user12345]

California has honestly become one of the best states.

[Negusa Nagast 🚀]

Brown has been on a roll the past few weeks.

[YaBoyNY]

Good job Mr. Brown, and God bless the state of California.

[TDAS04]

Excellent News!

[ElectionsGuy]

California has honestly become one of the best states.

Just recently? Well at least I know you only view states through politics.

[Famous Mortimer]

Registration should be automatic as soon as a citizen turns 18.

[NeverAgain]

Go Moonbeam!

[Bojack Horseman]

I'll never understand why Brown vetoes the bills he does. He vetoed extending family leave, right to try experimental drugs for terminally ill people, and criminal penalties on drone use, and last year, he had the gall to veto gun control bills. I can see the thing about drones, but extended family leave? Come on! Aside from it being the right thing to do for families, I'd jump at any chance to piss off the chamber of commerce...

[user12345]

California has honestly become one of the best states.

Just recently? Well at least I know you only view states through politics.

Let me clarify, it's become one of the best states politically lately. But considering all catagories, it's in my top 5.

[sparkey]

Why do we want the kind of voter who is politically inactive enough to not be bothered to register, or doesn't know how to register? Especially in a state in which we vote directly on so many laws.

I doubt this changes much other than maybe making party swings a bit less likely, as if we needed that.

[DS0816]

Good news, yes!

By the way: Every state requiring photo identification, in order to vote, should have photo identification (state identification or driver's license) … FREE OF CHARGE.

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Brown also irritatingly vetoed something that the average Atlasian should love:

http://reappropriate.co/2015/10/ca-gov-jerry-brown-vetoes-aapi-data-disaggregation-bill/

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Why do we want the kind of voter who is politically inactive enough to not be bothered to register, or doesn't know how to register? Especially in a state in which we vote directly on so many laws.

I doubt this changes much other than maybe making party swings a bit less likely, as if we needed that.

Well, there's this thing called democracy ...

[Bismarck]

Yay more morons who could care less pulling the dem lever.

[smoltchanov]

Yay more morons who could care less pulling the dem lever.

If these "morons" choose Democratic lever - there must be a reason for it, doesn't it? Who prevents Republicans from doing something to gain "morons" vote???

[YaBoyNY]

Yay more morons who could care less pulling the dem lever.

See how frightened Republicans are by greater and more widespread enfranchisement?

Republicans are the very anathema to a Democratic society.

[Suburbia]

Why do we want the kind of voter who is politically inactive enough to not be bothered to register, or doesn't know how to register? Especially in a state in which we vote directly on so many laws.

I doubt this changes much other than maybe making party swings a bit less likely, as if we needed that.

[Holmes]

California has honestly become one of the best states.

I dunno. It's really dry here. Everything is burnt and there's no life. It's lost its beauty and I don't know when it'll come back.

[Bismarck]

Yay more morons who could care less pulling the dem lever.

See how frightened Republicans are by greater and more widespread enfranchisement?

Republicans are the very anathema to a Democratic society.

Perhaps moron was too strong and uncalled for, however a strong democracy requires an informed citizenry. I don't understand the benefit of people who know nothing of the issues voting. I'd rather have only the informed people on both sides, and let the election be about issues and not about who is cooler or has a better slogan etc. Let's be honest, if uninformed and nonvoters leaned republican, you would not support this becoming law. Aside from helping democrats win elections, what benefit do you see to this? I really would like to hear this explained because to me it seems like naked partisanship.

[smoltchanov]

Yay more morons who could care less pulling the dem lever.

See how frightened Republicans are by greater and more widespread enfranchisement?

Republicans are the very anathema to a Democratic society.

Perhaps moron was too strong and uncalled for, however a strong democracy requires an informed citizenry. I don't understand the benefit of people who know nothing of the issues voting. I'd rather have only the informed people on both sides, and let the election be about issues and not about who is cooler or has a better slogan etc. Let's be honest, if uninformed and nonvoters leaned republican, you would not support this becoming law. Aside from helping democrats win elections, what benefit do you see to this? I really would like to hear this explained because to me it seems like naked partisanship.

May be. But what benefit, besides pure partisan, served crude Republican congressional and legislative gerrymandering in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and other  states? This is Democratic response - it serves a puropse of mobilizing their potential voters..

[Bismarck]

I agree that gerrymandering is bad. That doesn't mean this is good. Non sequitor.

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I support all people having an easy vote, no matter their ideological affiliation or even if they don't smugly view themselves as the "politically well-informed" elite. (Normal)

[Kingpoleon]

I'll never understand why Brown vetoes the bills he does. He vetoed extending family leave, right to try experimental drugs for terminally ill people, and criminal penalties on drone use, and last year, he had the gall to veto gun control bills. I can see the thing about drones, but extended family leave? Come on! Aside from it being the right thing to do for families, I'd jump at any chance to piss off the chamber of commerce...

He's called a libertarian, and he's probably the smartest man in American politics.

[DrScholl]

I can't remember where I saw it, but statistically people with less access to news and other information necessary to be considered politically informed usually vote Republican.