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Delaware Senate to Consider Improvement to Voter Registration System
On Tuesday, the Delaware Senate is expected to vote on SB 5, legislation to create an automatic voter registration system at the Delaware Division of Motor Vehicles, and potentially other state agencies.
Declaración de Claire Snyder-Hall, directora de Common Cause Delaware
Our government ‘by the people’ is stronger when more people participate. But right now, in Delaware, not everyone does.
Estimaciones del censo suggest that at least 10,000 Delawareans of voting age are not registered to vote. They also indicate that 12.6% of Delawareans have moved within the past year, and may not have updated their voter registration.
A simple change in Delaware’s voter registration process could ensure that todo eligible Delawareans are registered to vote at their current address – so they can participate in upcoming elections without bureaucratic barriers.
On Tuesday, the full Senate will vote on Senate Bill 5. Common Cause Delaware urges the Senate to pass the bill. For a one-time cost of less than $22,000, Delaware can fully implement “Automatic Voter Registration” and ensure that any updated name or address received from a registered voter during a DMV license or identification card transaction will automatically be forwarded to the Department of Elections.
Otros estados que han implementado el “AVR” han promocionado sus beneficios. Por ejemplo, el Secretario de Estado de Georgia atribuye a su sistema AVR el registro casi dos tercios de los votantes del estado del melocotón. El gobernador de Oregón llamó a AVR Un “éxito fenomenal” que aumentó el registro entre las minorías y entre los votantes menos urbanos y menos ricos. El Secretario de Estado de Connecticut dijo que AVR era "tremendamente exitoso” y le atribuyó el mérito de agregar 400.000 nuevos votantes y actualizar más de 550.000 registros anteriores.
AVR has been adopted and implemented in 19 states, and is part of the “For the People Act” now being debated in the US Senate. If implemented nationwideEl AVR podría registrar hasta 50 millones de nuevos votantes elegibles, al tiempo que haría más precisos los registros de votantes, ahorrando dinero y reduciendo la confusión y otros problemas en las urnas.
But Delaware doesn’t have to wait for Congress to pass the “For the People Act” to implement AVR here.
We urge our Senate to pass Senate Bill 5 when it comes to the floor on Tuesday.