Online Voter Reform Pros And Cons

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The method of selecting the President of the United States has not gone without controversy. Every stage of the election has found itself under pressure to reform. The process of electing the president has often been seen as unfair for one party or group or another for a variety of reasons. Voter registration and campaign financing are two aspects of the election system that can see change that often fall under the most scrutiny, especially during the most recent election cycle. As such they are two aspects that are most likely to see change. According to the United States Election Project, an average of 59.7 percent of eligible voters cast their ballots. Americans are one of the least active voting populations as a result online voter reform (OVR) has recently taken hold in more than half of the American states. In an age of marked …show more content…

Whereas the advancement of restrictive voter identification (ID) legislation has calcified into a leading fault line pitting Democrats against Republican. In more than two-dozen states support for online voter Registration (OVR) has been palpably more bipartisan. First authorized in 2002 by the Arizona Secretary of State, OVR allows individuals to register to vote online by verifying the identity of the new registrant with existing personal information on record, typically documents filed with the state’s division of motor vehicles. The enactment of OVR is not only becoming more prevalent; its passage has reached every region of the United States, mobilizing enthusiasts in both Republican- and Democratic-dominated legislatures. Republican-controlled Arizona and Indiana as well as Democratic-dominated Maryland and Massachusetts have adopted OVR. In the inner-Mountain West, the battleground state of Colorado and deep-red Utah have both approved the reform, and so has Oklahoma, a border South Republican bastion. All of the “blue” Pacific coast states (California, Oregon, and Washington) now permit eligible citizens to

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