During a Saturday session, the Washington State Senate overwhelmingly passed Senate Bill E3SSB 6353 which provides for automatic voter registration in Washington State.
Washington joins other Cascadian states such as Oregon in passing automatic voter registration, which was signed into law by Oregon Governor Kate Brown in 2015.
Automatic voter registration will increase the opportunity to register and vote without endangering the security of the election process.”
In Washington State, jury duty is tied to having a drivers license or state ID card, rather than voter registration.
Automatic voter registration would only affect legal residents of Washington State.
Oregon was the first state in the United States to pass automatic voter registration.
States that have introduced automatic voter registration in 2018 currently are Washington, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Oklahoma, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Mississippi, Tennessee, Florida, Virginia, Maryland and New Jersey. »