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Cheap And Fast, Online Voter Registration Catches On
Cheap And Fast, Online Voter Registration Catches Onhttp://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/05/18/407724279/cheap-and-fast-online-voter-registration-catches-on
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Voters in more than half the states will soon be able to register online, rather than filling out a paper form and sending it in.
Twenty states have implemented online voter registration so far, almost all in the past few years. Seven other states and the District of Columbia are now in the process of doing so. That includes Florida, where Republican Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill last Friday requiring the state to allow online voter registration by 2017.
Online voter registration has become so popular because election officials say it's more efficient than a paper-based system, and cheaper.
Voters like it because they can register any time of day from home, said David Becker, director of election initiatives for the Pew Charitable Trusts.
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