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Wouldn't insisting on motor-voter take it to near 90% ? Most states refusing motor-voter are controlled by the hard right.

Sure hope there is a plan to fund 100% more voting locations and booths.

Because Republicans have figured out a great way to kill voting when they simply just have to give in and let people vote is to defund voting locations.

Unless the plan is to just have everyone vote absentee but that allows for votes to be "lost".

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Perhaps that has something to do with people who aren't supposed to vote, who's demographics skew to the left side of the political spectrum: - Foreign citizens with drivers licenses - Permanent residents with drivers licenses - Felons with drivers licenses - Drivers under the voting age of majority - Non-naturalized immigrants with drivers licenses.

ok, let's keep this simple: until having a drivers license is a requirement to vote in this country, let's not rely on driver's licenses as a requirement for voting. the DMV was not built to administer elections. that's what local election offices are for

We need to go beyond Motor Voter IMHO. The DMV was not built to be the foundation on which democracy rests. Also, a surprising number of Americans don't have driver's licenses.

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