Automatic U.S. military draft registration planned by December, filing shows

61 comments from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697670

What's the difference between that and what's in place now? I thought every male had to register within 30 days of their 18th birthday.

That mandatory isn’t the same as automatic?

Also, I’d guess that there are a ton of people who are not in fact aware of that requirement.

> mandatory isn’t the same as automatic

We know what the pieces are in the mandatory system.

What pieces make up automatic registration?

The proposal would implement a requirement passed by Congress to include automatic registration for "every male citizen of the United States" between the ages of 18 and 26.