Hillary Clinton Calls For Automatic, Universal Voter Registration
Source: Huffington Post
WASHINGTON -- Hillary Clinton in a speech on Thursday called for universal, automatic voter registration, saying every citizen in the country should be automatically registered to vote when they turn 18, unless they opt-out.
Clinton spoke at Texas Southern University in Houston, where she was receiving the Barbara Jordan Public-Private Leadership Award. She also said Republican-led efforts in several states to further regulate voting and voter registration disproportionately harm both underrepresented communities and young people, adding that Republicans need to "stop fear mongering" about the "phantom epidemic" of voter fraud.
Clinton also called for a national standard that would require every state in the country to offer at least 20 days of early in-person voting, including keeping polling stations open on weekends and evenings.
During her speech, Clinton also called on Congress to pass legislation to give the federal government power to review changes to state voting laws before they go into effect. A Supreme Court decision in 2013 struck down a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act that required certain states to have their voting changes pre-cleared by the Justice Department or by a panel of federal judges before they were implemented.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/04/hillary-clinton-voting-rights_n_7513858.html
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Hope it will go as well as the computerized medical records have done us! 
& do not recommend.
Oh wait, I guess now I do. Never mind.
......53 years ago. On this, though, I doubt we'll hear "SEE, she changed her position AGAIN!"
Hillary Clinton calls for sweeping expansion of voter registration
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Democratic presidential candidate calls for expanded voter access, picking a fight with Republicans who favor restrictions. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)
By Anne Gearan and Niraj Chokshi June 4 at 4:06 PM
HOUSTON – Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday called for sweeping changes in national voter registration laws aimed at making it easier for young people and minorities to take part in elections, putting her on a collision course with Republicans who say such reforms are a political ploy that would lead to widespread abuses.
In a speech at a historically black college here, Clinton called for federal legislation that would automatically register Americans to vote at age 18 and would mandate at least 20 days of early voting ahead of election days in all states.
She also took aim at several of her potential GOP opponents in some of the most sharply political remarks of her campaign so far. Calling them out by name, Clinton cited former Florida Jeb Bush, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Texas governor Rick Perry and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker for enacting voter restrictions.
“Today Republicans are systematically and deliberately trying to stop millions of American citizens from voting,” Clinton said. “What part of democracy are they afraid of?”.......................
Don't you think the same could have been said about Social Security when FDR first proposed it? Great ideas stand on their own. The details come later. And what you mentioned is actually easily solved. Periodic mailings could be done to keep the addresses updated. You can add email addresses or cell phone numbers as well to remind people. With today's connectivity it is not that difficult. Would some people still get lost? Sure, but the bottom line is number of people who could vote if they wanted to would drastically increase and it would be more difficult for politicians to suppress voting by putting up registration road blocks.
They can't be against it, they can't be for it. So they are going to be stepping in it all over the place. Let the games begin. 
