Clinton calling for universal, automatic, voter registration....

[Half-Century Man]

92. Just to clarify, I do not mean persons serving punitive sentences.

Merely the people currently subject to immediate threat by elected officials (ie, city/state prosecutors). I see this as a safeguard against mass arrests near election times. Alternative suggestions are welcome.

Just because a citizen has made a one time mistake, made an ever escalating series of poor choices, or been driven by desperation to go beyond allowable boundaries, should not be enough to exclude them from a voice in society. The only reason laws stripping a citizen from the right to vote exist are to systematically strip a targeted group from equal representation. As has been and currently being done to African Americans, particularly the men.

To a lesser extent the fact a citizen has to actively individually seek out and register to exercise their Constitutionally granted right to express themselves through a vote, is a form of voter suppression. An automatic registry at 18 is a good idea.
As is an Election Holiday, early voting, voting by mail, and using exclusively paper hand counted ballots.