Why Texas doesn't have online voter registration
Claudia Ortega Hogue, of the League of Women Voters, hands out voter registration applications to Nasib Kaur, left, and her son, Bobby Gill, following a Naturalization Ceremony at the M.O. Campbell Center on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016, in Houston., registering to vote is easier than ordering food delivery from a phone app.
The legislation is nothing new — Alvarado and others have been proposing the bill for a decade — but it remains unclear whether state leadership will consider it.As online voter registration has become the norm across the country, it appears to have become more controversial in Texas, not less. Florida debated online voter registration that same year but reached a different conclusion, with then-Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican,"Unfortunately, it's been a partisan issue here," Alvarado said."My friends on the other side of the aisle have not been open to it. We came close in 2015, and we fell short. I was in the House at the time. I had several Republicans that were on board, some that were my joint authors on the bill. But most of them aren't even around anymore.
In Arizona, a state that voted more than 20 years ago to create online voter registration, the cost of processing a voter registration application decreased from 83 cents per registration to only 3 cents, according to aState Sen. Paul Bettencourt, a Houston Republican and former Harris County tax assessor-collector who oversaw voter registration for a decade until 2008, is one of those who opposed online voter registration when it last was up for debate.
"We have online voter registration for certain people going through a certain transaction," Mirza said."Our lawsuit made it clear that the state has the ability to create a safe, secure system to provide online voter registration, because they're already doing it for voters who update their driver's license address or renew their driver's license."
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