Last year, according to a spokesperson for Bowen's office, more than 150 schools confirmed they offered the online registration link, and many others requested more than 24,000
paper voter registration applications for their students who were nearing the voting age of 18.
The new system replaced the vast majority of paper forms and is designed to help centralize the digital transmission
of voter registration applications, as well as minimize errors in the system.
In addition, applications to state and local agencies would
incorporate voter registration applications as a seamless process for voters and facilitate electronic processing and registration by the boards of elections (A. 6283, Walker).
Until then, the DMV will print the electronically -
captured voter registration applications with a digitized signature and mail them from their central Albany office to the county boards of elections.
MyDMV, New York state's online voter registration system, processed more than 40,883
voter registration applications within a 10 - day period between March 10 and March 20, according to a press release from Cuomo's office.
Bowen's office says it contacts every California high school each year encouraging them to offer voter registration to eligible students with either paper registration applications or a link on the high school website to the state's online
voter registration application at RegisterToVote.ca.gov.
Barton and Jones had company Wednesday at their school, where a table of laptop computers was set up for online voter registration, and an Elections Office staffer had old - fashioned,
paper voter registration applications.
The Cuomo administration says that since the launch of online voter registration in 2012, there have been over 921,922
online voter registration applications, including 430,886 who identified themselves as first - time voters.
Upon completion, DMV sends
the voter registration applications to the County Board of Elections for action.
Now, when processing any license transaction at the DMV, customers may complete
a voter registration application using the payment terminal devices that are used to swipe debit or credit cards.
That's in comparison to 9,200
voter registration applications, including nearly 3,400 from first - time voters, last year.
Michele Adolphe, a candidate for the 42nd District seat being vacated by long - time Assemblywoman Rhonda Jacobs, said records show her rival Rodneyse Bichotte failed to submit
a voter registration application when she moved to New York from Illinois.