Sentences with phrase «voters registration laws»

Attorney General Eric Holder said the Florida program clearly violated voter registration laws.

Conklin noted it's up to lawmakers to change voter registration laws, and automatic registration would require amending the state Constitution, which means two straight sessions of the Legislature would have to pass identical bills before it would go to voters on the ballot.

Oregon and California have adopted automatic voter registration laws this year.

The U.S. Justice Department announced it filed a motion to join a lawsuit against the New York City Board of Elections, alleging that the board's Brooklyn office violated federal voter registration law by erasing more than 117,000 Brooklyn voters from the rolls before the primary election simply because they had not voted in previous elections.

California has recently enacted new voter registration laws that involve the DMV.

In a time when states are actively working to mandate strict voter registration laws to disenfranchise voters under the guise of minimizing voter fraud, it is essential that Arizona elect a secretary of state who understands Arizona from the ground up.

At 10:30 a.m., state lawmakers call for changes to the state's voter registration laws to make it easier to register, outside Erie County Board of Elections, 134 West Eagle St., Buffalo.

Meanwhile, good government advocates say the confusion during yesterday's primary voting suggested the state's voter registration laws should be expanded to make it easier to register to vote.

After voters complained of being purged from registration rolls in New York City and others knocked the rules that prevented them from registering in party in order to participate in the Tuesday presidential primary, a new push could be made in the post-budget session for changing the state's voter registration laws.

«You overlay that with the lousy system of running elections in general — which is, voter registration laws are cumbersome, we have a closed primary system, getting on the ballot is difficult — and as a result New York has anemic voter turnout, one of the worst in the country.»