Travis County’s voter registrar explains why online voter registration is good for business.
What business spends millions of dollars on paper forms and postage, and hires thousands of employees to decipher and manually enter the information into a computer? The State of Texas.Texas, the pro-business state that promises privacy to her citizens, refuses to protect the personal information of voters by not allowing online voter registration.
It took a federal court order in 2020 to force the state to allow online voter registration for Texans who use the internet to renew their state driver's licenses or update their addresses. And still, allowing all age-eligible citizens online voter registration has met stiff resistance at the Capitol. Consider this about online voter registration:
• Saves money. States with online voter registration report significant cost savings. It reduces the need for paid data-entry staff and millions of pieces of paper, which saves money and reduces the state's carbon footprint. In 2002, when former Arizona Republican Secretary of State Jan Brewer made the state the first in the country to offer online voter registration, the 83-cent cost to process a paper application plummeted to 3 cents for an online one.
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