Bob Bauer and Trevor Potter have written this WaPo oped. A snippet: “There is a better way: In 2002, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act, which assisted states in centralizing their voter registration lists into single databases. The logical next step is to build on innovations put in place over the past few election cycles and shift the responsibility to automatically identify and register eligible voters from individuals and independent voter registration organizations to the states. An automatic system would eliminate the need for paper, alleviate the last-minute deluge of registration activity that consumes election officials and address the risks of registration fraud. Registration should also be portable, eliminating the unnecessary step of re-registering when one moves or changes one’s name. Finally, there should be fail-safe mechanisms — online and offline — for voters to securely update and correct information and vote on Election Day.”
VRM—keep your eye on it.