That’s the lead story in the new Electionline Weekly.
The Weekly also includes this item about a report I posted on a while back:

The Real Cost of Voter Registration: An Oregon Case Study – Pew Center on the States, Revised March 2010: Originally released by the Pew Center on the States in December 2009, “The Real Cost of Voter Registration: An Oregon Case Study,” noted the difficulty in determining voter registration costs and created a model–based on Oregon’s experience–for states to estimate their registration expenses. We recently received updated information from the Oregon Secretary of State’s office regarding the allocation of voter registration costs between the counties and the state. As a result of this new information and to address a miscalculation of the state costs, we are reducing the total amount spent on voter registration in 2008 from $9.7 million to $8.8 million in the report. These updates will result in additional adjustments including the average cost per registered voter moving to $4.11 from $4.51, and the average cost per voter registration transaction moving to $7.67 from $8.43. Please see the revised report and errata sheet for more details.