Murphy: Trump threatens voter rights. I'll massively expand them in New Jersey
NEWARK -- Democratic nominee for governor Phil Murphy appeared with former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday to disclose massive changes to New Jersey voting laws he would implement if elected.
Among them: automatically registering all licensed New Jersey drivers, allowing online voter registration, offering same-day registration at the polls and expanding voting rolls to include those who would be old enough to vote by the general election as well as ex-offenders.
"The most aggressive thing that we're talking about is automatic registration at the MVC," Murphy said at a campaign event in Newark, noting that New Jersey would become only the seventh state in the nation to do so.
The "motor voter" laws' effect on voting was immediate and substantial in states large and small. In Oregon, which has 4 million residents, added 250,000 new voters were added to its rolls. Voter turnout there jumped from 64 in the 2012 presidential election to 68 percent percent last year.
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