Friday, April 24, 2015
COLUMBUS — Residents would be registered to vote automatically when seeking driver’s licenses or interacting with other state agencies, under legislation planned in the Ohio House and Senate.
The bills also would allow online voter registration and automatically register graduating high-school students.
The proposed law changes will be offered by Rep. Kathleen Clyde, D-Kent, and Sen. Kenny Yuko, D-Cleveland, who said in released statements today the legislation would add more than a million Ohioans to the state’s voter rolls.
“It’s 2015, and with all the technology we have at our disposal, there is no good reason not to modernize our voter-registration system,” Clyde said. “We can easily make a list of all eligible voters in our state. ... Ohio lags the highest-voter-turnout states by 10 percentage points. We aim to fix that.”