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*”voter registration” in the ‘united states’ takes place at the ‘county level’*
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(it is a ‘prerequisite’ to ‘voting’ in — ‘federal’ / ‘state’ / ‘local’ — elections)
(the only exception is ‘north dakota’, which does not require ‘registration’, although ‘north dakota law’ allows cities to register voters for ‘city elections’)
(the majority of ‘states’ set ‘cutoff dates’ for ‘voter registration’, ranging from 2 to 4 weeks before an ‘election’)
(…while other ‘states’ have ‘election day’ (or ‘same-day’) voter registration)
(which enables ‘eligible citizens’ to ‘register’ or ‘update’ their ‘registration’ when they arrive to vote)
(it has been argued that some ‘registration requirements’ deter some people (especially ‘disadvantaged people’) from ‘registering’ (+ therefore ‘exercising’) their right to vote, resulting in a ‘lower voter turnout’)
(according to a ‘2012 study’, 24% of the ‘voting-eligible population’ in the ‘united states’ are not registered to vote, equaling some ’51 million american citizens’)
(while voters traditionally had to register at ‘government offices’ by a certain period of time before an ‘election’, in the ‘mid-1990s’, the ‘federal government’ made efforts to facilitate ‘registering’ (in an attempt to increase ‘turnout’))
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(the ‘national voter registration act of 1993’ (aka the ‘motor voter law’) now requires ‘state governments’ to either…)
provide ‘uniform opt-in registration services’ through — ‘drivers’ license registration centers’ / ‘disability centers’ / ‘schools’ / ‘libraries’ / ‘mail-in registration’ –…
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to allow ‘election day voter registration’, where voters can register at ‘polling places’ immediately prior to ‘voting’)
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(in 2016, ‘oregon’ became the first state to make ‘voter registration’ fully automatic (aka ‘opt-out’) when issuing ‘driver licenses’ + ‘ID cards’, since followed by 4 more ‘states’)
(‘political parties’ + other ‘organizations’ sometimes hold ‘voter registration drives’ to register new voters)
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(in most states, persons registering to vote may at the same time declare an ‘affiliation’ with a ‘political party’)
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