Election Day Registration is a straightforward, secure, and proven reform to increase turnout and strengthen our democracy by eliminating arbitrary deadlines that prevent eligible voters from participating.

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Across the U.S., 23 states and D.C. have Election Day Registration, including our neighbors in Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire. It’s past time to modernize Massachusetts elections with this common-sense reform.

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Voting YES on Question 4
 

• Improves turnout

  • Many people don’t get interested in elections until the last week, when candidates step up mailers, ads, and door-to-door engagement. By then, it’s too late to register in Massachusetts.

  • Question 4 enables people to register at the polls on election day with identification and proof of residency.

 

• Increases voter confidence

  • Under current rules, registered voters who have moved, changed their names, been shifted to ‘inactive’ status, or face some other hitch at the polls can cast a provisional ballot — but those can take days or weeks to be verified and they are often rejected for technical reasons.

  • Question 4 enables people to re-register on the spot with ID and proof of residency so they can cast regular ballots that they know will be counted.

 

• Reduces the burden on elections officials

  • Question 4 would all but eliminate the tedious and time-consuming work of cross-checking provisional ballots against voter rolls

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Election Day Registration will strengthen our democracy!

It’s a proven and time-tested reform. All kinds of states have implemented it successfully: red, blue, and purple, large and small, urban and rural. Some have had it in place for more than 50 years. It’s a straightforward, secure, and proven way to boost voter turnout and streamline elections administration without adding costs.