Report: Blue States Automatically Registering Welfare Recipients to Vote

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Several blue states across the United States are automatically registering hundreds of thousands of residents to vote each year whenever they interact with state agencies, including welfare offices, a report from journalist John Fund details.
50% : In his report, Fund details how states with AVR get residents on voter rolls when people interact with state agencies -- including welfare offices, motor vehicle offices, and unemployment offices.
50% : Under federal law, the 1993 National Voter Registration Act and the 2002 Help America Vote Act require states to maintain accurate voter lists.
32% : [Emphasis added]Most recently, in 2023, Colorado dealt with a massive election scandal as it came to light that Secretary of State Jena Griswold's (D) office mistakenly sent mailers to more than 31,000 foreign nationals asking them to register to vote just weeks before the midterm elections.

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