Vehicle for Change? `Motor Voter' on a Roll in Utah Motor Voter Drives Up Utah's Rolls

As many as 45,000 state residents registered to vote between January and August 1995 under the so-called ``motor voter'' law, which required the 50 states to make sign-up forms available at all public-assistance and driver-licensing offices. Perhaps more telling, three times as many Utah a...

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Published inThe Salt Lake tribune
Main Author Tony Semerad THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Salt Lake City, Utah The Salt Lake Tribune 27.10.1995
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Summary:As many as 45,000 state residents registered to vote between January and August 1995 under the so-called ``motor voter'' law, which required the 50 states to make sign-up forms available at all public-assistance and driver-licensing offices. Perhaps more telling, three times as many Utah applications to register have come in through motor-voter means than through traditional registration. Observers say motor voter could lead between 10 million and 20 million Americans to register nationally before the 1996 elections, a percentage increase larger than when women got the vote 75 years ago.
ISSN:0746-3502