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Dan Walters Daily: Expanding California voter registration is no solution


Secretary of State Alex Padilla is pushing for California to automatically register citizens to vote when they get or renew a driver’s license, similar to a law in Oregon.
Secretary of State Alex Padilla is pushing for California to automatically register citizens to vote when they get or renew a driver’s license, similar to a law in Oregon. The Sacramento Bee

Efforts to increase California’s voter participation would probably just result in an even lower turnout rate, Dan says.

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Call The Bee’s Alexei Koseff, (916) 321-5236. Follow him on Twitter @akoseff.

This story was originally published March 30, 2015 at 10:59 PM.

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