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motor voter law

noun

  1. a law that enables prospective voters to register when they obtain or renew a driver's license.


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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of motor voter law1

First recorded in 1990–93
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A federal judge in Phoenix had blocked the 2022 law from taking effect because it clashed with the federal “motor voter” law and a 2013 Supreme Court ruling that had upheld the law in an Arizona case.

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The National Voter Registration Act, commonly known as the “motor voter” law, allowed prospective voters to fill out a form to register and sign a sworn statement that they were U.S. citizens.

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They won in the lower courts, and the Supreme Court ruled in 2013 that the federal motor voter law preempted or overrode the state’s law.

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District Judge Susan Bolton in Phoenix blocked enforcement of the new proof-of-citizenship requirement, citing the federal motor voter law and the state consent decree.

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Hundreds of noncitizens have been kicked off Chicago’s voter rolls after admitting they were never supposed to have been registered in the first place, according to a new study that blames the Motor Voter law for how the names got added in the first place.

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