Lawmakers in the Florida House and Senate have filed bills this week that would let citizens sign up to vote online. The online voter registration bill is a priority for the Florida League of Women Voters.
The bills filed by Rep. Alan Williams (D-Tallahassee) and Sen. Jeff Clemens (D-Lakeworth) would require the Department of State to develop an online voter registration system and require the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to verify registration information. Florida League of Women Voters President Deirdre Macnab says 24 other states have online registration programs.
“It’s much more cost effective than the current paper system and it makes it much more accessible to people and we see more people registering to vote,” Macnab says.
Macnab says she thinks allowing people to register online rather than with pen and paper will be more reliable because handwriting can sometimes be difficult to read.
