Across the nation excitement is building for automatic voter registration, a groundbreaking reform that puts the onus on the government to register eligible citizens to vote when they do business at state agencies. Every governor presented with automatic registration legislation has signed it into law -- until now. On Monday, Gov. Chris Christie vetoed the Democracy Act -- preventing New Jersey from becoming the third state, after Oregon and California, to adopt automatic registration in 2015. The Democracy Act also would have given voters the opportunity to register and update their information online, and created two weeks of in-person early voting, among...
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