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Al Schmidt: “The Shapiro administration implemented automatic voter…”

Featuring: Al Schmidt, Republican | Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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The Participation Gap Panel | The Promise of Democracy Summit: 250 Years and the Path Ahead

Published | Video Starts at 21:53

Otherwise, with more flexibility, you'd want to target voters who are less likely to vote with voter education and sort of all the rest. What we did in 2023, on voter registration days, The Shapiro administration implemented automatic voter registration in Pennsylvania in 2023. And it's been a fantastic success for a couple of reasons. One is the number of the percentage of votes coming from PennDOT to our counties who are really the people who run elections in Pennsylvania. (21:53–22:04)

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Asserts that automatic voter registration was implemented in Pennsylvania in 2023.

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