National Voter Registration Act

United States [1993]
Also known as: NVRA, motor-voter law

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    In United States: Voting and elections

    …in 1993 Congress passed the National Voter Registration Act (the so-called “motor-voter law”), which required states to allow citizens to register to vote when they received their driver’s licenses, and in 1998 voters in Oregon approved a referendum that established a mail-in voting system. In addition, some states now allow…

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