Making voting easier: N.Y. automatic voter registration better late than never

The good news is that automatic voter registration — the process by which adult citizens are registered to vote when they interact with other state services like the DMV — is coming to New York. The bad news is that it was supposed to have come two years ago, were it not for what are frankly unsurprising delays from the rarely-speedy Board of Elections. We are now looking at an implementation in the second quarter of the new year, though it will vary based on each local agency implementing its...