That's why we have worked for the past year, alongside a coalition of legislators from around the state, to develop the Freedom to Vote Act. Our goal is to modernize the process of voter registration, which has remained essentially unchanged for decades. Many voters still register under an antiquated model — by filling out a paper voter registration form and entrusting a volunteer voter registrar to properly submit it. This method of registering voters through middlemen leaves open the possibility of mistakes or worse, as we saw a few years ago when an employee of a Republican consulting firm in Virginia literally threw completed voter registration forms in the trash.