If you want to vote in Oregon, and you are legally eligible, you're in. If you don't want to vote, you're still in. It's all good. With this new law,

Maria I. La Ganga with the LA Times reports:

In front of a packed and cheering audience Monday, Gov. Kate Brown signed a first-in-the-nation bill to automatically register all eligible Oregonians to vote when they obtain or renew a driver’s license or state identification card. Those who are registered through the new process will be notified by mail and will be given three weeks to take themselves off the voting rolls. If they do not opt out, the secretary of state’s office will mail them a ballot automatically 20 days before any election.

“Oregon takes it further than any other state by putting the burden on the government,” said Perez, whose organization is part of New York University School of Law. “Instead of asking voters, ‘Do you want to register to vote?’ they ask voters, ‘Do you not want to vote?’”

The former Oregon Secretary of State and Democrat, Governor Kate Brown , took office last month and has been a staunch advocate for voting rights and easy access to the ballot box. HB 2177 is proof and the bill will undoubtedly lead to higher voter participation. And isn't that what Americans want? Myrna Perez, director of the Voting Rights and Elections Project at the Brennan Center for Justice, calls the new law 'groundbreaking.'La Ganga's entire story is a very good read. I'll add one more newsworthy tidbit from her piece here: HB 2177 passed in both chambers of the state Legislature

Oh, my. Heads are spinning. Thank you, Governor Kate Brown.

Special thanks to Max V. Shevek, Angela Lux, and Facebook page Being Liberal . Thanks also to kossacks 'Ed Tracey' and 'Oregon Dude.'