Jerry Brown OKs Automatic Voter Registration Through DMV
California Governor Jerry Brown acted Saturday to increase participation in California elections and help prevent shootings at colleges, approving automatic voter registration and banning concealed weapons on campuses.
Brown also approved the nation’s toughest restriction against the use of antibiotics in healthy farm animals.
Citing the need for a stable state budget, he rejected a raft of proposals that would have created new tax credits. Among them was a measure that would have helped offset the cost of seismic retrofitting of buildings unsafe during an earthquake, a priority of officials in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
The record-low 42% turnout at the polls in last November’s state election spurred legislation that will allow eligible Californians to be automatically registered to vote when they obtain or renew a driver’s license at the DMV.
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