SB 397 (Yee) basically tells the State of California to haul its backward IT practices into the 21st Century.  Online voter registration is not really that difficult of a technological problem.  We have all the necessary data (including your signature from the DMV) that we could possibly need, so why the hold up?

Well, have you see the state’s various websites? They all scream 1998, and that’s probably being generous. The daily records for both houses are nearly impossible to find, and then bewildering once you do.  And online voter registration, well, you can print it out and mail it in.

But, should this law pass, that would be a thing of the past.  The measure would require counties to allow online voter registration well before the current 2015 deadline.  The bill just passed out of the Assembly elections committee and will hopefully be on the Governor’s desk in no time.

Maybe next we can get him an online veto pen.