Registered voters should automatically receive mail-in ballots for next election, senator says
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is suggesting that states should automatically mail ballots to eligible voters for the November elections, calling it a "better approach" than requiring them to request mail-in ballots.
The New York Democrat made the suggestion amid the highly contagious coronavirus in the U.S. and around the world, which has sparked health-safety concerns about voters crowding polling stations.
Right now, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah and Washington automatically mail ballots to voters, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Despite her personal support for the automatic mailing of ballots, Gillibrand, a member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, does not think Congress will set national standards for voting by mail in the next coronavirus package.