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The Daily Northwestern reports
The Illinois Senate voted 38-18 on [November 16] to override Gov. Bruce Rauner's veto of an automatic voter registration bill.
The bill [...] would automatically register voters who are seeking a new or updated license, or who are seeking other services from state departments such as Human Services or Healthcare and Family Services.
[...]The only two things a citizen should need to vote is being 18 years old and a citizen.
[...]The bill received bipartisan support when it passed through the House by a vote of 86-30 and the Senate with a vote of 42-16.
[...]To fully override Rauner's veto, the Illinois House will also have to vote to override, but it will not back in session until Nov. 29.
More information on Automatic Voter Registration can be found here.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 20 2016, @02:23PM
The other half Insist on seeing some government document or ID, before allowing someone to vote, just to ensure that the person voting is (a) who they say they are, and (b) qualified to vote. I never have understood the resistance to voter-ID laws.
It is a simple cost/benefit analysis.
The benefit of checking ID is to prevent an election from being manipulated. But voter impersonation is the least effective way to accomplish that because it is a lot of work for each individual vote: you have to know who is registered for that specific polling station, you have to assure that they do not come out and vote and thus discover the impersonation and you have to do it one vote at a time when you typically need hundreds if not thousands of fraudulent votes to change the result for even a local race. So the benefit to the state is very limited.
However the cost of checking ID is not born by the state, it is born by the citizen. If there is some problem with your ID then your entire vote is at risk. You only get one, so losing it is a big deal to you.
Its a classic libertarian analysis - do not put an undue burden on the citizen for a nominal benefit to the state.