There's a push in Congress to make military draft registration automatic nationwide.

We have a better idea: make voter registration automatic!

Every election season, thousands of volunteers toil endless hours on a task that need not exist at all: registering voters. And voters are denied the right to vote when told they are not registered.

Alaska, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia  have made voter registration automatic. Your state is 100% capable of taking the same step.

We're at 22 states plus DC. But 39 states have automatic registration for a military draft. Where are our priorities?

Click here to send a quick email to your state legislators and governor letting them know you want voter registration to be automatic.

With automatic registration for voting -- an opt-out option instead of "jump through hoops to register," as required in many states -- nobody is required to vote or even be registered. Rather, a government that already knows who we are through motor vehicle and other departments simply allows us to vote.

As a result, more people vote and candidates have to win the votes of more people. Quite possibly more candidates gain traction.

It becomes easier to place initiatives on the ballot by gathering the signatures of registered voters.

Volunteers can set aside the endless work of voter registration and instead promote the policy positions they care about.