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Only South Carolina, Arizona and Nevada have registration less than Virginia’s 58 percent.
In an article in the University of Virginia’s Journal, government professor Larry Sabato maintains that the commonwealth has not made the effort that other states have made. He blames the low rate on the difficulties of registering, pointing out that Virginia doesn’t allow registration by mail, closes registration one month before voting day (much earlier than most other states) and purges from the voter lists those who have not voted in four years.
But just how difficult is registering? It takes at most a half hour to drive to the registrar’s office in the town of Washington from any point in the county. So that’s an hour round trip and about five minutes for the paper work involved with registering. Most of us drive further than that each week to shop for groceries or take in a movie or reach a job. It’s not the distance. When the registrars went the road, setting up shop
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