Sec. 2. Automatic registration of eligible individuals

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The chief State election official of each State shall establish and operate a system of automatic registration for the registration of eligible individuals to vote for elections for Federal office in the State, in accordance with the provisions of this Act. The term automatic registration means a system that registers an individual to vote in elections for Federal office in a State, if eligible, by electronically transferring the information necessary for registration from government agencies to election officials of the State so that, unless the individual affirmatively declines to be registered, the individual will be registered to vote in such elections.

The chief State election official shall— ensure that any individual who is eligible to register to vote in elections for Federal office in the State is promptly registered to vote after the individual has not declined registration and the individual’s information has been transmitted by a contributing agency pursuant to section 3; and send written notice to the individual, in addition to other means of notice established by this Act, of the individual’s voter registration status.

The chief State election official shall— identify all individuals whose information is transmitted by a contributing agency pursuant to section 4 and who are eligible to be, but are not currently, registered to vote in that State; promptly send each such individual written notice, in addition to other means of notice established by this Act, which shall not identify the contributing agency that transmitted the information but shall include— an explanation that voter registration is voluntary, but if the individual does not decline registration, the individual will be registered to vote; a statement offering the opportunity to decline voter registration through any means set forth by the State consistent with this Act’s requirements; in the case of a State in which affiliation or enrollment with a political party is required in order to participate in an election to select the party’s candidate in an election for Federal office, a statement offering the individual the opportunity to affiliate or enroll with a political party or to decline to affiliate or enroll with a political party, through such means as the State may establish consistent with the requirements of this Act; the substantive qualifications of an elector in the State; the instruction that the individual should decline registration if ineligible to vote; instructions for correcting an erroneous registration; and instructions for providing any additional information which is required under State law for voter registration purposes and reasonably related to the management of elections; ensure that each such individual who is eligible to register to vote in elections for Federal office in the State is promptly registered to vote, unless the individual declines registration by providing the appropriate State election official with notice within the specified time period; and send written notice to each such individual, in addition to other means of notice established by this Act, of the individual’s voter registration status.

In this Act, the term contributing agency means, with respect to a State, an agency listed in section 3(e).