Sec. 311. 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 newly naturalized individuals to vote for elections for Federal office in the State, in accordance with the provisions of this part. For the purpose of this section: The term automatic registration means a system that registers an individual to vote in elections for Federal office in a State, if eligible, by transferring the information necessary for registration from the Department of Homeland Security to election officials of the State so that, unless the individual affirmatively declines to be registered or is determined to be ineligible for registration, the individual will be registered to vote in such elections.
The term newly naturalized refers to an individual with an approved application for naturalization admitted for United States citizenship who has taken the oath described in section 337 of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1448 ) and received a certificate of naturalization under section 338 of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1449 ). The chief State election official shall— upon receiving information from the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security concerning a person who has received a certificate of naturalization pursuant to section 338 of the Immigration and Nationality Act and who has not declined such registration— ensure that such person fulfills any local or State qualifications to register to vote related to legal competency and to past criminal convictions; and determine whether such person is subject to privacy protections for victims of domestic violence or for people with sensitive or high-profile professions; not later than 15 days after the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security has transmitted information with respect to an individual pursuant to section 312, ensure that the individual is registered to vote in elections for Federal office in the State if the individual is not disqualified from voting by reason of incompetency or past criminal conviction; not later than 45 days after the Secretary has transmitted such information with respect to the individual, send written notice to the individual, in addition to other means of notice established by this part, of the individual’s voter registration status; and exclude from all public availability or disclosure the voter registration records of any such individuals who are protected by applicable State or local laws that prevent publication of the home address and other personally identifying information about victims of domestic violence and people with sensitive or high-profile professions.
The written notice chief State election officials shall promptly send each individual whose information is transmitted by the Secretary of Homeland Security pursuant to this part shall include— notice that the individual has been registered to vote; the substantive qualifications of an elector in the State as listed in the mail voter registration application form for elections for Federal office prescribed pursuant to section 9 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, the consequences of false registration, and a statement that the individual should cancel registration if the individual does not meet all those qualifications, and instructions for cancelling registration; and instructions for correcting any erroneous information in the individual’s voter registration record.
A State may not refuse to treat an individual as an eligible individual for purposes of this part on the grounds that the individual is less than 18 years of age at the time the Secretary receives information with respect to the individual, so long as the individual is at least 16 years of age at such time.
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