PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - State elections officials say they'll begin reaching out by mail to 145,000 Oregonians this week with voter registration paperwork as part of Oregon's new "motor voter" law.
The group represents people who applied for or renewed a driver's license or state ID card during 2014 and 2015, which would've gotten them automatically registered if they had done so this year instead of when the automatic voter registration system kicked in.
The Oregon Secretary of State's office says it'll begin sending out the mailers on Friday.
It'll mark the second and final phase of the new law, which registered nearly 52,000 new voters through April and is being replicated in at least three other states. Although it's unclear how many will respond.
