This June, New York City will become the first major metropolis in the United States to require high school seniors to receive a voter registration application along with their diplomas on graduation day.

Current voter registration drives do not yield 100% voter registration. Instead nearly 30% of the voting age population remains unregistered and is effectively shut out of the political process. This New York City nitiative is a key example of how a local community can take it upon itself to create clean and complete voter rolls thus ensuring that every eligible citizen is able to participate in the political process [more].