More than 16,000 New Yorkers have used new online voter registration Web site

ALBANY — More than 16,000 New Yorkers – including almost 6,000 first-time voters – have used the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) new online voter registration service, the governor’s office announced last week.
The initiative, announced Aug. 16, streamlines DMV services by allowing New Yorkers to apply to register to vote, or update their address or party enrollment, through a secure online site.
To date, more than 16,000 New Yorkers have used the online system to register to vote or to change their address or party enrollment.
Now, when processing any license transaction at DMV, customers may complete a voter registration application using the payment terminal devices that are used to swipe debit or credit cards.
This process will expand to every DMV office in the state this week. New York is ranked 47th in the nation in voter registration, with less than 64 percent of eligible residents registered to vote.

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The Web site can be found at https://my.dmv.ny.gov/crm/ and can be used by any New Yorker with a driver’s license or non-driver ID.
The new system, which will also include digitized voter registration at electronic VeriFone terminals at New York’s 129 DMV locations, replaced the vast majority of paper forms and is designed to help centralize the digital transmission of voter registration applications and minimize errors in the system.
The measure is expected to save New York State more than $270,000 a year and more than $350,000 a year for the county Boards of Election.
In 2013, the MyDMV service will electronically transmit all voter information to the county Boards of Elections, significantly reducing entry times for those BOEs.