Motor voter is crap. If someone isn’t intelligent and involved enough to get themselves down to the supervisor of elections’ office to register, they don’t deserve to vote.
This includes military members by the way.
My husband was in Iraq in 2008. Knowing McCain would need every last vote (particularly here in FL) he requested an absentee ballot. Two days before the election it arrived at my house. They had the right address but it had been sent back and the SOE had to look up his home address to send it out. So I know first hand about the problem with disenfranchisement of military voters.
I won’t post what I did with it here ;-)
Sad to say, there are just too many experiences like your husband’s happening all over.
Military in the field must sign a form requesting a ballot, wait for the ballot, fill it out and send it in. Problem is, often the time periods taken for the forms to be sent and returned do not allow the ballot to be returned on time for election because the soldier didn’t receive the ballot in time.