From vote-by-mail to making Election Day a national holiday, voting rights advocates are engaged in myriad efforts to increase voting access. “Generating higher voter turnout is critical toward building a healthy democracy that works for everyone,” says Andrea Hailey, CEO at Vote.org. “Studies show that automatic voter registration does increase voter registration and slightly increases voter turnout as it does eliminate a key barrier to voting, the registration process,” says Alberda. Another innovation in voter registration is pre-registration, which allows young people to register to vote before reaching voting age. The nonpartisan research group Voting Rights Lab has tracked a surge in restrictive voter identification laws, restrictions on mail voting, and other policies undermining voting rights in the last decade.