There have therefore been calls for automatic voter registration (AVR) from parliamentary committees, campaigners, politicians and academics to address some of these problems. Interest in automatic voter registration has no doubt been encouraged by debates in the US, where many states have introduced it in recent years. Debate about automatic voter registration has been made difficult by confusion about terminology with AVR used very loosely. Automatic voter registration is a broad principle and umbrella term that could in practice involve a range of different approaches. Options for automatic voter registrationThere are a variety of different pathways to automatic voter registration.