A favorite ogre of RedState and some other conservatives is ACORN. One of the main things ACORN and political volunteers do is hand out county voter registration forms.
This is tremendously inefficient: volunteers often approach people who are already registered, and many people are approached more than once. So I propose to make ACORN's voter registration moot, and they'll likely stop doing it.
In 2010, federal agents will try to visit every household, to count people. Like everything that Obama does, FOX news will spin the census as "exxcessive government involvement in people's lives": the fact that this has happened every ten years since 1800 will not deter them, I expect. In addition to counting, I propose that the census folks hand out voter registration forms.
This will mean that virtually everyone in the country will be approached, once, and invited to vote.
There are two problems I see with this:
Voter registration forms differ from county to county. Within one state, of course, they may be different only in the county name printed on the form, but between states they may differ more. I propose though, that the federal government devise a universal form for voter registration. This would save counties and other organizations money in printing the forms and storing them.
It could slow the census-takers down, having to carry around reams of voter registration forms. In most areas, though, the census is done from a car, so the census-takers could just have many forms with them but only take one or two into the residency.
An advantage of this is that counting people may not be perceived as a "service". Since the economy is bad, so-called fiscal conservatives may advocate the census be postponed or canceled. Handing out voter registration forms would be something that (most) people would appreciate.
It also would save the counties money printing the forms, storing them, and distributing them. In the short term it would create a glut of work in many counties as completed forms pour in, but they would get that taken care of in time, and since the census could and should be done well before most elections, that would be fine.
ACORN wouldn't go away, of course, so it could still serve as conservatives' bugaboo. But they would likely scale way back or even cancel their voter registration efforts, since most of the people they advocate for in the US would already be registered voters.