A national identification card with automatic voter registration for all qualified American citizens would broaden the electorate across racial, ethnic, ideological, social class and regional divides.

Theda Skocpol is a professor of government and sociology at Harvard. Universal automatic voter registration for all citizens who will be 18 by the next Election Day, plus an Election Day holiday.

If you're one of the more than 180,000 Iowans recently removed from the state's voting rolls, you have some options to get your voter registration back. The Iowa Secretary of State's Office ...