It's definitely the case that, in Australia, when automatic registration was introduced it was introduced and supported by the left-of-centre parties who pundit

It's definitely the case that, in Australia, when automatic registration was introduced it was introduced and supported by the left-of-centre parties who pundits suppose would benefit from having extra voters on the roll, and weakly opposed by the right-of-centre parties who pundits suppose would be hurt from having the voters on the roll. But honestly, the idea that the government should track people down to put them in a registry strikes me as really unamerican, especially when you put it that way. I can imagine Democrats who would stand to benefit from it being like "That sounds yuck".