 welfare office they were automatically giving these out because many of those states had laws that said when you go into the dmv or you go into the food stamp office we have to give you a voter registration card one of those states was virginia i lived in virginia for a couple years did a radio show in richmond and uh when i went down to the dmv to get my driver's license uh transferred over to virginia they automatically handed me a voter registration card now what was interesting was they gave me a choice of being an independent or a republican or democrat and uh if you didn't