“The letter — from the NAACP’s New Jersey state conference as well as attorneys from Rutgers Constitutional Law Clinic, Project Vote, Demos and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law — says social services agencies have bad policies and are not consistently providing registration forms when required to do so.

Since 1995, the letter says, there has been a decline in the number of voters registered at public assistance agencies in New Jersey, even as the number of people seeking assistance increased.”

Link.  A decline in the number of voters registered at public assistance agencies, even as the numbers seeking assistance has increased, can be explained any number of ways.  Here’s two. First, the number of people who want to participate in the political process is tapped out.  Plenty of people voluntarily decide not to participate, and that is their right.  Second, in the stagnating economy, those seeking public assistance are coming from the formerly-working word, and in that world, they were already registered to vote. So when they are asked to register at a government welfare agency, they don’t use the opportunity. 

But those possibilities would have muddied up the NAACP press release.