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The draft health care bill unveiled by Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., on Wednesday contains language allowing consumers to sign up for health care at departments of motor vehicles, as well as hospitals, schools and Social Security offices.

The provision appears aimed, like the motor voter law is with registering to vote, at using the necessary evil of a trip to the DMV to facilitate the purchase of health insurance.

Could it also boost the number of voters -- filling out two forms while waiting in line isn't much harder than filling out one -- at a time when voter registration at DMVs appears to have fallen off?

Hoping to hear soon on that from the League of Women Voters.