Nowhere does the NVRA prohibit or regulate voter registration drives; rather, it impliedly encourages them.
See id. at
§ 1973gg–4(b) (directing the secretaries of state to make the federal forms provided for in the Act available, “with particular emphasis on making them available for organized voter registration programs”).
The only provisions regulating mailed forms are unrelated to the legitimacy of voter drives such as the Foundation's; instead, these provisions regulate the
states by ensuring that voters delivering valid forms in a timely fashion by mail are registered.
Id. at §§ 1973gg–2(a)(2), gg–6(a)(1)(D). In other words, they regulate the forms' final content and method of delivery, but do not regulate their dissemination or collection. Thus the Act does not prohibit registration drives, but, because it limits the states' ability to reject forms meeting its standards (which privately collected, mailed forms would do), it does protect them.
See § 1973gg–6(a)(1)(D) (stating that the states “shall ... ensure” that voters delivering timely, valid forms are registered); § 1973gg–2(a)(2) (states “shall accept” the federal mail-in form). For these reasons, it is clear that the Foundation's right to conduct voter registration drives is a legally protected interest.