Roughly one-third of eligible voters are not registered to vote, but more than 90 percent of Americans own a mobile phone.
HelloVote is designed to close that gap by using phones to help everyone register to vote for the upcoming election. The bot can register voters in all 50 states, and it takes the average voter 90 seconds to register, the bot's maker said.
Voters can go to hello.vote, text 384-387, or chat with the HelloVote Facebook Messenger bot.
HelloVote is a project of Fight for the Future, a group that wants to see technology used for good.
"HelloVote takes the registration process right to the voter -- instead of the other way around, and may make millennials, immigrants, and communities of color the decisive game-changers in this closely contested election up and down the ballot by leveraging up-to-date technology and social media," HelloVote said in a statement announcing the bot's launch today.
