Some 220,000 new and renewing voters registered online in the two weeks that the system's been available in California.

The decision to open voter rolls to online registrations is pulling in thousands more new and renewing voters in Los Angeles County and throughout California.

Under the old system, you could download a registration form and mail it in to your county registrar. Or go visit a public office like city hall, the library or Department of Motor Vehicles (remember the oh-so controversial Motor Voter law?) But then California lowered the effort bar even further, letting voters register online.

Some 220,000 new and renewing voters registered online in the two weeks it's been available, says Shannan Velayas of the Secretary of State's office.

Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters reports it has received a record 150,000 new or renewing voter registrations in September, partly because of the online registration that was first offered statewide late in the month.

County registrars typically get a large number of new and renewed registrations in the last weeks before a presidential race, but last month's online-assisted registration total outstripped the old 120,000 record set in 2008.

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In the first week of online registration in California, some 110,000 people used Registertovote.ca.gov to register or update their registrations, according to the Secretary of State's office.

Here's how the new system is playing out online:

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