I don't think it is a strange idea in our "modern" world for automatic voting.
This is, after all, a country considering the dumbest idea on the planet, that of driverless cars (I know, unrelated).
I can easily see at time of issue a choice for always voting one party or the other, since that is what so many people do, as evidenced by choices for abysmal candidates, and, as evidenced by so many people choosing to not vote.
But there is an element of the "right to vote" that suggests that one must exercise that right actively, and not allow laziness and/or circumstance to get in the way of their exercising the right actively.
I would always want it to be a requirement in this country that people actively be in the process, and not "driverless", ever.