Mr. Shapiro's introduction of automatic voter registration last year drew condemnation from Republicans and former President Donald Trump and threats of litigation.
At the time, some two dozen states already had authorized a version of automatic voter registration and no court challenge in Pennsylvania has emerged.
Dozens of state Republican lawmakers are demanding the Shapiro administration do more to ensure that noncitizens are not registered to vote and curtail automatic voter registration functions strictly to transactions involving driver licensing.
Last year's introduction of automatic voter registration means that, under the new format, prompts on computer screens in driver's license centers take the user to a template to register to vote.
The voter who cast the contested ballot had testified before a lower court that he believed changing his vehicle registration address - not his driver's license - had triggered a change in his voter registration address.
In a letter on Friday, 63 House Republicans asked Mr. Shapiro to restrict automatic voter registration to interactions only involving someone getting or updating a driver's license or a state photo identification card.
In a statement, Mr. Shapiro's office said automatic voter registration is separate from the process to change a vehicle registration address.
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