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Huuum? Just when is fraud....fraud? Hey let's ask the AG office for an opinion. Hang tough Heather these turkeys are having to show their "real" selves to steal this one.
They have same-day registration in other states. Look at Minnesota or New Hampshire.
I think that making it easier for more people to vote can only help our Democracy. The more people who vote, the stronger our Democracy is. Even though the trend in politics has been to suppress the vote lately, I think that having more people vote can only help.
I have worked the polls for 6 years and presiding judge this year. The problem with paper ballots is not the system but with the management. Am angry that there is no audit of each machine but a challenge would be more valid that with electronic machines with no paper trail. Electronic machines would be ok only if there was a printed receipt before the vote was recorded and that receipt protected by a locked ballot box. With little real leadership for SOS and expecting less with new SOS, I am very concerned about future elections. Where would we be if the Madrid-Wilson race was the presidential race. You would have to move the counting to a bomb shelter on Sandia.
I would argue that making it easier to vote would not improve anything. People with opinions based on any investment at all, are already able to vote.
Same day registration would make it easier only for those with no investment who are voting based on opinions which are not their own.
Voter registration is now cut off 30 days before the election to give the Clerk's office time to check the records and add or change the person's records. For the same reason, same-day voter registration requires an electronic connection to the Clerk's office. We don't have that on election day, but we do have it during early voting. It would make more sense to let people register during early voting than on election day. Besides, if they aren't registered, they may not know where to go on election day. I don't know why that isn't being considered.
My mom thinks that we should just do the purple ink on your finger thing. 
But still, a person would have to come up with proof of residency to show that they were voting in the appropriate local races.
Seriously, our voting went smoothly and well, at least from the voter's perspective on election day at my precinct. I still don't like not having a confirmation that my ballot was read correctly as I stuck it in that thing that looked like an industrial paper shredder. I *liked* the touch-screen voting last time. Electronic voting with a printed confirmation that could be checked by the voter before putting it into a locked box would be much nicer and the results and counting would be nearly instant.
Plus, I think we're taking this "no poll tax" thing to absurd levels... a little bit of effort is *not* going to destroy democracy. A little bit of effort, registering ahead of time, obtaining a voter ID, etc., is *not* a poll tax. Arguing that a particular *group* is disenfranchised is basically saying that members of that group are generally incompetent and incapable of civic responsibility.
*Individuals* may be excluded, but failing to make any preparations at all ought to be a good clue that the voter doesn't value their vote, so why should we?
Or we could just fill in the dots like Bubbles on Power Puff Girls, in patterns like flowers or pretty bunnies... it would be every bit as meaningful.
Common Cause administered a national toll free hotline on Election Day (I commented about this matter last week). It was interesting to hear about all of the problems with voting machines in states like Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania. Not to mention this recent decision from Sarasota County, FL: http://www.commoncause.org/site/...MQIwG&
b=2253343.
In states that use Election Day Registration, the responsibility for registering people actually shifts from third-party registrants to trained poll workers and election professionals. The outcome of this is more accurate registration lists (a pretty good thing). People who register on Election Day must affirm age, citizenship status and residence, effectively creating a de fact affidavit, which actually develops a paper trail in the event of a legitimate allegation of voter fraud. Finally, I believe nobody has the right to make determinations about who may and who may not vote, based upon an arbitrary registration deadline. People get engaged in the political process, and indeed elections at different points. To somehow suggest that one must be engaged and “prepared” to vote can be a pretty slippery slope.
We are taking up the cause to have a verifiable paper trail for electronic voting in Texas. We are otherwise satisfied with electronic voting. We merely want to provide a paper backup.
Paper ballots are counted on electronic machines. How does that differ from the counting on electronic machines????
"Paper ballots are counted on electronic machines. How does that differ from the counting on electronic machines????"
Because they can still be handcounted afterwards.
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