Same-day voter registration
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States with same-day registration
As of November 2016, the following states had enacted same-day registration provisions:[2]
The following states had approved same-day registration provisions but had not yet implemented them as of November 2016:
Arguments
Proponents argue that same-day registration "increases voter turnout, eliminates arbitrary deadlines that cut off registration when voters are most interested, remedies inaccurate voter rolls, [and] greatly reduces the need for provisional balloting." Mitch Crane, a local Democratic Party official in Delaware, said, "Government works best when people have faith in their elected officials. That faith is best served through citizen participation. Citizen participation is best served by giving access to voting on Election Day to all citizens ... who choose to exercise that most basic democratic right."[4][5]
Opponents argue that same-day registration processing requirements unduly burden state and local governments. In addition, some argue that same-day registration encourages ill-informed and ill-prepared voters to participate in elections. Matthew Gagnon, a former staffer of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said, "The only people I want anywhere near a ballot box are those who have demonstrated they are actually invested enough in the process that they want to vote. That is the flaw with same-day voter registration: most of the people it serves are unengaged in the process."[6]
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Footnotes
- ↑ Pew Center on the States, "Inaccurate, Costly, and Inefficient: Evidence That America's Voter Registration System Needs an Upgrade," February 2012
- ↑ National Conference of State Legislatures, "Same Day Voter Registration," June 2, 2015
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Same-day registration in Maryland and Ohio applies only to the early voting period.
- ↑ Demos, "What Is Same Day Registration? Where Is It Available?" accessed January 21, 2016
- ↑ DelawareOnline, "Same-day registration will help democracy," June 24, 2015
- ↑ Bangor Daily News, "All parties foolish in hyperbolic voting debate," August 4, 2011
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