In some states, you’re allowed to register to vote and vote on the same day.
Yet you still have to wait 10 days after buying a gun to receive it.
When Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) announced he would no longer support his own plan to do away with same day voter registration in Wisconsin, he struck a blow to voter suppression and may have saved millions of taxpayer dollars in the process.
A new report from the Government Accountability Board suggests that ending the state’s same day voter registration program, which allows eligible voters to register to vote at the polling station on election day, would cost several state agencies a combined $14.5 million.
So Gov. Walker not only ends same-day registration but also saves money.
Of course, no good deed goes unpunished if Adam Peck has his way:
After the GAB’s initial report in December, when the projected cost of ending ending same day registration was a third of the latest estimates, Gov. Walker told reporters that he would stop his pursuit to end the program, citing the cost. But other Republican legislators in the state may still opt to pursue a bill to strip away same day registration, and Walker has not signaled that he would veto a potential bill. Nationwide, Republicans have waged war on voter rights in the last several years, supporting discriminatory voter ID laws while simultaneously seeking to end early voting and same day registration with little regard for the costs, both financial and otherwise.
Except that he just said he won’t pursue ending same day registrations, due to the costs.
Showing an ID is not discriminatory. Ending same-day registration is not discriminatory.
Like saving money, it’s all common sense. Something that the critics of this move seem to seriously lack.
