The committee that is fighting against LR-126 (the Tea Party ballot measure to repeal election day registration) has put out a new video. You can watch it here. Featured are Montana voters, including a military veteran and native American, as well as the Secretary of State Linda McCulloch. LR 126 is an odious measure, and all you need to know about it is that very few Republicans have the courage to support it publicly right now. In case you haven’t noticed, Steve Daines and Ryan Zinke have run for cover and will not even say where they stand. They both do support it, we know, because it is designed to suppress democratic turnout. Statistics show that people who register on voting day tend to be more Democrat than Republican. In 2013, all of the Republicans in the legislature voted to send this measure to the ballot, while all of the Democrats voted against it. If you think you are registered and you go to vote on election day, only to find out that there was a clerical error and your registration was never processed, election day registration is the only chance you have. That’s why both Democrats and Republicans supported the law creating the system in 2006. Unfortunately, Republicans were later advised by their leaders in Washington that they should reverse course and work to abolish it, because it might result in voters voting who are not Republicans. Another civics lesson from the GOP.
Posted on: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 07:07:26 +0000
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