Should all states have Election Day Registration?

Question

So far 6 states Idaho, Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Wisconsin and Wyoming have access to the wide-reaching benefits of EDR.

Those benefits are:
1) Higher voter turnout at elections. The nation average is 5 out of 10 people vote. In states with ERD the turnout is much higher 7 out of 10 registered voters vote.
2) More people preregister. Since there is a larger turnout in past elections, more eligible voters are already registered on election day.
3) Registration mistakes by public agencies can be worked out on election day. No one who should be registered but isn't due to mistakes by public agencies are turned away.
4) Far more likely to get young voters to vote.
5) No evidence of increased fraud in any state that has election day registration.

What do you think? Should all states have election day registration?

Answer 1

My concern remains - what keeps someone from going poll-to-poll and "registering" several times? I know my polling places don't have a computer link-up to a central database. Heck - they barely got the touch-screens working.

This might not be happening right now, but can we guarantee it won't happen?

But my family is from Louisiana - if you want election fraud, we can give you a Doctoral Dissertation on the subject.

Answer 2

I'll disagree with your #5. It DOES increase the possibility of voter fraud.

99% of all voter problems start with voters. They wait till the last minute to register to vote and then they don't know where to vote. And then they blame the system.

How hard is it to register AND check long before you can vote to make sure you ARE reistered AND find out where you are supposed to vote AND when you can vote?

EDR is like abortions. Neither SHOULD be needed if the proper preparations are done.

I'll question you statement the 7 of 10 voters vote where the EDR exists. A 40% increase in voters seems odd just because of EDR.

And IF as #2 states more people are preregistered why do you need EDR?

#3 The mistakes by public agencies should have been found out BEFORE election day. You must be a Democrat*LOL* You Blame the government and not the individual for EVERYTHING.

Answer 3

I live in MN where they have EDR. I think it is a very good system. They have rules in place so people can't go from poll to poll and voting multiple times. If you do register on election day, you need a photo ID (driver's license) or two forms of ID and a recent utility bill with your name and current address on it.

Answer 4

considering officers at polling places do no longer take photos of folk as they arrive in to vote, and that they do no longer make photocopies of evidence of identity, that is largely impossible to tutor voter fraud after the actuality. yet that does no longer advise that voter fraud is nonexistent. If banks had no cameras, and left all their money mendacity around on the counter, it may be impossible to tutor financial company robberies.

Answer 5

i think it could work for the state of Georgia we have a complicated mess up system here right now . it only a plot to suppress the voter rights