Scott Walker: End same-day voter registration

[PsychoViking]

It appears that Republicans want to double down on stopping people from voting.

http://www.startribune.com/local/180008801.html?refer=y

MADISON, Wis. - Gov. Scott Walker says he thinks that it would "much better" if Wisconsin did not have same-day voter registration.

Walker made the comments during a speech Friday night in California.

Walker's spokesman Cullen Werwie had nothing to add Monday to what Walker said.

Walker says in the speech that "It would be much better if registration was done in advance of Election Day, easier for our clerks to handle that."

Incoming Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has supported doing away with same-day voter registration in the past and sponsored a bill to do that when Democrat Jim Doyle was governor.

Vos said Monday he was open to the idea, but he did not know of anyone who planned to propose it and he had not spoken with Walker about it.

[PatsFan2003]

Maybe they should just fix their party... Unless they can't win any other way.

[Payton34]

Honestly I really wouldn't have a problem with this if they'd actually do it well before elections. No changing the rules mid-stream...

[Fandango]

They just keep searching for ways to depress voter turnout. How can that be considered a good thing?

[flyerhawk]

I suspect that we will see a number of voter suppression efforts in many states in the next few years. The white establishment isn't going to take their diminished stature lying down.

[PatsFan2003]

Voter ID laws are fine if legal and done with plenty of time to do it right but you get the idea that many Republicans think THIS is why they lost the last election.

[Marley]

Heh, Walker using the "it would be easier for our clerks to handle" line. Way to make excuses.

[Fandango]

Heh, Walker using the "it would be easier for our clerks to handle" line. Way to make excuses.

Yeah that is a laugh, hard to imagine that he said that with a straight face.

[flyerhawk]

Voter ID laws are fine if legal and done with plenty of time to do it right but you get the idea that many Republicans think THIS is why they lost the last election.

Well for most of our history the establishment has enjoyed very favorable voting laws, so in a way this IS why they lost the election.