On September 8, the Maine Secretary of State announced that the referendum petition on election-day registration has enough valid signatures, so voters will decide in November 2012 whether to retain election-day voter registration. See this story.
The Maine legislature repealed election-day registration this year, but the repeal cannot take effect until after the November 2012 vote. No state with election-day registration has ever repealed it, and polls suggest that the idea enjoys popular support.
Up here in Maine the Republican regime is doing their best to bring us back to the 19th century. Under the leadership of the elected-by-a-37%-plurality Republican thug LaPage, the Maine legislature has promoted, among other things, the rollback of child labor laws, abandonment of rural Mainers’ health care, further increases in health insurance rates in a state where only wealthy people can afford to insure themselves, and…wait for it…the hideous, economy-killing, return deposit on bottles and cans.
In other words – screw you, screw your kids, screw the environment you live in – all that matters to Lapage and his Republican henchmen is what’s good for “bidness.” Voting rights? They don’t help business, so screw that, too.
Ah, breathe in the smell of sweet, sweet liberty as you nestle into the arms of fascism.
How many voters from adjacent States can move into wonderful Maine on election day and vote ???
Who cares whether or not a Voter has ANY knowledge of state/local laws by being a resident for X days before an election ???
What is in the brains of the leftwing usual suspects ??? — other than LOOTING each regime treasury (for *good* purposes, of course) ???
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The answer to your first question is “as many as happen to establish residence in Maine by election day.”
The answer to your second question is “No one that I’m aware of. I’ve voted dozens of times and I’ve never been given a test, other than whether I can sign my name.”
The answer to your third question is “What are your grammar?”
Imagine my electoral proposal with a Governor’s race.
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Wha?