Same-day voter registration

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Don't move to Minnesota then.

Last election my precinct had almost 200% turnout. Almost twice as many people voted as were registered at that precinct when the voting started.

Why is this a good thing?

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Great idea.

I'd like to hear your take on this, as a resident of one of the states with SDVR.  What's your response to the proven fact that it does, in fact, result in some voter fraud?

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Wait a moment.  Were these turn-out statistics based on voter registration before that day, or including the same-day registrations?

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You didn't actually has a 122.8% turnout, then.  Those statistics are useless.

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You didn't actually has a 122.8% turnout, then.  Those statistics are useless.

Well I'd try to calculate the actual turnout except I don't have the exact numbers, simply the total votes and registered voters when the polls opened. I don't know how many of the registered voters did vote, in fact it's possible that none of the 27,147 voted and all voters registered on that day (obviously that didn't happen and I was one of the 27,147, but it is theoretically possible).

But still, our turnout was so high we ran out of ballots and had to have extras printed. That is something to be proud of.

That is true, but you can't claim that Blue Earth had the highest turnout of anywhere.  That is among an incomplete registration set.  The cynic in me says that they may not have released the information because some precincts still had over-100% turnout.  Hell, that happened here in a few places.

By the way, a lot of places had to print additional ballots - it happened here, too, and we don't even have same-day registration.

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In Canada all elections have this option, and no one complains. Just show up in the correct voting station, show two pieces of government ID with your name, address and picture on it, and you're allowed in.

Oh, but the people who favor same-day voter registration ALSO oppose voter ID! Think about that.

That's actually the law in Minnesota. You don't need ID to vote if you're already registered, you just have to say your name and they check if it's on the roster and that person hasn't voted, if so, you sign next to the roster. You don't even need ID to register, you just need for someone already registered to say that you live in the precinct. And if you register without that, you do need some proof of address, but no photo ID.

Do you realize how open to fraud that system is?  All you need is for someone to say that you live there, and they will let you register and vote?

Yes, that's all it takes. Of course lying is a felony.

Minnesota has the laxest voting laws in the world. No exaggeration. There's no other government entity in the world that allows the "vouching" system for registration. And when's the last time you heard about massive fraud and voting irregularities in Minnesota?

Wisconsin has less lax rules, and we do here of massive problems there.

Why wait until disaster strikes to reform the practices?  Trust me, as a resident of Washington, this is more than familiar to me.