Did you vote? How busy was the polling place?

[minionofmidas]

Wikipedia is your friend, Angus. Although this one's badly written and probably error riddled:

"ten states have some form of Election Day voter registration: Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Wyoming and Washington DC. Montana began Election Day voter registration in 2006, North Carolina in 2007, and Iowa in 2008. Connecticut also has Election Day registration, but only for presidential elections. (North Dakota, unique among the states, has no voter registration requirement at all.)

Newly popular early voting programs sometimes work in concert with Election Day registration. While not allowing registration on Election Day itself (the last day to vote), the states of Ohio and North Carolina offer a period where voters can register and then early vote."

I thought Iowa always had same-day registration? Also, according to the lower para. NC doesn't belong in the list in the upper para. The point though was merely that same day reg is common across the entire Upper Midwest / Mountain Northwest area. Apart from Michigan.

[minionofmidas]

Certainly they must be keeping some kind of list of who has voted, even if it's destroyed at the end of the day? Oughtn't that be kind of difficult without a register of voters known to reside in the precinct?