Ya learn somethin' new everyday...

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Greensboro, NC

P o e t i q R e i g n Greensboro, NC

i went to this Voter Information Town Hall meeting on campus 2 dayz ago...& one of the females in charge mentioned this fact to us.... (i just got around right now to looking it up...so here it is in print off of the State Action.org website)

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Six states have enacted legislation allowing voters to register on Election Day. Idaho, Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, and Wyoming allow eligible citizens to register to vote and cast a ballot on Election Day.5 These states also allow voters whose names were improperly excluded from, or never added to, the rolls to correct the errors and vote on the same day.

so that means the following states allows for people not already registered to vote to do so on Election Day... how do ya'll feel about this? do you think it's right? wrong? indifferent towards it? you think if a few states have this, all should to make it fair? Check this out...

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States using Election Day registration have significantly higher voter turnout than the national average. In 2000, when nationwide voter turnout totaled 59 percent, the six Election Day registration states had a combined turnout of 68 percent, with Maine boasting the highest voter turnout in the nation.6 Researchers estimate that eliminating voter registration deadlines and implementing Election Day registration would produce an average seven percent rise in voter turnout.7 In fact, according to a May 2001 poll, 64 percent of nonvoters said that Election Day registration would make them more likely to vote.8

( http://www.cfpa.org/issues/voterregistration/index.cfm ) She also told us that there is one state where you don't even have to be registered to vote...you just come in on the day of and do so. I haven't found that just yet.

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