[EL] Election Day Registration brief

[Rob Richie]

Women's suffrage provides another good example. Misty-eyed Progressive Era
leaders doubled the potential electorate without seemingly a care in the
world about its impact on overworked campaign consultants and election
officials.

Where will this all end? Australia with 95 percent turnout and universal
use of ranked choice ballots? There is a reason so much of it is desert.
Rob
On Mar 12, 2013 6:28 PM, "Larry Levine" <larrylevine at earthlink.net> wrote:

> No. I wasn't aware of that. But what a wide open invitation to mischief
> that
> is. Also, it doesn't change a thing about my points regarding the cost of
> campaigning. Reformers keep reforming and the hole gets deeper. Campaign to
> everyone, not just registered voters. And by the way, spend less to do it.
> Larry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Askin [mailto:faskin at kinoy.rutgers.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 3:22 PM
> To: larrylevine at earthlink.net; 'Rick Hasen'; law-election at uci.edu;
> 'Legislation Listserv'
> Subject: RE: [EL] Election Day Registration brief
>
> I am not sure if you are aware that most of the EDR states do not even use
> provisional ballots - except for those who cannot show proper ID.
> Most let EDR voters vote on the machine and use the threat of criminal
> prosecution to guard against ineligible voters.  FRANK
>
>
>
>
> Prof. Frank Askin
> Distinguished Professor of Law       and Director
> Constitutional Litigation Clinic
> Rutgers Law School/Newark
> (973) 353-5687>>> "Larry Levine" <larrylevine at earthlink.net> 3/12/2013
> 6:01 PM >>>
> Unintended consequences department: open up election day registration, thus
> increasing the pool of potential voters with whom a campaign must
> communicate (think legislative districts, not big statewide or national TV
> type campaigns), thus increasing the cost of campaigning (more doors upon
> which to knock, more households to which mail must be sent), and at the
> same
> time keep imposing spending limits on campaigns so the ability to
> communicate repeatedly with voters narrows. Election day registration also
> inflates the number of provisional ballots that must be hand inspected and
> verified before counting after the election. That could greatly delay
> certification of the election and in some cases bump up against statutory
> deadlines, including possibly the electoral college. Not very likely?
> Until
> it happens.
> Larry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu
> [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Frank
> Askin
> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 2:05 PM
> To: Rick Hasen; law-election at uci.edu; Legislation Listserv
> Subject: [EL] Election Day Registration brief
>
> Below is the URL for a 92-page brief in support of summary Judgment filed
> last week in the case of Rutgers University Student Association (RUSA), et.
> al.  v. Middlesex County Board of Elections, challenging New Jersey's
> advance registration requirement under the New Jersey Constitution as an
> undue and no longer necessary burden on the right to vote. FRANK
>
> https://law.newark.rutgers.edu/files/SummaryMotionBrief3.5.13.pdf
>
>
> Prof. Frank Askin
> Distinguished Professor of Law       and Director
> Constitutional Litigation Clinic
> Rutgers Law School/Newark
> (973) 353-5687
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