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posted by n1 on Sunday November 20 2016, @11:21AM   Printer-friendly
from the right-to-vote dept.

The Daily Northwestern reports

The Illinois Senate voted 38-18 on [November 16] to override Gov. Bruce Rauner's veto of an automatic voter registration bill.

The bill [...] would automatically register voters who are seeking a new or updated license, or who are seeking other services from state departments such as Human Services or Healthcare and Family Services.

[...]The only two things a citizen should need to vote is being 18 years old and a citizen.

[...]The bill received bipartisan support when it passed through the House by a vote of 86-30 and the Senate with a vote of 42-16.

[...]To fully override Rauner's veto, the Illinois House will also have to vote to override, but it will not back in session until Nov. 29.

More information on Automatic Voter Registration can be found here.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 20 2016, @08:31PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 20 2016, @08:31PM (#430057)

    This. Those people who -claim- that there are vast amounts of voter fraud could easily prove their point with a list of names of perps.
    Without the list, this is just blowing smoke.

    It doesn't happen in any significant numbers.
    This fraudulent act would be a FELONY.
    The risk is simply not worth the gain.
    Those perps would be arrested and convicted and jailed.
    If it was happening, the prisons would be full of those folks.
    The rate at which it happens is WAY down in the noise.

    Interestingly, when it **is** attempted, it's Republicans who are doing it (and they are NOT arrested).
    http://www.google.com/search?q=voter.fraud+intitle:Gingrich+11100+1500 [google.com]
    http://www.google.com/search?q=voter.fraud+Ann.Coulter+Palm.Beach [google.com]
    http://www.google.com/search?q=voter.fraud+Mitt.Romney+sold+home [google.com]
    http://www.google.com/search?q=voter.fraud+Charlie.White [google.com]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 20 2016, @09:49PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 20 2016, @09:49PM (#430119)

    Not a Democrat or Republican, but I can see how thin this logic is. Voter fraud largely isn't looked for, so of course there's not many stories about it. Taking my local county as example, we're stuck with those horrendous eSlate voting machines. Pure electronic, no paper trail at all. The votes are stored in an Access database with no logging and essentially no authentication. Literally any insider can change the vote totals without any traces, leaving statistical analysis of the results as the only possible method of catching fraud. Which is never done. Under the circumstances, of course no fraud is found.

    Sorry, but you need to learn that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 20 2016, @10:32PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 20 2016, @10:32PM (#430156)

      I agree with your thesis but your conclusion is faulty:
      If they're going to make the charge, they need to show the evidence.

      I'm an enthusiast of this guy's work Brad Friedman [google.com]
      Bev Harris of BlackBoxVoting deserves a shout-out here too.

      In California, if you request a paper ballot[1], they have to give you one.
      I thought this was a thing nationwide.

      [1] They're still counted via a scanning machine, however.

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