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« on: June 02, 2012, 11:42:51 PM »
« edited: June 02, 2012, 11:44:28 PM by Marokai Béliqueux »

That was the ruling of the trial judge, ruling under the Wisconsin rather than the US Constitution. The Wisconsin Supreme Court refused to hear it on an expedited basis, so it will wend its way through a state appellate court, and eventually probably end up with the Wisconsin Supreme Court (which tends to be Pub friendly - the judges are elected).

Something to be so proud of.

Gotta stop "those people" from voting.

Why haven't Democrats even tried to implement automatic voter registration in a single state yet? I can think of a few states where they control 70%+ of the state legislature and the Governorship.

Because they're terrible. I mean, sure, even if they're getting unfairly disadvantaged by a lot of these measures to combat voter fraud that doesn't exist in (literally) any substantial fashion, you shouldn't expect the Democratic Party to become the champion of electoral reform. They may be getting the short end of the stick here, but make our electoral system too nice and neat and suddenly you may have more people bleeding out of the two party system that our awful system keeps as restrictive as possible so as to protect.

It really bothers me that electoral reform is an issue that nobody cares about. We're embarrassing compared to our first world competitors when it comes to elections and how we conduct them; let alone just simple voting.
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