CPAC 'GOP minority outreach' panel goes as well as you'd expect

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Okay. I agree the penalties are excessive, but what is so damned difficult about turning in the forms the day (or even the day after) they were filled out? Indeed, why wouldn't they have been doing that already?

Ummm... had you heard of these registrations being a problem?  No?  They why the need for a bunch of new laws?

Here's what Republicans said when their was actual poison flowing freely through the drinking water of their constituents courtesy of big business...

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http://www.salon.com/2014/01/14/boehners_response_to_west_virginias_chemical_spill_we_have_enough_regulations/

So one thing has no reported problems and they want to regulate the hell out of it and turn people into felons.  And there is something else that is poisoning people and there is 100% no reason for any new laws.  Make sense to you?

I love this...

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/30/us/judge-to-block-changes-in-florida-voter-registration.html?_r=0

So if you do voter registration on a college campus on a Friday night and turn in  the forms first thing Monday morning when the office opens... congratulations you are a felon!  Seems reasonable.

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So don't do the drive on Friday. You can't adjust your schedule to show up on another day or do the drive on a different day? There aren't exceptions for people registering to vote on Friday that you can turn the papers in on a Monday?

A lot of things like music festivals have voter registration drives.

In an allegedly free society why can't Rock the Vote set up a booth on a Friday evening at a music festival?  What kind of country do you want to live in?

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I'm going to sound like a Moderate Hero/Serious Person/TED Talks Shill, but isn't this one of those situations where "innovation" and "harnessing the power of technology" and "Big Data" and all those buzzwords come into play?

What if we could all simply register to vote online? What if workers at a voter drive could do something as simple as swiping your driver's license and using a smartphone/tablet app to pull up your info, do an instant verification and have you registered and then you'd get an email within a few minutes confirming you're registered, with the option to print out your voter card?

Millions of people, including the poor and elderly, lack such technological tools.

Democracy may have to be low-tech to succeed.

Well voter registration people can go door to door with cellular tablets and register people.

But I think the main point is Florida didn't have a problem with third party people using pencil and paper and turning in the registrations a week latter... or even two weeks later.  I mean who really cares?  Obviously there is no point to this law other than to discourage young people and minorities from voting.

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http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/11/13/1184871/florida-lawmakers-gop-packed-ballot-with-unnecessary-initiatives-to-lengthen-lines-and-suppress-votes/

So let's stop pretending that voter registration laws need to be overhauled and "fixed."  It's just an attempt by Republicans to suppress voter participation.