Used to be, much voter fraud was prevented by registration. On election day, they asked your name and looked you up on the voter registration list. If your name was on the list, you got to vote. Fairly airtight. Then in New Hampshire we put in same day registration, show up at the polls on election day, and vote whether you are on the list or not. The college kids at Dartmouth, UNH, and even humble Plymouth State loved it, didn't matter if you were an out of state student, you get to vote in NH elections. The real citizens of Hanover, Plymouth and Durham are completely swamped by hordes of college students on election day.
So now we are wrangling over various voter ID requirements.
So I asked a couple of local politicos about the chance of just repealing same day registration. They both said, "No can do, Federal law requires same day registration."
Is that right? Anyone know for sure?
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