Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte signed a bill that put an end to same-day voter registration and that requires some residents to provide two forms of identification before voting. And now Democrats are suing.
“This afternoon, Montana’s Republican Governor signed two voter suppression bills into law. Tonight, on behalf of the @MTDems we sued,” election attorney Marc Elias said in a tweet.
Dems began to raise a fuss after Gianforte signed House Bill 176 to end same-day voter registration, and Senate Bill 169, revising the accepted IDs that can be used for voting.
Voter access and ease has become a hot topic that has created more division among the parties, with Republican sponsors of the Montana bills “arguing that the bills aren’t about making it harder for voters, but making the state’s election system even more secure and efficient,” CNN wrote. MORE HERE
Best idea ever!!!
Little late – but better late than never.
izlamo delenda est …
Look Hoss! Get Little Joe! And shut the barn door! The horses have all run off!
Hold on to your butts…
ST. Floyd verdict coming down in 3..2..
I fail to understand the necessity for same day registration, it isn’t as if they are having surprise no notice elections that catch the unregistered people unawares at the last moment.
…seems like only ONE party keeps telling us that Black people aren’t capable of acting like adults, and it’s NOT the REPUBLICAN one…
It’s a blessing that Gianforte won. Had Cooney won, I can see him weeping hysterically about further oppression of “heroic minority voters” by evil white Montanans as he vetoed those bills. He’d have to one up his predecessor, l’il Stevie Bollocks, who vetoed a bill that would have forbidden the institution of sharia law in MT, while virtuously saying “That’s NOT who we are!”. Yeah! Whatever…
“Close late voter registration on Friday before the election”
Gosh. They have one less week to pull shenanigans? The Republics be all saved an chit!
They make you wait to buy a gun, then you can wait to register to vote.
It’s like those people weren’t warned far enough ahead that Christmas is on Dec 25th.
Or the ones that rush into Walmart the day before school starts to buy paper and are livid there’s nothing left.
Weren’t you grocery shopping there every other day for the past 2 months???