What do you know about Election Day Registration?

[wildeyed]

I have become extremely interested in the subject after spending way too may hours with a clipboard in the Kmart parking lot on hot summer days trying to get people registered to vote, only to find out later that hardly any of the newly registered made it to the polls.

With Election Day Registration, I can do my registration drives and GOTV at the same time. Much more efficient, plus the people who historically don't turn out at the polls, young people, people who move around a lot, the homeless are better represented.

There is some worry that Election Day Registartion would increase voter fraud, but that hasn't been the case in the states that have adopted the system.

We have a bill pending here in NC that I have been working a little bit to promote. Don't think it will pass this year. We would need almost every single Demo vote to pass it, and there are a few stick-in-the-muds who are not on board.

I think that Election Day could be the first step to reforming the electoral process. I am a Democrat, but I do think that the two party system is killing us in this country. Election Day gives third party candidates a better shot. It gives us in the grassroots a formidable tool to GOTV with, and I think it make the candidates more accountable to the people since more of them will be voting. States with Election Day Registration have something like and extra 10% turnout on election day.

Here is a link with more info. http://www.demos-usa.org/page18.cfm

Any other thoughts on this subject?