How Would Voter ID Bill Affect Election Day Registration?

With plenty of discussion at the legislature this year surrounding a proposal to at the polls, MinnPost decided to analyze how the proposed constitutional amendment would affect Election Day registration.

MinnPost reports:

Opponents of the amendment say it will make Election Day registration impractical, and posit that a higher percentage of voters who register on Election Day tend to vote Democrat. But Voter ID supporters, including most GOP lawmakers, say the measure is critical to maintaining the state’s election integrity. They also dismiss concerns over disenfranchisement.

According to our analysis, in precincts with greater than 40 percent same-day registrations, 92 percent of those precincts gave a majority to the DFL in the 2008 presidential race; 8 percent of the precincts went to the GOP. In the 2008 state legislative race, 92 percent of the high-EDR precincts went Democratic, 5 percent went Republican.

The bill is up for debate today in the House's Goverment Operations and Elections Committee. St. Louis Park Rep. Steve Simon (DFL-District 44A) is on that committee, and we'll have a livestream of the 10:15 a.m. hearing.