Chris Christie Nixes 1.6 Million New Voters by Vetoing Democracy Act

[yuiyoshida]

Color America surprised: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie today vetoed legislation, the Democracy Act, that would have added 1.6 million voters through automatic voter registration. The Times of Trenton Editorial Board called the Democracy Act, which was passed by the State Senate at the end of June, “a light in the darkness,” an overhaul which “would usher in a new day in New Jersey, ensuring a more robust democracy by broadening access to the polls.”

Well. We can’t have that: No Republican likes to hear there will be more voters, because more voters means more votes against.

Christie understands that as well as anyone, and so, employing typically sordid Repubican logic, he said, as his excuse back in June, “In New Jersey, we have early voting that are available to people. I don’t want to expand it and increase the opportunities for fraud.”

Right. Because there is virtually no fraud now, if you add voters, you will suddenly become inundated with fraud. Given how fraudulent Christie has already been proven to be (e.g. Bridgegate), this sort of comment should raise some eyebrows. Does he seriously expect anyone to believe him?

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/11/09/chris-christie-vetoing-democracy-act.html

[DetlefK]

1. Voting in the US is ridiculous.

I don't get why voting is such a hassle in the US. In Germany, voting is always on Sundays, from 8am to 6pm. I get there, hand in the election-notification I got in the mail, get the paper-ballot and pick a booth. It's all smoooooooth.
German election law EXPLICITLY states that anybody can witness the counting of the votes as long as you don't interfere.
The final results are in by 8pm.

In the US they make you vote on a workday and can't even decide what kind of ID they need from you. And THEN you get to vote on a one-armed bandit.