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CousinIT

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Fri Nov 18, 2016, 09:59 PM Nov 2016

Republican Governors are already doing everything they can to make it harder to vote next election

After spending much of the fall fighting to keep voting restrictions in place, some Republican governors are getting a head start for the next go around.

New Hampshire Governor-elect Chris Sununu said in an interview with New Hampshire Public Radio that he would like to eliminate the state’s practice of same-day voting registration.

The new governor, son of former senator and New Hampshire Governor John H. Sununu, wasn’t entirely clear about why he wanted to get rid of the practice.

“We just need our laws tighter. It’s not about fraud and a rigged system, that nonsense. It’s really just about making sure that our rules are clear, that they’re unambiguous, and that people can believe that as a full-time resident of the state of New Hampshire, your vote isn’t being watered down by someone who’s drive-thru voting, drive-by voting,” Sununu told NHPR. “We just need to modernize the system.”

It’s interesting that Sununu thinks getting rid of same-day voting is a modernization when in most states its addition is considered an innovation.


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