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Brenden Timpe

Brenden Timpe is a blogger at PolicyShop.

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A Budgetary Case for Same Day Registration

Brenden TimpeFeb 26, 2013
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A new report from a Wisconsin state agency makes clear that Same Day Registration is not just a low-cost way to make voting more accessible. It can even be a budget-saver.

The report from the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board dealt a blow to advocates of repealing the state’s Same Day Registration policy. It pegged the cost of such a change as high as $14.5 million. Some of the costs are one-time expenditures, but many will be ongoing.

The President's Call for Election Reform

Brenden TimpeFeb 13, 2013
Whitehouse.gov

President Obama’s State of the Union address included an important call to fix the long lines and other problems that plagued voters in 2012. 

The president was near the end of his speech when he brought up the waiting times that stretched as long as six hours in some places and led an estimated 200,000 Florida voters to give up and go home. He rightly cast the issue as one of protecting Americans’ most fundamental rights: