In an effort to gain more support for Gov. Jerry Brown’s November tax initiative, the UC Student Association is pushing for student support of Assembly Bill 1436, which will allow election-day voter registration in California.
Under existing law, a voter may not vote in an election unless he or she has registered on or before 15 days prior to the election. AB 1436 would establish conditional registration through which a person would be permitted to register to vote after the 15th day before an election or on election day, and cast his or her vote to be counted if the conditional voter registration is approved.
The bill would also require county election officials to offer conditional voter registration and provisional voting at voting offices.
“AB 1436 is very important because it has the potential to increase the number of students who will have the opportunity to vote,” said UCSA Organizing and Communications Director Darius Kemp. “Many students move around a lot and either don’t fully know their address or where they’re staying at, so being able to register on the exact day of the election will increase their constitutional right to vote.”
Many feel this particular election is especially important for students because of Brown’s tax initiative, Proposition 30, which will guarantee that the state government buy out state public college tuition, abating the threat of serious tuition hikes. If the proposition fails, the university will receive a series of budget cuts that could necessitate a 20.3 percent midyear tuition increase.
“Students have a lot of their own skin in the game,” Kemp said. “If it passes, it will lay down the groundwork for state funding of education, which will benefit students.”
Assemblyman Mike Feuer, D-Los Angeles, is sponsoring the bill and Senator Christine Kehoe, D-San Diego, is primarily supporting this bill by setting up both a website and a phone line for people to express their support in an effort to move the bill out of the state Senate Appropriations Committee. The California College Democrats have also rallied behind the bill.
“As states throughout the country make it harder, rather than easier to vote, this bill reaffirms California’s commitment to true participatory democracy,” Feuer said in a press release. “Same day voter registration will greatly expand young people’s access to and exercise of the franchise, and I’m glad to see the California College Democrats are using social media to help get this bill over the finish line.”
According to a June 15 state Senate Committee on Elections and Constitutional Amendments bill analysis, no organization has yet to express opposition to the bill.
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“Many students move around a lot and either don’t fully know their address or where they’re staying at, so being able to register on the exact day of the election will increase their constitutional right to vote.”
What a world-class excuse!
I have no problem supporting registration right up to the time you vote. However, I would add a rider to the bill that would require better proof of citizenship. Current registration requirements make it really easy for non citizens to register. Of course, I don’t expect better results from voters who can register at the last minute, because those voters really don’t care enough to know much about the ballot issues. Students who really don’t know where they will be on election day should just vote by mail.
if a non-citizen voted, it’d be SUPER easy to track them down and deport them. none of them are stupid enough to try to vote and risk that.
It isn’t easy at all to track down someone and deport them based on voting. Your vote isn’t tied into some big brother computer that keeps perfect records of everyone and discovers fraudulent votes.
UCSA supports voter fraud. Goal is to help those illegals cast fraudulent votes to support the democrats.
Good luck trying to register without legal status.
It’s quite easy. Illegal aliens do it all the time to get the voter cards, which can then be used on employment form I-9 to prove they can legally work. California’s registration process is so simple to fool I wonder why more fraudulent voting is not reported. Here is a link to the form for people who are curious:
https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/register-to-vote/app-pdf/english-blank.pdf
Basically, it asks for your California driver’s license number or the last 4 digits of your social security number. If you MAKE UP 4 DIGITS nobody will check, and even if they check, no one has ever gone to jail for voter fraud after filling out these forms. Then you forge a signature and you’re ready to vote! Thanks to Obama and Eric Holder voter fraud can’t even be controlled by local governments, not that Berkeley would want to, since Berkeley pretty much treats illegal aliens as local folk heroes anyways. Only Arizona and Kansas actually ask for proof of citizenship.
Here is a longer article describing how illegal aliens are already voting in America:
http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com/index.php?article=691
Ugh, this unethical behavior is a result of the US not consistently enforcing our laws. This is one more sign the US is moving towards a Third World country.
HELLO COLLEGUES DEAR STUDENTS AT UCB PLEASE I CANNOT VOTE MY VOT NAD CALIFORNIANS SHOULD HELP TO CONSCIOUSLY ON DEMOCRATIC OBAMMMA TO CONTINUE HIS WORK YOU WONT REGRET IT . THAKS HEAR FROM ME SOON. SIGNED AS YUNG HWA TAO AND LET I T BE FROM THE BEATLES. SAVE AMERICA FROM ALUMNII OF CAL POLY POMONA CLASS 73 now retired but still doing homework.
Seriously? You’re a college graduate?
Because only legal voters register 15 days in advance, and only illegals register after that?
If you have so little interest or concern about an election that you don’t even bother to register in advance, you probably haven’t done a lick of homework to research the issues either… and should not be voting in the first place. This is yet another attempt to round up last-minute voters by ethically questionable means.