{"id":14572,"date":"2012-09-25T04:43:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T04:43:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-09-25T04:43:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T04:43:32","slug":"gov-brown-signs-sameday-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/25\/gov-brown-signs-sameday-registration\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Brown Signs Same-Day Registration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Allows more flexibility for new and moved voters<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>This is very good news for democracy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gov. Jerry Brown today signed legislation allowing residents to register to vote up until and on Election Day, though the provision will not be implemented at least until 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Voting &#8211; the sacred right of every citizen &#8211; should be simple and convenient,&#8221; the Democratic governor said in a prepared statement. &#8220;While other states try to restrict voters with new laws that burden the process, California allows voters to register online &#8211; and even on Election Day.&#8221;(<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2012\/09\/jerry-brown-signs-bill-allowing-same-day-voter-registration.html#storylink=cpy\">SacBee CapAlert<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Combined with online registration, this makes California one of the friendlies states for new voters. The Republicans cried about something they like to call &#8220;voter fraud&#8221; but <a href=\"http:\/\/latino.foxnews.com\/latino\/politics\/2012\/09\/24\/colorado-election-officials-who-vowed-war-on-voter-fraud-find-little-proof-it\/\">haven&#8217;t shown any evidence<\/a> of in any state with or without same-day registration.<\/p>\n<p>With luck we will see this implemented for the 2014 election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>Allows more flexibility for new and moved voters<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>This is very good news for democracy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gov. Jerry Brown today signed legislation allowing residents to register to vote up until and on Election Day, though the provision will not be implemented at least until 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Voting &#8211; the sacred right of every citizen &#8211; should be simple and convenient,&#8221; the Democratic governor said in a prepared statement. &#8220;While other states try to restrict voters with new laws that burden the process, California allows voters to register online &#8211; and even on Election Day.&#8221;(<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2012\/09\/jerry-brown-signs-bill-allowing-same-day-voter-registration.html#storylink=cpy\">SacBee CapAlert<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Combined with online registration, this makes California one of the friendlies states for new voters. The Republicans cried about something they like to call &#8220;voter fraud&#8221; but <a href=\"http:\/\/latino.foxnews.com\/latino\/politics\/2012\/09\/24\/colorado-election-officials-who-vowed-war-on-voter-fraud-find-little-proof-it\/\">haven&#8217;t shown any evidence<\/a> of in any state with or without same-day registration.<\/p>\n<p>With luck we will see this implemented for the 2014 election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[5145,136],"class_list":["post-14572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-5145","tag-136"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3N2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}