Noted via Best of the Web:
An Arvada [Colorado] man filed suit in federal court challenging the constitutionality of Colorado’s voter registration law after he missed the deadline for registering and learned he is ineligible to vote Nov. 5.
Gee, who would possibly think this was a major problem? Oh, wait:
Proponents of Amendment 30, which would allow residents to register and vote on election day, paid James Annibella’s $150 filing fee in U.S. District Court in Denver on Thursday.
With all of the chances you get to register, what with motor-voter and all, how did this moron possibly miss the deadline?
“I am denied my right to vote because of some snafu in the law,” Annibella said Thursday outside the court during a news conference by Yes On 30.
No, you aren’t, sir. You are denied your right to vote because of a snafu in your idiotic life called “I don’t have a clue”.
“I couldn’t believe it. It’s very frustrating.”
I’m sure it is quite frustrating to be a moron, but the law is the law.
Annibella became ineligible to vote after he moved a year ago from Denver to Arvada and failed to register under his new address before the deadline, which is 29 days before the election.
Residents can still register if they swear they did not know of the deadline, said civil rights lawyer David Lane, who donated his services to file the suit.
Annibella said he knew of the deadline but has been working 12 hours a day as a financial consultant and didn’t have time to register.
Good God, man! When you pick up the change of address forms at the post office, they have a mail-in change of registration form right in the package! (I know…I’ve used it!) How much time could that possibly take you? In the privacy of your own home, even, and I think it’s postage-paid.
What we have here is a failure of civic virtue. If you wanted to vote, you should have registered like everyone else.
Lane said Colorado’s registration law violates Annibella’s constitutional rights.
No, but his suit violates mine.
Dave Minshall, spokesman for Yes On 30, said 40 percent of people move between elections, and many, like Annibella, are not eligible to vote because they fail to register under their new address.
My heart bleeds. My wife didn’t get to vote in our primary in May because she’d never changed her registration (even after living here for nearly two years). She accepted the responsibility and sent in a registration change, and now she’ll be able to vote next month.
“It’s unfair to keep some voters from voting because they didn’t change their address by an outdated deadline,” Minshall said.
What’s outdated about it? It gives the election officials time to make sure that they have proper records at the polls on election day.
Six states that offer election-day registration have seen an increase in voter turnouts, he said.
And how much increase in vote fraud goes along with that?
Davidson and dozens of county clerks across the state oppose election-day registration because they say it would be costly to implement and invite voter fraud.
Well, duh. I’m not concerned about the cost as much as I am about the fraud aspect.
This suit needs to be dismissed out of hand, and with extreme predjudice. Frankly it smells like a big fat Democratic setup.