Remember in my last post on election administration, when I suggested that attitudes need to change? Here's exhibit A:

Making election day a weekend day (presumably a Saturday, since there would certainly be a fuss if it were moved to a Sunday) might not have that much of an effect on total turnout.

And anyway, as Bryan Caplan points out, sometimes having fewer people vote isn’t such a bad thing.  (Bolding is mine) 

Peter Suderman is a smart conservative, not part of the Limbaugh-Malkin axis of crazy.  And this isn't a piece that he spent a lot of thought on, especially the last sentence--it's a "here's an idea, I'll just sort of throw it out there" post.  But look what it reveals.  Even if Saturday voting would lead to higher turnout, Suderman says, no big deal--after all, who really cares about whether or not people can vote? Voter suppression--albeit indirectly, through methods like making voting more inconvenient--is intellectually justifiable on the right.  It's bad enough to have intelligent libertarians and conservatives argue that less-informed or less-well-educated people shouldn't vote--this at least has a justification, albeit a sick and twisted one.  But is there a coherent argument for making voting less convenient that doesn't boil down to "I don't like the way those people vote"?

On Tuesday, I laid out a pretty basic premise for reforming our election process, and sketched a case for why this needs to happen; I also promised to come back with more specifics on what exactly we should be aiming for.  And here it is--only two days late.  There's more...

One of the most distressing things about the recent ACORN/voter registration/voter "fraud" flap has been the further loss of legitimacy for the voting system in this country.  As it stands, both the right and the left fundamentally distrust the machinery of democracy--the way elections are administered.  Regardless of what you think of the other side's complaints, I think that we can all agree that confidence in our electoral system is a foundation of democracy--and that the current situation serves no one very well.  Behind the fold I unveil the first in an occasional look at the problems of our voting system, and what we can do to fix it.

As promised earlier, I'm focusing on the way voter files are used during the runup to an election.  Last week we covered early voting; this week, it's time to focus on new registrants.  Follow me to the magical land of beneath the fold...

As you may have seen, the Supreme Court ruled that the Ohio Secretary of State no longer has to match newly-registered voters against other government databases before allowing them to vote.  This is a major win for Democrats (who registered the vast bulk of new voters in Ohio this year, thanks to their record-breaking ground game) and for people who care about voting rights.  The first one should be obvious, but let me explain the second.

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