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“Petition drive seeks return of same-day registration”

In Maine.

If same-day registration is restored before the next election, will that amount to a same-day registration law that is “in effect continuously” for NVRA purposes? Otherwise, I imagine there’s a fair amount of work left for Maine to comply with a whole lot of federal obligations that had never before applied…

Update: h/t to Lisa Danetz, at Demos: though Maine allowed same-day registration until this year’s repeal, that practice was apparently universal throughout the state at registrars’ offices, but discretionary at the polls. As such, Maine didn’t qualify for the NVRA exemption. A list of the states qualifying in 1994 is on PDF page 21 of this FEC report (warning: it’s a large file).

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