The Dane County Board will consider at its meeting Thursday placing a referendum on the April 2013 ballot asking voters whether or not they support same-day voter registration in Wisconsin.
The advisory referendum, which cites a record turnout of over 70 percent in the November 2012 election, would ask voters if Wisconsin should continue to allow registration on election day, according to a Wednesday press release by Dane County Executive Joe Parisi.
State leaders have recently supported repealing Wisconsin’s same-day registration law, including Gov. Scott Walker during a speech in California Nov. 16 according to a video of the event.
Parisi said such a move would be an extreme change to voter rights.
“Now is not the time to compromise the success we have experienced in engaging more people in [the democratic] process,” he said.
States that allow same-day voter registration laws experience voter turnout 10 to 12 percent higher than those that do not, according to the referendum.
