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Article: Same-day voter registration passes in N.C.
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- June 21, 2007
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Saja Hindi
University Wire
06-21-2007
(Technician) (U-WIRE) RALEIGH, N.C. -- Student Government officials have been lobbying for N.C. House Bill 91, same-day voter registration, which passed with a 33 to 15 vote from the Senate floor back to the House Wednesday afternoon.
According to Greg Doucette, Student Senate president and intern at the state legislature, the bill allows citizens to register on the spot at "one-stop" voting sites.
"It's something that's very important to a lot of people," Doucette, a senior in computer science, said. "But there are always concerns with voter fraud."
To prevent voter fraud, Doucette said, this bill creates one difference in one-stop voting sites for ...