Representative Liz Bangerter (R-Helena) says the bill (HB30) will ease the workload for election administrators on Election Day.

The last few Presidential elections in Montana have seen voters standing in line for hours at polling places. Thousands of those people statewide need to register at the same time. Supporters of dropping same-day registration say taking that service out of the process would shorten those lines and free up election officials to work on getting people into the voting booth more quickly…

“I believe strongly that voting is a right and with all rights come responsibilities,” Bangerter said. “Sometimes those responsibilities include making sure that you are registered to vote in a timely manner.”

The bill, which closes registration on the Friday before Election Day, passed out of committee on a party line vote.

“Jeering Inaugural DOJ Lawyer Typical Bureaucratic Partisan Ideologue”

Breitbart has it.

“So when Obama campaign signs hang inside the Department of Justice Voting Section, no big deal. When a DOJ employee writes a report so shoddy on terrorist interrogation that Attorney General Michael Mukasey is forced to personally rewrite it, the Obama administration promotes her and sends her to a DHS job to further damage national security. When billions of your tax dollars are handed over in grants to radical groups and failing energy projects, nobody protests – because the bureaucrats all agree, it is good.”

Hey, Brian Preston Posted the Cave PDF

Brian Preston has the full PDF of the Obama Cave linked at this PJ Tatler posting, Hey, Look at How the Obama Machine Crushed the Romney Campaignwithout having to sign up for anything.

“. . . The Cave was to US politics what the Hubble Space Telescope would have been to Neanderthals: An advancement so profound that it verges on magic.

It was also a very non-traditional approach to politics, in that it was less consultant driven than it was data and ability driven. It hired analysts from Silicon Valley rather than the Beltway, one of whom is a particle physicist. Their agile, outside-politics thinking helped build an efficient, ruthlessly data-driven machine that was able to correctly predict the behavior of millions of Americans and make real-time adjustments that produced votes. . . . “

Inside the Obama Cave

If you want to see why the GOP lost the Presidential election in 2012, go here and read Inside the Obama Cave.

Here’s the bad news for Republicans: the consultancy class, DC Republicans, and the party structure can’t even begin to think in these data driven terms. At best, a scaled down model of the Obama 2012 model will be in place in 2016, while the Obama model of 2012 will be made obsolete by these same people creating something more powerful in 2016. Meanwhile, huge amounts of GOP money will go into TV advertising.