“It would be much better if registration was done in advance of Election Day. It would be easier for our clerks to handle that.” Although Walker did not directly call for the law to be overturned, Democrats saw his comments as an indication that the governor would push for an eliminating of same-day registration. “Scott Walker rolled out the next phase of his dangerous legislative agenda, advocating the elimination of Wisconsin’s same-day voter registration laws,” said state Democratic Party Chairman Mike Tate… The vast majority of states manage to operate under these “dangerous” conditions, as did Wisconsin until 1975, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures: Only “Eight states plus the District of Columbia presently offer same-day registration (SDR), allowing any qualified resident of the state to go to the polls on election day, register that day, and then vote. Another two states have enacted same-day registration but have not yet implemented it.”
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has Democrats hyperventilating over remarks he made at the Ronald Reagan Library regarding the state’s same-day registration: