The State Innovation Exchange (SiX) is a progressive think tank modeled on the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which has had success crafting and passing conservative legislation at the state level by connecting conservative state legislators across the country. Via the Washington Examiner’s Jason Russell, reporting from SiX’s 2014 conference of left-wing legislators in Washington, D.C.:
IA Sen. Majority Leader credits same-day voter reg w/ saving his Dem majority in 2014. Blames ALEC's voter ID laws for GOP gains elsewhere.
— Jason Russell (@JRussellMI) December 12, 2014
As NRO’s John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky have observed, same-day voter registration has the potential to facilitate voter fraud — which is why it has been eliminated in election reform laws passed by several states in recent years, among them North Carolina and Ohio. Thirty-nine states already prohibit same-day registration.
But state legislators (SiX reports about 200 in attendance) have found a variety of promising excuses for Democrats’ 2014 losses:
MD state senator just blamed Citizens United decision for Dem losses in the states.
— Jason Russell (@JRussellMI) December 12, 2014
And, of course:
One attendee asked why Dem candidates ran away from Obama's fantastic record.
— Jason Russell (@JRussellMI) December 12, 2014