Chellie Interviewed on Rachel Maddow

This June, Republicans spearheaded and passed a bill to eliminate same-day voter registration in Maine.  Governor LePage signed this repeal of a 37-year old Maine tradition into law on June 21, 2011.

Last year over 60,000 Mainers registered to vote on election day, and once again we had one of the highest voter turnouts in the county. In the decades since this law has been in place it has been linked to just one case of voter fraud. But statehouse Republican legislators seem to be taking a page from a conservative national playbook and have repealed this law, making it harder for Mainers to make their voices heard at the ballot box.

Chellie spoke with Rachel Maddow on MSNBC on Monday, June 15 about the Republicans' efforts to undermine voters' rights.

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