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Tuesday, Aug 1, 2017 - Posted by Rich Miller

* You’ll recall this story from a couple of weeks ago…

Several sources tell NBC 5 that Gov. Bruce Rauner had planned to sign the new Automatic Voter Registration bill last week during the Rainbow PUSH Coalition Convention, but at the last minute the event was cancelled.

The bill allows voters to automatically be registered to vote through an electronic process when applying for a driver’s license or state ID, unless they opt out.

Repeated questions to the governor’s communications team have not been answered, but those who support the bill expect him to sign it.

* Asked to address the possibility that lawmakers may not address his amendatory veto changes to SB1, Gov. Rauner told reporters this morning that he’s AV’d a number of pieces of legislation and the GA simply redrafted the bills to reflect his changes and re-passed them.

Gov. Rauner then pointed specifically to the automatic voter registration bill as an example of where this process has worked. Rauner, of course, hasn’t yet signed AVR, so that’s the best indication yet that he’ll go ahead and approve that piece of legislation.

Raw audio of the presser is here.

*** UPDATE *** As with the number of votes required to accept his amendatory veto, Gov. Rauner also got this one wrong. He issued a total veto of the AVR bill. He did, however, include some recommendations for change in his veto message.

12 Comments

- DuPage Bard - Tuesday, Aug 1, 17 @ 11:23 am:
deflect deflect deflect

- Norseman - Tuesday, Aug 1, 17 @ 11:40 am:
IPI staff loses superstar status.

- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Aug 1, 17 @ 11:42 am:
Dorm room governing from a think tank background isn’t the best way to run a railroad.

- RNUG - Tuesday, Aug 1, 17 @ 11:51 am:
So, did he veto this one to distract from SB-1, or did he veto it to just earn some national GOP brownie points?

- Veil of Ignorance - Tuesday, Aug 1, 17 @ 12:07 pm:
I think Rauner’s team should be careful in pulling AVR into the SB1 debate. Sen. Manar is a champion of both efforts. Risks tarnishing what should be a pure and rare bipartisan win for everybody.

- Anonymoose - Tuesday, Aug 1, 17 @ 12:23 pm:
Your AVR veto and message link is to SB0250 which is from the last ILGA session. Current bill from this year at his desk is SB1933 awaiting action

- Dave Kingman - Tuesday, Aug 1, 17 @ 12:38 pm:
Will someone in the GOP, please, give the Gov. and his staff a tutorial on passing legislation. He is looking inept and uninformed. This is sooo sad. Seriously.

- Rich Miller - Tuesday, Aug 1, 17 @ 12:46 pm:
===Your AVR veto and message link is to SB0250 which is from the last ILGA session===

Correct. Your point?

- Precinct Captain - Tuesday, Aug 1, 17 @ 12:50 pm:
Bruce is on quite the streak of boorish buffoonery today

- Anonymoose - Tuesday, Aug 1, 17 @ 2:28 pm:
===Correct. Your point? by Rich Miller===

ok, no point. It was just that When I read it, it sounded to me like it was referencing the current bill on his desk and not the prior one from last year.

- walker - Tuesday, Aug 1, 17 @ 3:39 pm:
The irony here, is that one of the reasons mentioned by Cullerton when requesting a meeting with Rauner before the special session, was to make sure that the Governor fully understood the ins and outs of an AV process.

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