The real question that needs to be asked and answered is 'Why?' Why would any group of legislators want to discourage college students from registering and voting? I thought what we wanted is for young people to participate in the democratic process. We don't have one shred of evidence of voter fraud in this state.

See, we answered your question here, but we're not answering all these other questions that, perhaps, you haven't even asked us yet.

And he asked the scribes, What question ye with them? / And one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit; / And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.

The goal of this bill is important and laudable. Don't put it aside because some people's lives will become harder because they don't have my social security number.

It's not novel; it's bizarre.

We may have been the only state where something good came out of an attempt to make secret so much of the government's business.