Elections Board confusing people

A story in the Wisconsin State Journal today highlights something I've been thinking about ever since I saw the supposed public service ad being run by the Wisconsin Elections Board on television. The ad is needlessly confusing and may even keep some people from going to vote because they think they will have to do a lot of time consuming tasks before they can vote.

It's like a campaign ad for the Republican Party advertisement for an overly restrictive voter ID program.

Most people going to vote today do not have to register. If you are voting in the same place you have been voting for a while now, you don't have to register or show ID to vote.

But even if you do have to register, please go and vote. It won't take as long as waiting for the Bush Administration to change the path of the occupation of Iraq if there isn't a very large message sent to him today.