A group of Pennsylvania lawmakers have introduced House Bill 13, which would allow citizens in the state to register and cast their ballots on the same day.

The state’s current voter registration deadline requires would-be voters to register 30 days in advance of the election. Voter registration deadlines constitute a barrier to entry that keeps millions of voters from casting ballots every year.

The bill is being introduced now because the state’s leadership has changed. When Republicans took control of the state in 2010, the most politically-viable electoral reform proposals involved reallocating the state’s electoral votes by congressional district, which would have allowed Republican candidates to receive a minority of the popular vote while taking home 13 of the state’s 20 electoral votes. The state also passed a voter ID law so restrictive that it was later struck down in court. Since Democrat Tom Wolf beat incumbent Republican Tom Corbett by ten points in last year’s gubernatorial election, that kind of legal election-rigging won’t fly.

To be clear, House Bill 13 is still unlikely to pass. Even though the same-day voter registration bill is an incremental expansion of the franchise when compared with automatic voter registration that recently passed in Oregon and is being considered in Illinois, Republicans — who still control Pennsylvania’s House and Senate — will likely block the bill, as the voters most likely to benefit from the bill are lower-income, urban voters who lean Democratic.

However, as is the case with all expansions of the franchise, opposition to House Bill 13 will be three parts partisan and zero parts logical. Anticipating concerns over (nonexistent) voter fraud that Pennsylvania Republicans will no doubt raise , House Bill 13 sponsor Ryan Bizzarro (D – Erie), explained in the Philadelphia Inquirer that:

[Just] to be safe, H.B. 13 has extra safeguards in place to protect against fraud. Potential voters would need to bring an acceptable form of ID to register, and their ballots would be provisional until the Department of State approves their applications. I believe the scrutiny of these applications would further emphasize the “one person, one vote” principle, instead of eroding it.

Once again, you can’t even make a bad argument against same-day or automatic voter registration without being transparently partisan. You can’t claim to be a small-d democrat if you’re taking your cues from George “Regarding voting, more often means worse” Will.

Unless, of course, your idea of democracy is one in which elections produce results you favor. In that case, I’ve got a Banana Republic to pitch to you.