Disenfranchisement or laziness?

This is the typical person Democrats say is disenfranchised by election laws that ensure the validity of our elections (from the Star Tribune):

In the final days of last year's presidential election, Nick Hauer still hadn't registered to vote. But on Election Day the 19-year-old Roseville resident cast his first-ever ballot.

"It was really quick," he said, adding that he probably wouldn't have voted if not for Minnesota's same-day voter registration.

If Minnesota did not have same day registration, who would really be disenfranchising who here? The government certainly wouldn't be disenfrachising anyone. Hauer would have had the same opportunity to register that everyone else in the state had. The only person that would have kept Hauer from voting would have been Hauer and his own laziness.

<>The lack of proper respect given to the voting process by the left has chapped my hide since at least 2000, when I wrote a letter to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, scolding those who could not take voting seriously enough to take the time to fill out their ballots correctly. An excerpt:

<>What is this lesson? The right to vote is not a right to be taken lightly. Millions upon millions of our very own relatives and ancestors have died to protect this right for us. We are not to treat the act of casting our ballot in anything less than a serious manner. If, after all that our veterans, living and deceased, have done to preserve this right for us, we cannot take the time to correctly fill out a ballot, whether it be punch-card, computer-scanned or absentee, then our vote does not deserve to be counted.

It does not deserve to be counted because we have not lived up to what those who came before us sacrificed to give us the right to choose our own leaders.

Change the words so I'm talking about voter registration, and I still stand by what I said then. Too many people in this country take for granted rights that others in the world yearn for but may never get.

(HT: The American Mind)