the bottom for the third consecutive presidential election were Hawaii (43%), West Virginia (51%), Texas (52%), Tennessee (52%) and Arkansas (53%) None were battleground states. All cut off the opportunity to correct a registration or register three to four weeks before Election Day.

Same Day Registration (SDR) gives voters the opportunity to register to vote or update their registration when voting early and on Election Day. Voter turnout in states with SDR was seven points higher than non-SDR states. As of the 2016 election cycle, 13 states and the District of Columbia offered Same Day Registration, seven of which were in the top 10 nationally for voter turnout. Additionally, three other states – California, Hawaii and Vermont - have enacted it for 2017 or later.

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A Swedish director goes slumming in the former Soviet Union

Lukas Moodysson's previous movie, Together, a big-hearted comedy about a mid-'70s Swedish commune, ended with a rowdy soccer match in the snow and an ecstatic flurry of hugs and ABBA. At the beginning of his latest film, Lilya 4-Ever, a teenager desperately wanders the bleak streets of an anonymous city, bruised and bloodied and utterly alone. Together's rapid-fire montage of embraces is replaced by jump-cut images of pummeling uniformity: the frightened girl running and running, bereft of any destination but a final exit into eternity. Lilya 4-Ever, from its opening moments, marks the Swedish director's 180-degree turn from wry benevolence toward a grim, Loachian social realism. It eschews Marxist overtones, however, for a Christian vision of