The value of your vote is going to be diminished if the American Civil Liberties Union has its way.

Last fall the ACLU sued on behalf of three people who missed the state’s deadline to register, demanding they be allowed to vote in the November election. The judge promptly granted them the option to cast provisional ballots, which are only counted after being verified. Unfortunately, the legal action did not end there. The commonwealth is now being sued for even having a deadline for registering to vote. Simply put, the ACLU wants same-day registration.

Our Founding Fathers put their lives on the line to create this great democracy. To suggest it’s too much to ask people to register a couple of weeks before an election to ensure integrity of the process is ridiculous. But, this is not a generation cupcake issue.

Same-day registration is about encouraging fraud and allowing those who are not legally here to vote. Massachusetts will go from the People’s Republic to a banana republic.

Advocates for same-day registration will tell you that new voters will have to provide proof of residency/citizenship to register. However, there is no way to verify their claims until after the election. How do you determine after a ballot goes into the machine which one was fraudulent? You cannot!

Remember, a few short years ago it was exposed that over 10 percent of welfare recipients had bad addresses when they were mailed voter registration forms. If the ACLU wins, this lawsuit will allow them to vote.

Our neighbors to the north have same-day registration. Candidate Chris Sununu, who is now New Hampshire’s governor, said Democrats were “busing them in all over the place … There’s no doubt there’s election fraud.”

He suggested that they were using phony addresses to register.

Our municipal election officials already have enough to keep them busy on Election Day. Verifying addresses and preventing people from voting twice would place a heavy burden on them along with slowing the process.

It’s not as if there is no outreach. The secretary of state’s office runs commercials reminding people of the deadline and we have motor voter registration efforts all year long.

The voters who have followed the rules of registering in time and filling out the census yearly should not be punished by those who cannot follow the simplest of rules. Why should the value of our vote be diluted by possible cheating? We have a right to the value of our vote.