The former official from Coldwater, a Republican supporter and legal resident who believed he was eligible to vote, now faces possible deportation proceedings
In my country, I have to go to my designated box, in the designated table of the designated school, where three people will check my ID against the list of people who can vote there before they unlock the box where I put my vote.
The problem is Republicans use Voter ID as a Trojan horse to enact naked voter suppression. There are very few people who actually oppose Voter ID if implemented properly.
The issue is complicated by the fact that elections even for president are run by the states, because of the anti-democratic views of some of the founding fathers 250 years ago. Different states wanted to prevent different types of people from voting, some states took a long time to allow non-landowners to vote.
In my state, you have to have provided ID and be a citizen to be on the voter registration list, and they check my name against the list but don’t ask for ID. So someone who wanted to stealy vote would have to know I was registered and was not planning to vote.
The US is really struggling with this issue right now.
Every time this issue is examined, they don’t find any voter fraud sufficient to change the outcome of an election.
So, there’s little reason to change.
We don’t have any national ID that every citizen has, so if we start requiring more stringent identification, we’ll greatly reduce the number of legal voters, trying to fix something that isn’t a problem.
The government should know who is allowed to vote, so I don’t really see how this guy was allowed to vote, either. But I think we could easily set votes like that to the side, and not count them until the voter is checked to be legally voting. It seems strange that there are big criminal penalties attached when people are simply making mistakes, and nobody is hurt.
I think we should just have a national ID that isn’t specifically a driver’s license, that people can get for free, and roll it out slowly, eventually so that all voters are going to have it. There is something that’s similar, I think called “real ID”, that still seems to be a driver’s license. We need something that is primarily an ID that can also act as a driver’s license, not the other way around.
not like this.in Australia, more like the US. You register to vote, turn up on voting day, have your name crossed off a list, fill the boxes in on the ballot paper.
I am amazed of the voting system in the US.
In my country, I have to go to my designated box, in the designated table of the designated school, where three people will check my ID against the list of people who can vote there before they unlock the box where I put my vote.
The problem is Republicans use Voter ID as a Trojan horse to enact naked voter suppression. There are very few people who actually oppose Voter ID if implemented properly.
The issue is complicated by the fact that elections even for president are run by the states, because of the anti-democratic views of some of the founding fathers 250 years ago. Different states wanted to prevent different types of people from voting, some states took a long time to allow non-landowners to vote.
In my state, you have to have provided ID and be a citizen to be on the voter registration list, and they check my name against the list but don’t ask for ID. So someone who wanted to stealy vote would have to know I was registered and was not planning to vote.
Me: “why didn’t the US solve * easily solvable problem?”
Answer, every time: “Republicans”
The US is really struggling with this issue right now.
Every time this issue is examined, they don’t find any voter fraud sufficient to change the outcome of an election.
So, there’s little reason to change.
We don’t have any national ID that every citizen has, so if we start requiring more stringent identification, we’ll greatly reduce the number of legal voters, trying to fix something that isn’t a problem.
The government should know who is allowed to vote, so I don’t really see how this guy was allowed to vote, either. But I think we could easily set votes like that to the side, and not count them until the voter is checked to be legally voting. It seems strange that there are big criminal penalties attached when people are simply making mistakes, and nobody is hurt.
I think we should just have a national ID that isn’t specifically a driver’s license, that people can get for free, and roll it out slowly, eventually so that all voters are going to have it. There is something that’s similar, I think called “real ID”, that still seems to be a driver’s license. We need something that is primarily an ID that can also act as a driver’s license, not the other way around.
not like this.in Australia, more like the US. You register to vote, turn up on voting day, have your name crossed off a list, fill the boxes in on the ballot paper.
that’s it