Why is tomorrow the last day to register to vote in Illinois? Who the ef came up with such a dumbass system? Everywhere in the world people are managing to vote without any idiotic registration.
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Why is tomorrow the last day to register to vote in Illinois? Who the ef came up with such a dumbass system? Everywhere in the world people are managing to vote without any idiotic registration.
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serious question.. how do you vote without registering? are you just meaning they register and then vote day of? i mean otherwsie anyone can put down any name at any location (um..multiple ones perhaps?) and potentially fraudulently vote?
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Republican games begin. Obama won here in 2012.
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It is because you vote in a place, and you only vote once. Basically, it has to do with not having an official place of residence registered with the police, or a national identity card. The idea is opt in to everything: you don’t have to have a driver’s license, a social security card, etc. (You have to have a national register of people and their locations to have automatic voter registration, so far as I can work out.) The opt-in model has its problems, of course.
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BUT THIS ELECTION IS SO RIGGED BY THE MEDIA AND THE NIGGER ISLAMIST OBAMA!
THIS IS SO RIGGED…than the GOP has to suppress the vote by enforcing stupid deadlines…BUT WE DON’T CARE, OPEN BORDERS, E-MAILS, LAW AND ORDERRRRRRRRRR,
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You ineligible-to-vote non-citizens just don’t understand the American voting system! The Republicans want every eligible U.S. citizen to be able to carry out his/her constitutional right to cast a vote, but they insist on reasonable safeguards (like showing the same photo-ID that you need to board an airplane).
The Democrats want every illegal immigrant, convicted murderer, and buried corpse within a hundred miles of the polling place to be able to cast vote, since the illegal, the criminal, and the dead always vote for the free-giveaway programs promised by the left!
Relax! The illegal vote definitely made JFK President in 1960, but Trump is blowing it so badly this year that the Party with the Jackass symbol in going to win it fair and square, anyway.
Look on the bright side: If you aren’t eligible to vote, you also aren’t eligible to be called for jury duty every 18 months or so, which — if you get selected as ridiculously often as some of us honest citizens do — is major pain in the ass!*
*Also an entirely other subject! (At least you finally get out of that obligation at 75.)
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Republican outreach in full force!
It’s thinking like this that has led to the condition your party is in right now. But will you listen?
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In person voter fraud, of the kind that ID laws are meant to prevent, are so rare as to be almost nonexistent.
One study found 31 allegations of in person voter fraud in U.S. elections between 2000-2014 out of a billion votes cast. That’s 3.1^e-6.
The undead do not have enough sway over US elections to matter. (I’m betting I’m not in the beginning of a zombie movie.) Previously convicted felons who have served their sentences might.
There is a constitutional right to vote. There is no constitutional right to drive a car or truck, buy cigarettes or alcohol or board a plane. This is a fact lost on young dumbasses all over the land, especially those who operate motor vehicles without carrying their license and then whine they can’t buy cigarettes when asked for ID.
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“This is a fact lost on young dumbasses all over the land”
Old dumbasses too! See above. 😀
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It’s impossible to get 60% of the population to vote at all. The idea that crowds of people would be so desperate to vote that they’ll rush from.state to state in huge droves, eager to vote illegally, is quite bizarre.
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You can organize to “deliver the vote” and it is done, and has been done historically even more — in legit and less legit ways. If people didn’t have to vote in a specific precinct then it would be fairly easy to get a lot of people in to vote in a race you really cared about. So no, individuals won’t do this, but your friendly local PAC could organize toward it. This is one reason why registration, so you vote once and vote in once place, theoretically where you live (since it is impractical to do registration automatically here — I believe Canada used to do it automatically, but gave up as it was too impractical).
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I’m sure there must be a way to computerize it if states cooperated. I just find it strange that there are so many obstacles on the way to voting when the turnout is so low as it is.
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It’s a combination of 2.5 factors.
1. Since there is no national identity card or national register of people, it is too easy to make errors if people don’t help out by saying this is me and I am here. The ways to make it easier that work are things like making it possible to register when you get a driver’s license (so you don’t have to go to a second place).
1.5. Not having a national registry of people, not giving one agency so much jurisdiction, is one of the features of so-called American freedom we are attached to. The separation of jurisdictions is important, although many do not understand it.
In conflict with those things, there is also
2. Voter suppression. It is hard to register to vote, find out about voting, find out what the ballot is, etc. in a lot of places on purpose. Low turnout is engineered in this way, among others. That is why I always vote, actually: people say it doesn’t matter, etc., that it is rebellious not to vote, but I say that if they are putting up so many obstacles to it, it must be important.
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It’s very important! Even in the places where everything is supposedly decided by default. Who knows how things would turn out if everybody voted and everybody got access.
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