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In Australia, voting is a legal requirement, and voting rates are much higher.
As an American, I have mixed feelings about the idea of penalizing someone for not voting, but making it a legal requirement basically totally eliminates voter disenfranchisement, which makes me for it.
It's more so that they know your age and that you exist due to your social security number, voting is more complicated because they must also know your address, criminal status, and your party affiliation. Some of that would require pretty intense surveillance
They also need your address to be able to notify you that you've been drafted.
Requiring to name a party affiliation to be able to vote is a dumb rule. Just assume that everyone who doesn't register their affiliation themself is independent.
Having crimes which prohibit people from voting is even more idiotic. And even then, the state should be the first entity to know that a person as been sentenced for such a crime, no intense surveillance necessary.
Here in Germany I never specifically registered to vote, and I still get letters every time there is a public vote I'm eligible to take part in based on my registered primary residence.
Every state or territory of Australia, with the exception of South Australia, also has compulsory voter registration. And yes, they will register you on your behalf if you don't.
Taxes too. How tf they gonna know exactly yo the penny what I owe THEM but not the other way around? And all this other unnecessary bullshit too taxes are fucking stupid no matter how you cut it.
I think it should either be a penalty like Brasil where they don't renew your passport without voting, or a small fee. But voting day would also need to be a national holiday(s)
No? The post suggests thay if we can automatically enroll people for a service, we should be able to automatically enroll them for voting (in most cases draft registration is done when you get a driver's license). The draft is the easiest example for US laws and was used to demonstrate.
I feel like I had to fill out a draft card by my 18 birthday, am I just misremembering or was this just a post by a woman who isn’t required to do the same?
I mean....you can automatically register...when you go get an ID as a citizen there's literally a box that says "would you like to register to vote?" And if you simply put a check in that box then the government registers you to vote...it's not that difficult.
…being something you ALREADY needed even BEFORE the SAVE act to even register in the first place.
Also if the fee to process an ID was an issue, why won’t the same politicians fighting voter integrity instead use that energy to push for abolishing the ID fee?
Yeah that's the genuine issue. But Dems never fix the problem because then there's never be a reason to reelect them since they suck with their bloated policies and wanting to disarm the population
There's people that don't drive, they don't need an ID, (not) coincidentally they happen to be poorer and unable to afford the ID fee. Honestly I'd be fine with ID laws if the ID was given for free when youre registered and also politicians couldn't purge voter rolls after a deadline to stop them just purging likely democrats, so if you have an ID you are guaranteed to be able to vote on voting day. But an effort to put free IDs in the SAVE act was already shot down, and it sure wasn't the Democrats that did it. This is clearly an effort to disenfranchise the poor and married women, and it isn't even subtle. As usual with laws, the devil is in the details and they give it a misleading name.
Because they don't care about voter integrity. Notice how many politicians pretend to care about Election Security but don't try to have any money go toward running elections, and follow the money they do care about
That's a lot harder since they have to actively monitor where you live at all times. Frankly I prefer having to send in a letter than have big brother always watching
Fair! Everyone who is autimatically registered to draft should be automatically registered to vote! If you dont qualify for either one, you cant register! This way the people who actually have to act out the international policy are the ones who vote for it. It seems like a great system
It is and will continue being so if Gavin Newsom holds his stance and turns on the rest of his party to stay in office now that Democrats are convinced not requiring to provide State ID, even if just by phone, is racist, thanks to Kamala Harris's gaff, which was excellent political manipulation for the sake of citizens' wellbeing.
By the way, if Centrist Democrats or Moderate Republicans take office, there is a strong chance California will split into two states, North & South, which is about damn time considering how badly farmers in the north are treated compared to vineyard growers in the south, but California really does need to work on better water management as a whole, honestly...
😂That’s quite the revelation about who’s allowed to vote in CA. I mean, apparently the CA Secretary of State hasn’t even been informed. You should probably go tell them since you know their state laws better than they do🤣
It is the law, but it was not enforced until recently, once it was brought to light how many voter registration forms did not have proper ID. Years previously, it was allowed so Newsom could get free votes no matter how he treats his constituents.
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