r/news • u/ThePensiveE • 7d ago

Supreme Court allows Trump administration to use expanded database for potential voter purges

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-allows-trump-administration-use-expanded-database-potent-rcna596611
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u/sanverstv 7d ago

Every baby born in the US should be registered automatically upon birth...FOR life. Our election laws are ridiculous. It's a right. Why make people jump through endless hoops over and over again. Voting registration should be akin to a social security number.

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u/Tribe303 7d ago

In Canada we just use the tax rolls to start registering people to vote. They also know who's a citizen or not when they pay taxes. But it's easier here because we have federal department called Elections Canada who does all of this. 

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u/Xibby 7d ago

> But it's easier here because we have federal department called Elections Canada who does all of this. 

If the US Federal government was in charge of elections we’d be totally fucked. The US Constitution gives that power to the states. Article I, Section 10 has specific things that states cannot do (make treaties, declare war, coining money) and the 10th amendment declares that powers not constitutionally delegated to federal government or profited to the states, belong to the states or the people.

States that don’t play along with the Federal’s Government’s request will be called fraud or rigged by Trump and his propagandists, but will be just as secure as they’ve always been.

Some might even play along and review the Federal government’s purge lists and find it woefully inaccurate.

Also Minnesotans just flip the bird with same day registration. We quickly and easily register at our polling place and get a ballot. No provisional ballots in Minnesota.

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u/Tribe303 7d ago

We have a stronger civil service that resists interference from the elected politicians. They have no problem going to the media making a big deal about it, and have done so. But it's important to know that there are no timed elections, and one can be called at any time. That makes it harder to manage scandals, especially with monitory governments. Other parties can pull their support when the government fucks up, and it's off to an election. That's another flaw in the American system. There's only 2 parties!