I have never understood why you need to register ahead of time to vote in US. It seems like an unnecessary blocker. In Denmark you just show up on the day, state your SSN, show ID and get a ballot.
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I have never understood why you need to register ahead of time to vote in US. It seems like an unnecessary blocker.
No, you absolutely do understand perfectly.
We don't have national ID or election systems. So with early voting it would be legitimately possible to register and vote multiple times in multiple places without the deadline.
Why would your SSN not suffice?
The SSN isn't an identification. In fact, it specifically says on the back of mine that it is not to be used for identification.
It was intended intended to do one thing only: track lifetime earnings to determine retirement benefits. The thing is since there isn't a national ID everyone is required to get, businesses started using it to track people.
You need to do it because it's an unnecessary blocker. That's the point. Poor people disproportionately struggle to jump through the hurdles in place for voting, and Poor people disproportionately vote D. R loves to make voting harder under the auspices of "fraud prevention".
Also a lot of federal centralization didnt happen until the great depression, we are a federation of states meaning that historically it most shit was handled by the states and not in a states rights way but a who runs the local library sort of way. It was easier bureaucracatically as well allowing the feds to focus on other things.
This is also why random bits of bureaucracy is not standardized across all states, like the DMV sure most states got the memo but then you have whatever the fuck Washington is doing.
It really is also a states rights thing. The federal government, by design, has no say in how elections or driver's licenses work.
That they have stepped in to the driver's license space is an overstep of their authority, honestly.
The federal government is not the sovereign entity, the many states are.
The feds have nothing to do with driver's licenses. States have agreements to honor each other's licenses.
That's no longer true, the 14th amendment effectively made the constitution sovereign over all the states, period. That's how incorporation works, otherwise states could have handgun bans again like in the 19th century.
I meant in the southern way, not in the wesetern states let us do our own thing sort of way.
Yes, it's utterly stupid. One reason I can point to is that the US never really had a national ID system. The social security number is a hack to get something along the lines of an ID, but it's not reliable enough to make it viable for elections.
It's not "stupid." To call it stupid is to gloss over the fact that it's a calculated, deliberate, malicious tactic of targeted voter disenfranchisement meant to swing elections.
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gives all the smaller governmental departments(like the municipal courts) time to assimilate your info for future contacts like jury duty
Sounds like the least cynical answer I have gotten here.
I encourage people not only to check your registratio, but full on order a new ID, confirming it j’s your correct name, address, and a updated picture it poseible.
Understand, Texas has realistically been blue since at least 2000. Voter turnout is an existential threat to the Texas republicans, and they know it.
Ken Paxton will personally close all polling stations if more than 20 people show up to vote
Gonna repeat what I said in a different comment:
Encourage people to try to vote early everywhere. Texas has early in person voting from Oct 21 – Nov 1
If you vote early, you'll have time to come back again in case there's some last minute changes to the polling places open or some other problem. Plus you also don't then have to worry about something like being sick on election day
These are all excellent reasons. If I may add one.
I want to fuck Donald day one. So bad. Fuck him. My rage seethes waiting to be released into my ballot.
But otherwise spot on!
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Ummmm.
In 2020, 11 million people voted.
Texas is going blue. Vote!
Another million might've made us blue already. Trump had the smallest GOP margin of victory in Texas in decades! Texas picked Carter, LBJ, and JFK for President! If Harris wins Texas then there's basically no way Trump can sue his way to victory.
This would be the required level of over achievement to fuck over the Republicans. It may even be the parties first sign of death, if they lose Texas they will either need to reform or die.
Fuck, I hope so - but I'm not optimistic. When Obama won in 2008 asking with the House and a super majority in the Senate, I thought "finally, the death of the Republican party. Surely they'll be forced to move to the left to have any chance of winning another election."
Instead they doubled down, created the TEA Party, and eventually got is to where we are today.
"Nuh uh, it was the illegal immigrants we didn't kill with the razor wire", Ken Paxton after Harris wins Texas, probably.
how many were registered though?
16.1mil
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Has piss baby Ken Paxton cut voting to only one polling locale yet?
Encourage people to try to vote early everywhere. Texas has early in person voting from Oct 21 – Nov 1
If you vote early, you'll have time to come back again in case there's some last minute changes to the polling places open or some other problem. Plus you also don't then have to worry about something like being sick on election day
you can vote at any polling place within your county if you vote early
Early Voting Locations
Voting during the early voting period couldn’t be easier and more convenient! Registered and eligible voters may vote at ANY early voting location located in their county of residence. Whether you are at home, work or out running errands, you will be able to find a polling place near you. Early voting locations will be populated in our search site "My Voter Portal" two days prior to the first day of early voting. Here, you can enter your Name, County, Date of Birth and ZIP code to look up your registration information and find your nearest polling location. You may want to contact the Early Voting Clerk for State and County Elections in your county for early voting locations. Also, many newspapers publish early voting polling locations.
Note: Polling place hours vary at each early voting location.
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hopefully theyre all antiorange
Fucking hell yes. Hoping that's our side and not maggots.
Encouraging news about that from the article
The biggest registration gains have been in the Democratic stronghold of Harris County and along the I-35 corridor, which now leans blue
Harris County.
Ha.
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