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>international norms You mean like voter ID requirements?
by ebfe 10y ago
>international norms
You mean like voter ID requirements?
- specialist 10y agoMost democracies do not have a separate voter registration (bureaucratic) step.
- ebfe 10y agoRight, I'm aware. Most democracies do not have voter registration, but do have voter ID requirements. This is the system you believe we should establish, on the basis that it's the international norm?
- int_19h 10y agoMost democracies don't have a byzantine process for obtaining an ID, and proving that you're who you claim you are. So if you can make the ID issuing process in US work as well as it does in, say, Germany, sure, there's no problem with requiring an ID to vote.
- specialist 10y agoI wish you weren't being down voted. You're asking reasonable, technical questions. Without getting into the politics of it all.
- enraged_camel 10y agoI think he's being downvoted mostly because of his tone, which comes across as a bit too snarky.
- triplesec 10y agothis is not true, AFAIK. There is a process for registering and verifying. the UK requires registration, though you do not need photo ID
- aljones 10y agoalso not true in australia
- specialist 10y agore: UK and Australian Thanks, I'll followup, see what's what. I hate being wrong. I would have bet money (or a beer) that both had universal voter registration. Especially Australian, since I understood their voting is compulsory.
- aljones 10y agoI guess it qualifies as universal voter registration. The voter roll is a separate thing is what I meant. There are forms for registering, but it can be updated automatically by other government data sources. The important thing is updating your primary residence. No photo id is required to actually vote.
- rhallie11 10y agoI feel like photo voter id reqs wouldn't be that controversial if there were a "free" (paid with taxes, obz) state-issued id that everyone had access to. You can get passports and state ids made, but they defs cost money.