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Texas does just that! When you apply for a driver's license or other state ID, you can elect to register to vote at the same time. Two birds, one stone.
by anonfordays 2y ago
Texas does just that! When you apply for a driver's license or other state ID, you can elect to register to vote at the same time. Two birds, one stone.
- Apocryphon 2y agoYeah and what would be even better is when you go to vote you can get an ID.
- anonfordays 2y agoWould be nice, but most states do not allow same day registration (New York does not as an example), or same day registration is extremely limited (in California you need your ID to vote and register on the same day). The aforementioned problem persists, different organizations with different scopes.
- Apocryphon 2y agoStronger voter ID laws are nice too, until the political will was expended into making it happen. By the same token, smarter ID laws can also be enacted if appropriate effort is undertaken.
- anonfordays 2y agoStronger voter ID laws are not nice to haves, they are the law in many states like Texas. Just like anything else surrounding government and laws, you must plan accordingly, appropriate effort is required by the voter.
- Apocryphon 2y agoRight, and the same can be said of providing the service of issuing a voter ID at the voting center on Election Day, once it is passed as legislation.
- anonfordays 2y agoSince many states don't allow registration on the same day as voting, I'd say the government has planned accordingly after passing the aforementioned voter ID laws. Just found out this is a a standard federally: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41921184 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41921184
- Apocryphon 2y agoGreat! So then when they change it to allow for the issuing of voter IDs on election day, it can be done at the federal level in one fell swoop. And who knows, maybe this voter ID can be a national one so no need to deal with state bureaucracies.
- anonfordays 2y agoI wouldn't hold my breath.
- Apocryphon 2y agoAnd that’s fine. As Bismarck said, politics is the art of the possible, and what becomes possible ebbs and flows with the shifting of the Overton window. Stronger voter ID laws one decade, smarter voter ID laws the next.
- dragonwriter 2y agoTexas is hardly unique in this, since every state except those which continuously since 1994 have either not required registration or offered election day registration is required to do this under the federal National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (the “motor voter” law.) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Voter_Registration_Act_of_1993 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Voter_Registration_...
- anonfordays 2y agoFigured it was something federal, I've lived in multiple states and they've all been the same/similar.