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The US is only ostensibly a democracy. It's not a functioning one, due to widespread voter disenfranchisement. Voter ID laws, voter roll purges, registration b
by LeoPanthera 1y ago
The US is only ostensibly a democracy. It's not a functioning one, due to widespread voter disenfranchisement.
Voter ID laws, voter roll purges, registration barriers, polling place accessibility, early and mail-in voting restrictions, and perhaps most importantly gerrymandering, misinformation, and intimidation all serve to reduce the power of the ballot box.
And that's before we even get to US citizens in Puerto Rico, Guam, the US Virgin Islands, and American Samoa being unable to vote in Presidential elections at all.
- nickff 1y agoMost other countries have voter ID, and the controversy surrounding it is puzzling to most foreigners. Additionally, parliamentary systems which result in majority governments are much more ‘dictatorship-like’ than the US system where individual representatives retain some autonomy.
- hydrogen7800 1y agoA large number of Americans do not have ID's, which is strange to many people. If the need for voter ID and risk of fraud were so great, the efforts would be to make it trivial for these folks to get one, rather than preventing them from voting.
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