teal-mafioso:

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giandujakiss:

CHECK YOUR REGISTRATION STATUS.  You can usually do it at the website of your local secretary of state, or at Vote.org.

Anyone who follows me from Georgia?  If not, pass it on.

sigh..  Actually, let me just add, THIS BULLSHIT RIGHT HERE, THIS IS WHY YOUR VOTE MATTERS.  You think they’d be so hot to take away your rights if it didn’t?

If you can register to vote by mail DO SO!!! Not only does it give you more time to research your ballot options, it provides a paper trail, so you can PROVE how you voted, no matter how the Russian hackers massage the electronic numbers.

Something about the US election always bother me: why do US citizens have to resister before they can have the right to vote? Shouldn’t this be an innate right? Since the US is all about democracy and shit?

Here we automatically have the right to vote if you have citizenship (most people get a citizen ID when reaching 14y), registered your living address for 4-6 months (depending on whether it’s a local or national-wise election, mainly to prevent people from deliberately changing their living address/”moving” to a voting city to manipulate local vote numbers), and are 20y and above. You don’t have to register and you won’t lose your right to vote as long as you’re not in prison. Isn’t this more fair?

“Each of the 591,548 voters affected by the move had already been on
the state’s “inactive” registration list. That means they had not voted,
updated their voter registration information, filed a change of name or
address, signed a petition or responded to attempts to confirm their
last known address for at least the past three years.

None of the voters had had any contact with local election officials
or the state since at least Sept. 16, 2014, according to the Georgia
Secretary of State’s Office.”

Indeed it is a bit weird that they have to registrate but apparently, if the article is correct, these people only got inactive because they have been lazy as fuck about it.

Here the district officials will have a list of people who registered their “permanent address” there, people can simply show up with their ID to vote, no matter how long they’ve been active or inactive.

I guess my main concern is that not everyone has the time to register? People who have to work 2 jobs 7 days a week probably don’t have the energy for it, and it’s not fair to ignore them just because they don’t have as much free time as people who live a better live and have more free time? I think it’s more fair that every legit citizen has the right to vote without them making extra effort, like they have to fight for it, if that make sense.

Georgia cancels registration of more than 591,500 voters