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You can’t just walk into the polls and vote – poll workers compare your information, including your signature, to what they have in their database. Where does that database come from? Why you, because you had to register to vote. Here are the rules in the Old North State:
http://www.ncsbe.gov/content.aspx?id=1&s=1
Those rules are set by the legislature, currently under Republican dominion. Chief among them is your local board of election does not give you a voter registration card on the spot. They mail it to you later. Additionally, the local board of elections routinely purges voters from the rolls. In other words, when you show up at the poll, you have already been screened.
Faux concern about voter fraud is a smokescreen for preventing the wrong people ( poor, black, and both) from exercising their franchise.
I promise you if there were a similar impediment to the Second Amendment, we’d have a congressional investigation and some new laws guaranteeing access.
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I don’t understand why you don’t receive an automatic voter registration card that activates on your 18th birthday at the same time you receive your social security card – which now happens when your birth is registered in the US. And this “activated” voter registration card would be good for a vote in any precinct anywhere in the US. Since it would be encoded with a magnetic strip (like on a credit card) that would be swiped through a reader/imprinter like the one at the bank that puts your self-selected PIN number on it – once you have voted – you would then be ineligible to do so again.
I don’t get why all the fuss over having to re-register every time you move, or all the shenanigans about when the election officials decide to move the polling places and that crap. One year I was unable to vote at all because I worked as a poll worker – and was unable to leave the polling place where I worked to go to the polling place where I was supposed to vote. How dumb! I was an eligible voter – why couldn’t I vote there?
All this crap about trying to prevent “illegal voters”. Who exactly are these people? I suppose undocumented workers. But those people also don’t have proper social security cards either.
I think that every single person who is walking around should be able to vote anywhere at any time and it should be up to the elections officials (only) to make some case for why they shouldn’t. After all, if you are born in a US hospital – you are by definition, a citizen. All persons who have already voted in at least one election – should be considered “grandfathered” in and should not have to be subjected to any of these draconian ID laws. If you already have a voter ID card – that’s a government issued ID card for purposes of voting. Good enough.