• 191 Million US Voter Registration Records Leaked
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[QUOTE=Toyhobo;49443686]I mean in Sweden you get an allocated local voting place to go near your place of residence and you can only vote there since they have a list of all the people who is registered to live nearby and is 18 or older and if you're not on the list you cant vote. You also get a card in the mail that you have to show to get in to the building to vote to show that you haven't voted yet.[/QUOTE] The US has that, too. But if someone says they just haven't updated their address, the polling place still has to let them cast a ballot there. That's also the case if the citizen does mail in ballots.
[QUOTE=Ridge;49443835]The US has that, too. But if someone says they just haven't updated their address, the polling place still has to let them cast a ballot there. That's also the case if the citizen does mail in ballots.[/QUOTE] Just go with voting cards, show it at the entrance like a ticket, they give you the stuff you need to vote and you cant go anywhere else afterwards. and i feel like if people "haven't updated their address" they shouldn't just get to vote and those who cant vote because of it for real is probably a huge minority and wouldn't really change the outcome.
[QUOTE=Toyhobo;49443843]Just go with voting cards, show it at the entrance like a ticket, they give you the stuff you need to vote and you cant go anywhere else afterwards. and i feel like if people "haven't updated their address" they shouldn't just get to vote and those who cant vote because of it for real is probably a huge minority and wouldn't really change the outcome.[/QUOTE] It's done even more simply and foolproof in a few African countries (but maybe a little more inconvenient): People have to dip a finger into semi-permanent ink when they vote, and all voting takes place on the same day. Of course that doesn't prevent non-citizens from voting, so I can see why countries that have good identification infrastructure don't use this method. (I consider it somewhat debatable whether this is actually a problem though, as long as the constitution is sensible and there's no large temporary "invasion" from neighbouring countries this way. It's probably better to only let formal citizens vote in most cases, but unfortunately there's not really any data to compare afaik.)
[QUOTE=Toyhobo;49443843]Just go with voting cards, show it at the entrance like a ticket, they give you the stuff you need to vote and you cant go anywhere else afterwards. and i feel like if people "haven't updated their address" they shouldn't just get to vote and those who cant vote because of it for real is probably a huge minority and wouldn't really change the outcome.[/QUOTE] Shit, people are against having an ID to vote because they say poor people can't get mail. Voting cards would get shot down the same way.
[QUOTE=Toyhobo;49443686]I mean in Sweden you get an allocated local voting place to go near your place of residence and you can only vote there since they have a list of all the people who is registered to live nearby and is 18 or older and if you're not on the list you cant vote. You also get a card in the mail that you have to show to get in to the building to vote to show that you haven't voted yet.[/QUOTE] That's not true. You can vote wherever you want actually. Your vote is then sent to your registered place and counted there.
[QUOTE=Toyhobo;49443686]I mean in Sweden you get an allocated local voting place to go near your place of residence and you can only vote there since they have a list of all the people who is registered to live nearby and is 18 or older and if you're not on the list you cant vote.[/QUOTE] I don't think we can be trusted with that though, suddenly your designated polling place is 25 miles away because your registered party isn't aligned with that of the party making the rules.
they just mail me my ballot, and i fill it out and go drop it in front of the courthouse at some point before election day i also have the option of sending it through the mail, but i nearly had my ballot stolen a couple years ago because some guy was prowling the mailboxes so i prefer dropping it in front of the courthouse [editline]7th January 2016[/editline] i'm sure a bunch of other states and countries do something like this too, but i really like this method because it makes sure everyone gets one vote and has a chance to actually get it counted
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