Do Americans realise how absolutely insane the very concept of “purging a voter registration list” is? You have to *register to vote*? What are you even talking about?
Are you a citizen? Then you should automatically get a vote. There isn’t anything to administer. You live there. The government serves you; not you it. Voting isn’t supposed to be a privilege, or reward.
The obvious abuse vector that any system other than “all citizens vote” becomes is astounding.
“Well what about XyZ?”
Did I stutter? *all* citizens. You all pay taxes, you all live together, choices made by gov effect all of you. So you all get a say. Automatically. Nothing should make any persons voice not count. Yes that includes criminals. ALL get a vote.
For a self proclaimed world leading democracy, so many of the systems in play seem very far removed from that bold claim and much more “keep the current rich white guys in power” encoded in the system as a whole.
@mattwilcox I guess, then that, instead of registering to vote, Americans need to have some sort of "citizen identification card" or "system of citizenship tracking" to serve as an entry ticket to the polls?
Or does "citizen" = "resident"? Because we DO have a lot of non-citizens who pay taxes, live together, who are affected by gov't choices, but aren't allowed to vote.
@Bodling I think many of the current people in power won't because it's a threat to their power - but as with so many things, "stuff should change" because the morality is obvious and different to the accepted past.
Eventually it will change.
Eventually.
Matt Wilcox
Bodling