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 No. you didn’t stutter. You just missed the valid reasons. people die and should not be left on the rolls to reduce the temptation to commit identity fraud based voting fraud. People move and most elections have residency requirements.
Sure, both of those might be resolved differently but the mechanisms to do so are not in place.
The problem is not purging the rolls per se; it’s using purges as a voter suppression tactic.
Matt Wilcox
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