I find it very hard to understand how anyone gets away with this in America. The way it *should* work is surely how it worked for me here in the UK: I registered to vote when I was about 16 or 17 (it then activates on your 18th birthday), and I don't think I even had to remember, I think the local council sent an automatic letter (presumably due to birth records from 16/17 years prior) and we probably just had to confirm my details were correct and I was registered.

And that's it. That one registration lasts for life.

I did have to re-register once, a week or two ago, due to moving house. This automatically cancels my registration in my old area and lets me vote in my new home constituency.

The only other thing I've done is, back at the start of the pandemic, changed from voting in person to postal voting. This also lasts until you cancel it, or until you re-register in a new area.

This is how it should work. America, stop tolerating whoever the hell is periodically taking away your right to vote and forcing you to do pointless work to get it back. For a purported democracy, that is unacceptable.

Also, why in heck are political parties involved in voter registration over there!? They should be kept at a *very* great distance from that. Voter registration must be done by an organisation with no vested interest, as should everything to do with holding elections.

Kat Kimbriel

2024-08-31 16:01:06

Just saw an Ohio voter comment elsewhere that they'd been purged and had to get that fixed. So if you haven't voted in like the last six weeks for a primary?

Maybe check to make sure you are on your state's rolls as a voter.

And battleground folks--we'd better keep checking.