Trump Thread

[Seamus Fermanagh]

My government send me a card or letter that I take to the polling station. Usually no ID is required but I have one on me anyway. The card or letter contains both the information about where I have to vote and how to ask for a ballot that I can mail in.

It is really not a complicated thing, but somehow the USA always seem to make it far more complicated than that.

We were a country that required you to go to your courthouse to register to vote and turned out 40% or more of the electorate on a rainy polling day in November to exercise the franchise for an "off year" election.

We now have voting months labeled "early voting," voter registration at the department of motor vehicles or even online, judges holding polling places open 2-3 hours after their official closing time on election day itself, and an endless litany of "They're trying to suppress our vote" diatribes.

Galling.

[Montmorency]

We were a country that required you to go to your courthouse to register to vote and turned out 40% or more of the electorate on a rainy polling day in November to exercise the franchise for an "off year" election.

We now have voting months labeled "early voting," voter registration at the department of motor vehicles or even online, judges holding polling places open 2-3 hours after their official closing time on election day itself, and an endless litany of "They're trying to suppress our vote" diatribes.

Galling.

Who was the electorate?

[Pannonian]

Who was the electorate?

Americans presumably.

[Husar]

We were a country that required you to go to your courthouse to register to vote and turned out 40% or more of the electorate on a rainy polling day in November to exercise the franchise for an "off year" election.

We now have voting months labeled "early voting," voter registration at the department of motor vehicles or even online, judges holding polling places open 2-3 hours after their official closing time on election day itself, and an endless litany of "They're trying to suppress our vote" diatribes.

Galling.

Well, this may be the case in some states, it only takes a cursory look at Wikipedia to see how they do not apply in others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_...of_DMV_offices

I didn't read the entire article, but I remember from somewhere that the registration places in some states or counties are open only 1 or 2 times a month during the time most peopple are at work and so on. Additionally they have few of them so people can't just hop over during lunch break because they have to wait in line and so on.

Your dismissal might be a bit over the top and no "making it easier" beats automatic registration anyway.