Don’t make the mistake of thinking this is a legitimate implementation of such a system. It will absolutely be intentionally flawed in ways that allow the disenfranchisement of millions of Americans citizens. That’s 100% what always happens with Republican initiatives to “protect” elections. It will be made trivial to “accidentally” remove legitimate voter registrations, and a labyrinthian bureaucratic process to correct them.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Where I live we have something called the electoral roll, which is a nationwide database of registered voters.
It’s weird the states don’t also have this already.
Tinidril@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
pheonixdown@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
So, states already have their list of registered voters, this is about culling people from that list the state doesn’t think should really be there (but really specifically those supporting the opposition of the party in power, typically Republicans removing minority groups).
The reason removing people is a real thing that needs to happen is that people aren’t permanent citizens of a state, they’re just residents, and what state they are a resident of for voting purposes is extremely easy to change, and doesn’t really require notifying the state you’re leaving, just the one you now want to be a resident of.
The reason this specific thing is bullshit is that every time anyone does any kind of check for non-citizens voting, it’s basically non-existent. Instead, they’re going to use the pretense of checking citizenship to check other information, which they’ll selectively find other discrepancies in to remove people who are registered, but are likely to support their opposition. Likely with little time before an election, so hopefully they don’t find out until it’s too late or other frictions cause them to forgo voting voluntarily.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’m fairly sure we already do, but they are administered state by state, and not centralized.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yeah, it is called voter rolls.