If you change your address, do you not already go to the DMV to update same?
If so, why aren’t you re-registering to vote at that same time?
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The folks we bought our house from moved to another state over 20 years ago and I still see their names on the voter roll every time I vote and they check my name off as having voted. The poll worker even mentioned one time that they hadn’t been in yet to vote.
I told her the situation and she said oh no, they have to tell us that themselves, we can’t just remove them on your say so.
I expect that is a significant part of the mess in voter rolls, but it’s not a big risk for voter fraud as I see it.
REAL ID’s already indicate citizenship.
My desire is to change the very concept of “voter registration”. There would be no “voter registration” in the traditional sense. All citizens would automatically be eligible to vote in the location represented on their REAL ID compliant Voter ID. Since you have an address election precincts would still have indicator of how many people in a precinct can be expected to vote.
The flip is that when you sign in to vote the election official checks to see if voter eligibility has been suspended. If not, “Thank you sir here is your ballot.”
REAL ID compliant systems would be interlinked so that changing address are inherently already part of the system. Change the address inside a state and your voting precinct automatically changes. Move to another state and get a new ID and it links back to the old state to end the old ID. Have your franchise removed and it is contained in a cross state data warehouse so attempting to vote in any state will pop the disenfranchisement to the election official.
WW
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Really? I had thought you were one that supported ID requirements for voting.
WuWei
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Some states issue DLs to people who aren’t eligible to vote. Not everybody gets a DL.
However all DL and State Voting ID’s can show citizenship status just like Virginia and other states are doing now under REAL ID.
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Guvnah
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I’d be all for an automated voter registration (or authorization) that depends on an ID format that can be validated and is accurate. We have the technology. And as noted before, it could track and update an individual’s residence so that changing precincts (for example) will be automatically updated. It could also contain USA citizenship (or not).
Big hurdle with this will be with half the nation opposing an ID to vote. Especially one that records a person’s citizenship status.
I suppose that for mail-in ballots, the ballot would have to contain the ID number to be valid. (Right now in Colorado, for example, a mail in ballot enclosure (not the ballot itself) must be signed, and all signatures are supposedly matched against the signature on the initial voter registration card. This is a highly manual process, and the proposed ID approach would allow that to be automated.
I think that this would be a reasonable way to resolve the impasse.
