Discussion for article #246984
I dunno… motor/voter is a good start but how do you get people who don’t have a driver’s license? library card app… utility sign up? would Comcast or ATT register people that sign up for cable?
sign them up in high school and somehow let their/our registration follow wherever you live?
just thinking out loud…
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This is similar to voter registration in Israel, but because it’s tied to your national ID card. A few weeks before every election, i receive a postcard telling me where to show up, but if for some reason you don’t get the card, you call a number (easily found in papers or calling city services) to find the address. And we have the day off to ensure that people who need to travel to a different city, can do so without undue hardship (i.e. many students’ adresses are their parents although they might be going to school in a different city). I might not like the direction this country’s headed but i make damn sure to vote!
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How about tying it to your S S number? Automatically registered for life no matter where you move…
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maybe… but SSN isn’t supposed to be used for things like that… gets too close to national identity card…
how about cell phone numbers? they follow you forever and almost everyone has one and it would help the pollsters actually do their job…
Don’t vote, don’t bitch over results.
No, I threw my cell against a wall over 15 years ago and will never get another. Correction, I did get one because my daughter was unhappy that I did not have a means to communicate when on the road. However, I spend $3.50 per month for a total of 35 minutes with T-Mobile and even then don’t use more than 5 or 10 minutes a month. I continue to insist the need for minute-by-minute communication is a fool’s choice.
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I felt the same way and I worked in the telecom world for 20 years… companies that made the radios for the cell towers…
but… I have a chronic illness and it occurred to me when I was out walking the dogs one day that they weren’t likely to act like Lassie if I had a problem… they weren’t gonna go for help… they were more likely to stay and guard and since one is a Wolfhound and the other is a mastiff I figured I needed a phone and gave in… I’ve used about as much as you seem to over the last 10 years but I still have it…
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Automatic voter registration need to be addressed by a constitutional amendment.
Agreed. We are becoming less self-reliant because of those things.
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The Federal Government never had much problem identifying who was turning 18 when there was a draft, and that didn’t depend on whether you wanted to drive or not. Today Google, Facebook etc, know thousands of your personal details, so identifying the true eligible voter pool is no administrative challenge. In other words, this movement to broaden the voter pool is only a start. How many of the 80 million-or-so unregistered potentially eligible voters into the system waits to be seen. Ultimately, mandatory registration at voting age like in most advanced countries should be the way to go. One piece of evidence that might allay GOP fears that mandatory registration and voting tends to benefit liberal parties is the rise of Tony “Climate Change is Absolute Crap” Abbott to the post of PM in Australia. He makes Rick Perry look like Einstein, This raises the counter-argument that our voter registration hurdles are an intentional design feature to protect us not from poor minority voters but some idiot named “We the People.”
Follow you forever? I’ve had nine different cell phone numbers. I currently have two cell phone numbers and my husband has three. Do we get five votes?
of course… you’re Republicans right?
Every dollar should get one vote.