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Originally Posted by Cimarron29414
All valid points.
I believe one has a moral obligation in America to keep up with who you are voting for and why. Yes, it is illegal to qualify voters through testing. However, every election, some dumbass pulls the handle and cancels out your well-informed vote. Don't know how to fix it, I just think it sucks. I don't mind someone like you, dippin, dc_dux, or roachboy canceling me out, because at least I know that it's a well informed vote (all assuming we would vote opposite on the issue, of course.) It's the dumbass that bugs me.
As for the voter registration influence issue, it's a weak argument - I know. I just have this vision of the "hey, I'll give you a pack of smokes to go pull the handle. What's that you say, you're not registered? No problem, sign here please."
It would have been interesting to see if you could have voted in your old district, seeing as how your license was in your new address. Where I live, you can bring your license only and they can "look you up." While waiting in line and watching, it seems most people vote that way rather than the registration card.
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Utah never sent me an updated license so it has my old address (though the DMV has my correct address). Also according to Utah law your license does not need to match your voting address as long as you live at the address you are voting at (probably because they don't send you an updated license or a sticker to put on your old one with your new address).
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Originally Posted by spindles
The issue I can see with this one is that your actual vote would be tied to your registration. In a secret ballot (which most democratic elections are), this opens up a can of worms in relation to the privacy of the vote.
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They have already addressed these issues with absentee voting. Basically your vote goes in a sealed envelope which is then placed inside another envelope containing your registration information. Once your registration is verified your sealed ballot goes into a pile of other uncounted sealed ballots, which are then all opened together.
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Originally Posted by aceventura3
I don't even know how it is Constitutional for a person over 18 to be denied the right to vote registered or not.
LII: Constitution
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Actually those two amendments say that a person cannot be denied a vote because of their age, or because of their race, etc. There actually doesn't seem to be an explicit constitutional right to vote, at least I tried to find that information earlier but I could not.
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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
In Canada, we have same-day registration.
Also, if you have a change of address, you can still vote with a valid piece of ID.
Either way, I think registration is important to avoid voter fraud.
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Has there been any documented increase in fraud due to same day registration?
Also in regards to earlier claims of uninformed voters, it would seem to be statistically uniformed voters are likely to vote evenly across all issues (minus biases due to candidate names and ballot placement).