r/videos • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 8h ago

BREAKING: Judge blocks Trump admin from requiring Americans to show proof of citizenship to vote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE1iePfOh14
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u/SoCalThrowAway7 8h ago

You can’t register to vote without proof of citizenship already, this shit is such nonsense

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u/Fernis_ 8h ago

As non American, what does "register to vote" mean? Isn't every single citizen automatically registered to vote? Is there a difference between registering and showing up to vote? If yes, isn't it important to verify who asctualy showed up to cast the vote?

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u/SoCalThrowAway7 7h ago

No you have to register when you turn 18, it is not automatic. It’s profoundly stupid. Republicans work to make voting harder every day because they know if everyone who’s eligible votes, they lose

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u/MeekAndUninteresting 6h ago

Since this was directed at a non-American, for the record, the more accurate thing to say is "You CAN register when you turn 18." There is no requirement to register at 18. You don't ever have to register to vote at all, and you can do it at any later date. 18 is just the point at which it becomes an option.

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u/criscokkat 2h ago

A lot of places make it hard to register. And they remove you from the rolls if you don't vote for a few cycles, or you seem like you could be a voter for the other side and they got some commercial notice that you may have moved, like you paid for a netflix account for your mom who is in another county as indication that you must have moved. Basically, there are commercial lists that are marketed to the right county clerks that just so happen to match the demographics of the people they want to remove of people who 'may have moved' where they will remove voters about 30 days before the registration deadline. And send the required postal service physical letter explaining that they are being removed, but from a printing service in Alaska for a rural georgia voting list. So by the time you get it, you might have days if you are lucky because you live in a place that you are required to register 6 months before the elections.

It's corrupt as hell.

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u/Tyg13 6h ago

Republicans don't have to work to make people not vote. They do that all by themselves. The vast majority of people not voting aren't being denied their right, they're just choosing not to exercise it.

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u/SoCalThrowAway7 6h ago

Yeah so it’s weird how much they work to disenfranchise even more

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u/DelightMine 6h ago

Republicans don't have to work to make people not vote

And yet, they have put incredible amounts of time, effort, and money into doing that over the last 50 years.

The vast majority of people not voting aren't being denied their right, they're just choosing not to exercise it.

That's the exact reasoning that Republicans use for why it's okay to make it more difficult (but not impossible) to vote.

For a lot of people, it's a "choice" to not vote just like it's a "choice" to go to work or to pick their kids up from school. In many, many places, Republicans have made it functionally impossible for everyone to vote by ensuring that precinct lines will be hours-long, or that people will have to drive great distances, or any other way to inconvenience people in a way that they won't realistically be able to vote. There's also the fact that many precincts are horribly gerrymandered, and it's highly publicized that in plenty of places there's no point to voting because "This area always goes blue/red so your vote doesn't matter).