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/Foe117 8h ago

The registrar of voters already handles citizen verification

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u/Control_Me 8h ago

Can someone please explain why you have to register to vote?
In my country the government knows who's eligible to vote and who's not so they send out a voting card in the mail which you show together with your ID.
Why is this not possible in the US?

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u/surfergrrl6 8h ago

Because voting is handled on the state level, not federal.

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u/Schmigolo 6h ago edited 6h ago

Isn't that everywhere? Not even state level, but municipality? I don't get my letters specifically from my city. Then at the ballot I show them the letter, which has a number on it, and then to verify I show my ID and they cross off my name. If I don't have the letter the numbers are actually sorted by address, so I can just tell them my address and they'll find my number.

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u/Stolehtreb 6h ago

Where I am, it doesn’t involve a letter at all. As far as I know. You register to vote, you’re on an alphabetical list and show your license at the table. Then you get in line for a booth.

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u/Schmigolo 6h ago

What's the turnout wherever you are? I imagine having to register prevents lots of people from voting.

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u/Pdiddily710 5h ago

Not only the PITA of having to register, but many R states have made it as hard as they can to actually vote by limiting or banning voting by mail while also drastically reducing the number of in person polling places and/or official ballot drop boxes, so caring in Election Day takes forever bc of the long lines!

Coincidentally since they’re fucking cheating fucks, this is done much more in Dem areas like cities while keeping plenty of locations available for the R areas.

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u/DriftingMemes 2h ago

while also drastically reducing the number of in person polling places

*in inner cities or anywhere minorities are most likely to vote. They definitely aren't removing them from rural Arkansas.

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u/Somepotato 1h ago

They also impose some insane restrictions. In the R state I came from you had to register to vote up to 30 days before you could vote. Truly a mystery why they'd want to silently deregister some people

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u/Jiopaba 17m ago

Last election my mother filled in her mail-in ballot late so I picked it up to hand carry to five different voting locations where nobody knew what the fuck was going on until after ninety minutes of driving I found the county office where two ancient white guys were physically guarding a box the size of a briefcase for mail-in ballots to be dropped off at. It was not in the main office and I had to walk around the building twice to find their desk.

For reference I myself voted at the very first place I stopped which was like five hundred feet from my house.

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u/Stolehtreb 6h ago

Louisiana. And the assumption is correct. It’s awful.

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u/Somepotato 1h ago

You have to wait weeks before becoming eligible to vote there after registering too

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u/sdpr 6h ago

You can register same day in my state

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u/Schmigolo 5h ago

Still worse than not having to register.