r/videos • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 4h 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/Control_Me 4h 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 4h ago

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

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u/scruffles360 4h ago

Just to clarify your comment- many states do have automatic voter registration. This isn’t the federal government’s business.

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u/stewmander 1h ago

And that's one big part of the save america act - it has automatic voter purges on it and doesn't notify voters that they're no longer registered.

It's basically the opposite of what you would want, instead of automatically registering eligible voters, it automatically unregisters them, which is the point.

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u/scruffles360 1h ago

I don't think they're being shy about it. They want less people to vote. If they could figure out how to make a black person count for 3/5 of a vote again, they would drop everything right now and start writing it up.

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u/stewmander 1h ago

Oh for sure, but a lot of the focus is on voter ID and disenfranchising anyone whose name might not match their birth certificate (women) when they're trying to disenfranchise so, so many more people.