Originally posted by raz-0 No, we give every citizen WHO REGISTERS the right to vote. Oddly enough, those places you can get a license? You can get state issued photo ID. Also oddly enough, due to the motor voter bill, you should be able to take care of registering to vote at the same time.
Hmm. How oppressively convenient.
Generally, you can, or should be, but voter registrations often expire, and occasionally, there's even a little intimidation about the process (ie, if you really need that driver's license and your name's Gonzalez, do you want that tied up in immigration, whoever you are? Bear in mind it's not always rational.)
There are a lot of ways in which requiring voter registration at *all* may be antiquated and unnecessary, in a computer age, where probably Amazon sellers get more information at a swipe than a voter roll can give. And I'd love to frustrate pollsters and pundits, anyway. Rather than frustrate *voters.* 'Registered voters' isn't always this 'will of the people,' in actuality, after all.
It's a small portion of the people, usually the most-motivated, and not always nobly.
'Voter suppression' is a real factor, if not the entire GOP *policy* at this point: Frustrate everyone with government.
Except regressives.
I mean, a gun license *better* be good enough credentials to vote on, but I figure they could check the little box that says, 'Yes, I'd like to register to vote while I'm here,' too.