With the big election in the USA coming closer, I often read the terms “registered voter” or appeals to “register to vote”. How does that work?
Here in Germany you simply get a letter a few weeks before each election, telling you which voting location you are assigned to and on the election day you simply go there, show your ID (Personalausweis) and you can vote.
Why isn’t it that easy in the USA?
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This is bonkers.
In Poland, every citizen is automatically eligible to vote, at a polling station near last registered place of residence (usually a local public school, or government building) – unless you wish to make other arrangements, like voting in different than default district, mail-in ballot, and in special cases – voting by proxy and for especially sick or elderly, they literally bring in voting urn to you.
How the fuck can you have a functional democracy system, if people have to jump through hoops just to be able to exercise their franchise?
Just enroll everyone automatically, it’s not like government doesn’t have this data already – if they want to make use of it – good for them, if not, the ballot remains blank.
“Country of freedom”, my ass.
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