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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Some addition to this:
>show your ID (Personalausweis) and you can vote.
because some (US) people on reddit got hung up on that last time I mentioned that.
As far as I can remember here in germany, I never actually needed to show my ID during voting. You just need to show the vote notice. It tells you to bring your ID, but in fact it will only ever be needed if there is any confusion about your identity, or you lost your vote notice.
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