In Canada we have the same thing. You can every year when filling taxes tick off a box to update your voter info to save you the work. You also can register at the voting booth with ID, or proof of residence, or the statement of a registered voter in the area willing to vouch for you.
Basically zero voter fraud.
Voter ID and registration laws are pure voter suppression!
Voter ID and registration laws are pure voter suppression!
Indeed. I’m in Canada too so that’s why this is familiar to you. As an anecdote, I don’t drive and have no license. Once, a long time ago, an election worker was kind of insisting that I had to show one to vote. I had the other required documents and was able to vote but not having a diver’s license apparently made them suspicious. And that was my biggest hurdle with providing ID at an election!
Lots of comments can be read about people not going to vote, some even blaming them for the election results, but it’s just incredible how difficult they seem to make voting in the US.
I get ‘no passport’ because Flatlanders especially don’t travel. I get ‘no DL’ because city rats don’t drive. No health card?!? I’ve had a health number since birth, and it’s been my gov id forever.
In Canada we have the same thing. You can every year when filling taxes tick off a box to update your voter info to save you the work. You also can register at the voting booth with ID, or proof of residence, or the statement of a registered voter in the area willing to vouch for you.
Basically zero voter fraud.
Voter ID and registration laws are pure voter suppression!
Indeed. I’m in Canada too so that’s why this is familiar to you. As an anecdote, I don’t drive and have no license. Once, a long time ago, an election worker was kind of insisting that I had to show one to vote. I had the other required documents and was able to vote but not having a diver’s license apparently made them suspicious. And that was my biggest hurdle with providing ID at an election!
Lots of comments can be read about people not going to vote, some even blaming them for the election results, but it’s just incredible how difficult they seem to make voting in the US.
https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=vot&dir=ids&document=index&lang=e
You can literally show up buck naked and have your next door neighbour vouch for you.
If anyone is prevented from voting, they should make a report regardless of if they think it was right or not.
Look at that list of acceptance ID, literally a pill bottle and your work issued ID will count as two pieces.
In Canada, though, everyone has Some form of gov ID, if even just a health card (from the gov, With your pic and address).
Many, many Americans don’t have ID.
Also. “Real ID” is another animal, not produced in all regions, barely usable, a mess. If they’re demanding “real ID” the challenges will be exciting.
No not really, a bunch of us Canadians don’t have ID and there are alternate criteria to register
Okay. Now I’m agape.
No health card? How do you get broken arms fixed?
I get ‘no passport’ because Flatlanders especially don’t travel. I get ‘no DL’ because city rats don’t drive. No health card?!? I’ve had a health number since birth, and it’s been my gov id forever.
Honestly: how can that be?
You can go to the ER without documents, you would just need to sort out the bills later
There are a bunch of reasons someone might lose access to their documents, that shouldn’t interfere with their right to vote.