• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    So you would need to renew your drivers license every single election cycle, I just explained that like 3 comments ago.

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      5 days ago

      No, once you’re registered, you need do nothing else unless your address changes. Just like with a normal voter registration.

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        5 days ago

        Alright but thats not a solution to the problem presented, and even has little to nothing to do with the topic of this post.

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          5 days ago

          The problem presented is Republicans being dicks by requiring citizenship to vote.

          We already solve that problem by:

          1. Requiring citizenship for drivers licenses.
          2. Registering people to vote when they get a drivers license.
          3. Then mailing ballots to all registered voters.

          This increases voter registration (which Republicans don’t want) an increases voter participation (which Republicans DEFINITELY don’t want.)

          Oregon had already been doing #3 since 2000, they added #1 and #2 in 2016.

          Voter registration surged to 94%.
          Voter participation jumped to 80%.

          This is malicious compliance with what the Republicans are asking for.

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            5 days ago

            Then people would need to renew their drivers license every election, sometimes multiple times per year. That’s why any compliance with this shitty order a bad idea, it would lower turnout. I already told you that.

            What Oregon did was automatically mail everyone a ballot unless they opted out, but under the new executive order, if enforced, that would be deemed illegal/unlawful unless each and every eligible voter registered and provided physical proof of citizenship at that time, which is logistically impossible at that scale.

            I’m going to stop replying to you, enjoy sending me the last word in short order.

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              5 days ago

              No, they don’t, that’s not the way it works.

              Once you are registered, you are registered, you only have to re-register if you change your address.

              If you change your address, you also have to update your drivers license and… ding… it updates your registration.

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                  4 days ago

                  Tell me you’ve never registered to vote without telling me you’ve never registered to vote.

                  I’ve been voting since 1987 and that’s EXACTLY how it works.

                  You register ONCE. Unless something changes, you do not have to re-register.

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                    4 days ago

                    Your registration was being done automatically for every election. Registration is done for every election.