Where I live, your name and residential address is confirmed by a registrar before you are given the ballot paper. This prevents duplicity or incorrect voting. If you live in a new area but failed to update you previous residential address, therefore can’t be found, you vote under the old address and area once they can find you in that registry. If no details match or can be found, you don’t get to vote.
Not accounting for queue time, the former takes a minute, the latter takes about three as you have to go to another part of the booths where other national registrars attempt to locate and confirm you.
We don’t n have a national registrar. Elections are administered independently by each state.
Since 2022, in response to conservative conspiracy theories about it working on behalf of the Democratic Party, many republican leaning states (including Texas) withdrew from the
interstate voter registration verification program that cross checks the voter rolls of the member states against each other to see verify who has moved or died, etc.
Oh, we do have state and local registries, but they pull off the federal if it can’t be confirmed. You can also change details in federal and have them push it down the chain.
In Louisiana, they mail me voting cards of people who haven’t lived here in 25 years and are surely dead. But in fairness, the police also don’t care about laws so it evens out. Free and fair elections don’t matter if laws aren’t enforced anyway.
In addition to the other post, people also can vote by postal mail in some cases. Whilst registration requirements and checks exist, it’s not done (at least for the state in which I vote) at the time I send my ballot… though I do have to sign a sworn statement and fill out additional info in the event something changed since registering (and it might be disqualified for not doing it in advance; I’m not 100% clear on it).
Trying to get my ballot from rural Japan to rural (US-state-name-here) in and of itself can be a logistical challenge (particularly during corona); I can’t imagine having to go all the way to Tokyo and queue at the embassy or something as that would cost a fortune in time and money.
Where I live, your name and residential address is confirmed by a registrar before you are given the ballot paper. This prevents duplicity or incorrect voting. If you live in a new area but failed to update you previous residential address, therefore can’t be found, you vote under the old address and area once they can find you in that registry. If no details match or can be found, you don’t get to vote.
Not accounting for queue time, the former takes a minute, the latter takes about three as you have to go to another part of the booths where other national registrars attempt to locate and confirm you.
We don’t n have a national registrar. Elections are administered independently by each state.
Since 2022, in response to conservative conspiracy theories about it working on behalf of the Democratic Party, many republican leaning states (including Texas) withdrew from the interstate voter registration verification program that cross checks the voter rolls of the member states against each other to see verify who has moved or died, etc.
Oh, we do have state and local registries, but they pull off the federal if it can’t be confirmed. You can also change details in federal and have them push it down the chain.
In Louisiana, they mail me voting cards of people who haven’t lived here in 25 years and are surely dead. But in fairness, the police also don’t care about laws so it evens out. Free and fair elections don’t matter if laws aren’t enforced anyway.
It’s not about who votes. It’s about who counts them.
In addition to the other post, people also can vote by postal mail in some cases. Whilst registration requirements and checks exist, it’s not done (at least for the state in which I vote) at the time I send my ballot… though I do have to sign a sworn statement and fill out additional info in the event something changed since registering (and it might be disqualified for not doing it in advance; I’m not 100% clear on it).
Trying to get my ballot from rural Japan to rural (US-state-name-here) in and of itself can be a logistical challenge (particularly during corona); I can’t imagine having to go all the way to Tokyo and queue at the embassy or something as that would cost a fortune in time and money.