Matt Wilcox
Do Americans realise how absolutely insane the very concept of “purging a voter registration list” is? You have to *register to vote*? What are you even talking about?
Are you a citizen? Then you should automatically get a vote. There isn’t anything to administer. You live there. The government serves you; not you it. Voting isn’t supposed to be a privilege, or reward.
The obvious abuse vector that any system other than “all citizens vote” becomes is astounding.
Matt Wilcox
“Well what about XyZ?”
Did I stutter? *all* citizens. You all pay taxes, you all live together, choices made by gov effect all of you. So you all get a say. Automatically. Nothing should make any persons voice not count. Yes that includes criminals. ALL get a vote.
For a self proclaimed world leading democracy, so many of the systems in play seem very far removed from that bold claim and much more “keep the current rich white guys in power” encoded in the system as a whole.
Aslak Raanes
@mattwilcox also, people who have been or are in prison are citizens and should be able to vote
nabeards
@mattwilcox if I could one million x boost this, I would
Zalasur 🐸🇺🇦
@mattwilcox American here. 👋
I could not agree with this statement more.
SooJin 🐱🫖🧶😷⚽️
@mattwilcox Yes, many of us Americans realize how insane this is and do our best to fight it the only way we can, at the ballot box. Unfortunately, “only rich white guys” was encoded into the original constitution and has required fighting for every inch towards equity ever since.
Newer democracies have the benefit of learning from the original decision from the 18th century.
Edited: And this American doesn’t appreciate your tone implying we’re all idiots.
BlueDot🇺🇦
In other democratic countries (I hear), it's the responsibility of government to get citizens on the voter rolls. In the U.S., it's considered the responsibility of the citizen to register.
The American system makes no sense until it's seen as a vestige of the #JimCrow era, in which white supremacists were looking for ways to prevent formerly enslaved people from voting. Thus the default is "You can't vote."
Szymon Nowicki
@mattwilcox this exact thing if still count as cultural oddity of a country that doesn’t want any central citizens register.
What makes my eyes wide is that they don’t have campaign subventions and let people and even corporations donate fortunes for political campaigns. That is a big red flag based on what I learned in my whole school education.
J.D.FitzRoy 🏳️🌈🦾🎮🪬🏴☠️
@mattwilcox I also don't fully understand all of the anxiety around fraudulent voting. I doubt asylum seekers are actively out trying to defraud elections while avoiding ICE. I think it would be an interesting system that had open borders and allowed international stakeholders to participate in their elections.
Human 3500
@mattwilcox If the US elections were in any other western country, they'd want to be there monitoring them
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