It's September 5th!
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It's September 5th!
Hey US people, please remember to check your voter registration every *5th* between now and November!
July 5th
August 5th
September 5th
October 5th
November 5thCheck your voter registration for free online here:
You can also request your mail in ballot, so that you don't have to stand in line for hours or miss work on voting day.
Why check every month? Because some of y'all have been de-registered.
Re-register!
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@mekkaokereke Done! Although I went directly to the state SoS site using links at the bottom of that site, rather that submit my name, address, etc.
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@tehstu @mekkaokereke Yes. I don’t want some unknown site to have my email/phone number when I can just go to https://vote.gov/ which will direct me to my state’s voter registration system.
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Katherine Wreplied to mekka okereke :verified: last edited by
AND, check your state's voter registration deadline--in Oregon, you have to be registered 21 days before the scheduled election. To vote in the November 5th election, be sure you have registered by October 15th!
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Janne Ojaniemireplied to mekka okereke :verified: last edited by
@mekkaokereke I’m in Finland. Everyone is automatically registered to vote the moment they turn 18. As long as they are alive and citizens, they are never “deregistered”. When elections roll around, everyone is mailed information and instructions about the elections, as well as all needed paperwork in case people want to vote in advance.
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Paul-Vincent Roll (he/him)replied to Janne Ojaniemi last edited by
@Janne_O @mekkaokereke same in Germany - it’s seems so strange to me how the US is doing it. We also vote on work free days so everyone has the chance to go.
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Brian Hawthornereplied to Paul-Vincent Roll (he/him) last edited by
@paul @Janne_O @mekkaokereke The USA is 50 individual states with a federal government that has limited powers (the biggest perhaps being national sovereignty in foreign relations). In terms of things like voting, you need to compare the USA to the EU, not an individual nation-state like Germany.
Is this a smart way to handle voting? Absolutely not. But unless we rewrite our entire constitution with a constitutional convention or a bunch of constitutional amendments, that’s the system we have.
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Paul-Vincent Roll (he/him)replied to Brian Hawthorne last edited by
@bhawthorne @janneoksanen @mekkaokereke Germany is made up of 16 states and we are also a federal government. Not the same as in the US but I don’t think your comparison with the EU is completely accurate.
I also get why it made sense historically but today it does seems strange to an outside perspective but I get it is hard / nearly impossible to change.
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mekka okereke :verified:replied to Paul-Vincent Roll (he/him) last edited by
@paul @bhawthorne @janneoksanen
Racism. The only reason the US clings to this foolishness, is racism.
It's not that hard to organize Federal elections. The us having 50 states is not a real obstacle.
It's intentionally made more complicated for "states rights" until you ask the obvious question, "States' right to do what?" The answer is almost always, "To be way more racist to Black people than the federal government allows."
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Helma 🤗replied to mekka okereke :verified: last edited by
@mekkaokereke In the Netherlands everyone over 18 automatically receives a voting certificate for every election which you take with you when you vote and show your ID. No registration required. Why is that so different in the USA, I wonder? I hinestly don't know.
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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:replied to Helma 🤗 last edited by
@helma Same as in the UK: a deep seated resistance to have/carry ID. Most normal European folks have a passport and are registered, because that's obviously very normal. In the US/UK that is very different. @mekkaokereke