The fact that electors physically exist as real people is still insane to me. If a state has winner takes all for their electoral votes, why does a group of random people have to then travel to DC to cast a vote. It’s not 1800 when the outcome of a state’s election needed to travel via horseback to the capitol.
So if I moved to your town, how would the people at the polls know I was a legal resident?
This is the real best answer, I think. If they can put a check box in the driver’s license application, they can spam it in a whole bunch of other spots.
Not everyone does taxes, either, but there are certainly way more automatic spots you could try to catch people. Between that and automatic mailed ballots, we could really increase voting.
I do also wish all states had open primaries. It seems really dumb that I have to link myself to a party that I dont like to try to select the least bad candidate.
In the US, at least, there are no standard, state-issued IDs. Driver’s licenses largely fill that role, but as others have noted, not everyone drives (and not everyone who drives has an up-to-date license).
When you cast a vote, how do they know you are eligible to vote there? The answer is that you registered at some point, though they may not have called it that
That’s not a separate thing in a lot of states like I noted. Part of getting a driver’s license is just proving to the government where you live, and thats what registering to vote is.
Requiring a license to operate a motor vehicle is what’s suppressing the vote, not the idea that at some point before you cast a vote, you have to tell the government where you live.
I’m not saying it’s necessarily a bad thing, just that it’s literally the same thing as registering to vote.
Yeah, there’s also a bit of a difference in that voting is connected to where you live, while selective service registration doesnt really matter where you live, just that you exist (and are male). They can find you if they need to.
Also, I’ve lived in multiple states with “automatic voter registration”, and it’s really a misnomer. All it is is an extra check box when you get a driver’s license, so registration is: 1) not happening if you dont have a driver’s license, 2) not happening if you choose not to check the box.
I’ve made this rant before, but every country has voter registration somehow. Even Australia where you are required to vote, it’s still on the individual to enroll and update their enrollment whenever they move. Similarly, I’ve had Dutch people tell me they dont have to register to vote, and this is also not true because they have to register to exist at whatever address they live at, and voting registration is conferred along with that.
Some places let you prove you can vote when you go to the polling location, but that’s still effectively the same thing.
The only way for it to be truly automatic is if you live in a microstate that doesnt have multiple voting districts, or the government surveils you to keep track of where you live.
I’m assuming that changes what it actually displays, but is there confirmation that those data dont enter the notification system on the back end?
I really need to try actually doing that one of these days.
It’s literally Mali. Having alternate country codes is just a way to take advantage of countries with less of a presence on the internet to be able to get better domain names and at a lower price. .ml specifically was given away for free.
The worst, I think, is .io since the profits of those domains should go to the chagossians, but it just goes to the British government.
This is the right answer. “Opposition leader” or a “shadow cabinet” are not meaningful terms in American politics. It’s like asking who the President of the UK is.
You could go for somewhat equivalent congressional roles like House/Senate minority leaders, or you could try to point to specific political figures that seem to be trying harder to oppose the regime who may or may not be in the federal government like governors, or people like the chair of the DNC.
Yellow jackets are generalist predators. As long as they aren’t making a nest somewhere real close to where you want to be, they are good at killing a whole lot of pests.
Palm oil actually takes up less land than other crops that can produce that type of oil.
I think this is a little bit of a false equivalence, though. A hectare of borneo jungle ≠ a hectare of Saskatchewan prairie. It’s probably an impossible thing to accurately calculate, but I’d like to see kind of control for ecological cost. E.g. is 1 hectare of borneo as important to the earth as 2 hectares of prairie?
It also seems a bit obvious that an ecosystem on the equator would be capable of greater production than one closer to the poles. It always bothers me when people compare like “x crop takes 2 times as much water as y crop” when crop x might be grown somewhere that water isnt an issue.
If you see “plant burger” and you are misled to think that it must be made of beef, that says a lot more about you than the manufacturer.
So the difference in the US is if you move to a different voting area, there’s nothing requiring you to report your location to the government, so they would have no way of knowing that you live there.