This should be implemented everywhere, especially in red states, where the right to vote is under attack.

K&R

They are supposed to change their licenses, but you never know.

where the dl address is. What would be nice with electronic voting machines would be able to go anywhere in the state and pop in your drivers license and the ballot for your precinct would pop up, you vote and the fact that your dl has voted. Which would mean you could not vote again.

universal voting machine app. It should be simple to write, the ones that are hard are the programs that can be manipulated. My spec would be that it would fetch the ballot for the voter (wherever in the country they are registered), display ballot, take input, and return the reponses to the local from which they received the ballot. Maybe keep a record, but the main thing would be get the ballot info and return results in real time over secure connection. This is important as most of the fraudulent voting have been fro massaging the results based upon how many people voted for x or y or z and changing the votes to reflect that x always has 10% more than y and z totaled. Easy math. But if totals are not kept in the machine but in a certified server in each state and that severs software never changes for the election and the raw data that comes in from each voting machine can be verified. things would wok out.

Think of the voting machines as a dumb terminal like used to be used on main frame computers. Everything would be transaction based much like ATM machines are.

Simple as pie. someone has to do it.

does the work, it will happen. Since There is a federal system that can access all the drivers license info and then a central system, it would be hard to manipulate an election since nothing can be done at a local level to change the election. It works for ATMs and debit cards and credit cards, no reason not to work for elections.

We as a country just have to decide to have fair elections.

totally takes the overseeing of elections out of the peoples hands and places that control in corporate hands

look at the software problem with vw

if we are ever to have free and fair elections local control, supervised by local citizens is the only answer

the system you describe would be a "trust me system",much as we have now but bigger and worse

California needs to be one of the first primary states.

each four year so the first states would be different each cycle.

Thanks for the thread, IDemo.

I wish Oregon would do that.

"California joins Oregon as the only two states to proactively register people to vote unless they decline."

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Someone did something right! They did something in the interest of the people and democracy! Shocking! Yay!

At voting age.

It would save millions to the states, save time, travel and lots of effort to those that need an ID to vote. Let's make America a real Democracy and give everyone the right to vote. How about it Republican Governors?

If you can beaver that!

Something to do with the color?

... then fantastic

I mention this as a permanent resident.... here in NC I've been summoned to perform jury duty... which I would be happy to do but as a non citizen I am not legally permitted to do so. Happened twice. Why did this happen? The county pulls the records from the state's driver's license database.

About the right level for you.

sounds legit.

Have we been properly introduced? You certainly have developed an opinion of me. Is it "me"? or "us"?

Pretty much voter turnout's dropped as we've gone from one-day in-person voting only at your home-precinct with long waiting periods to quick turnaround, extended voting, mail-in and provisional voting, and with early voting at any precinct in the jurisdiction.

As we've made voting easier and easier, people value voting less and less. The usual complaint is to point to minor roll-backs in the ocean swell of "making things easier," missing the primeval forest for the stray twig blocking our view.

(While, at the same time, hearing complaints about "low information voters" and such, coupled with calls for coerced voting.)

We could all learn from one.

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If you can't be bothered enough to register yourself then you don't deserve to vote.

and if you can't drag your ass to the registrar's office you're not involved enough in our democracy and don't deserve to exercise that "right".

and at the rate you're going, seeming to act as though you want a fifth.

you knew that.

nice try at trying to make others think you didn't.

So my hides are not shown on my profile pages. You know that.

which is public.

Wrong answer. No problem, internet stalking is no crime until you start making threats but it is strange.

right here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=243381

me clicking that little icon next to your name, in your post, is not stalking.

The authorities have hidden some of his posts, so that discredits everything he says? That is an absolutely fascist mind-set.

Unusual for a so called liberal group, well I used to think it was .

Insulting and irrelevant.

blame the truth.

The issue isn't truth; it's validity. To make a logical point, your conclusion must be relevant to the premises. So your post is a non sequitur.

But never mind. I don't expect you to understand any of that.

Your name has 2 in it. Are you the sequel to something?

Too bad, we like our state and the laws we pass.

Even if it means going hours or a day without pay? Even if it means getting fired?

Persons with mobility issues should go through the time and expense to get themselves to the clerk's office instead of availing themselves of reasonable, verifiable alternatives like the new CA law?

Think about.

in the developed world, not the exception.

Voter registration is automatic in (partial list):

Chile
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
France
Iceland
India
Israel
Italy
Norway
Sweden

We already have early voting, vote-by-mail on request (and anyone can sign up to be a permanent mail voter), voter applications available at the DMV, post offices and libraries, sample ballots sent out to all registered voters telling them where their polling places are, among other things - and people still can't be bothered.