Why is voter registration not automatic for every American citizen of age like in any other democratic country?
🎶 Voter supression is the way parties stay in power! 🎶
That explains a lot.
I just show up at the polling station (which is established in a nearby school for my convenience), present my ID, and they let me vote.
Also, why do felons lose their voting rights, even after they’re released?
They’re still citizens, they’re still impacted by the laws and policies of the government, even more so than the average citizen. My country has polling stations in prisons.
Even the guy who assassinated the Prime Minister can vote.
Oh that reminds me, Election Day is a national day-off.
New Zealand has a period of something like two weeks before “Election Day” where you can go and vote. I was working on Election Day but it wasn’t a problem, I went into a polling station and made a special vote.
The sheer amount of voter suppression in America (and I suspect other places but America is the one being discussed here) is…something.