• jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    The way it works here is you register when getting a drivers license, then if you move or something, when you update your DL information, you update your voter registration.

    Same thing for DL renewals and such.

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      See thats exactly what the executive order prevents. You can’t be registered automatically, a person would have to provide proof of citizenship every election cycle if this gets enforced.

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          So you would need to renew your drivers license every single election cycle, I just explained that like 3 comments ago.

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            No, once you’re registered, you need do nothing else unless your address changes. Just like with a normal voter registration.

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              Alright but thats not a solution to the problem presented, and even has little to nothing to do with the topic of this post.

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                The problem presented is Republicans being dicks by requiring citizenship to vote.

                We already solve that problem by:

                1. Requiring citizenship for drivers licenses.
                2. Registering people to vote when they get a drivers license.
                3. Then mailing ballots to all registered voters.

                This increases voter registration (which Republicans don’t want) an increases voter participation (which Republicans DEFINITELY don’t want.)

                Oregon had already been doing #3 since 2000, they added #1 and #2 in 2016.

                Voter registration surged to 94%.
                Voter participation jumped to 80%.

                This is malicious compliance with what the Republicans are asking for.

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                  Then people would need to renew their drivers license every election, sometimes multiple times per year. That’s why any compliance with this shitty order a bad idea, it would lower turnout. I already told you that.

                  What Oregon did was automatically mail everyone a ballot unless they opted out, but under the new executive order, if enforced, that would be deemed illegal/unlawful unless each and every eligible voter registered and provided physical proof of citizenship at that time, which is logistically impossible at that scale.

                  I’m going to stop replying to you, enjoy sending me the last word in short order.

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                    No, they don’t, that’s not the way it works.

                    Once you are registered, you are registered, you only have to re-register if you change your address.

                    If you change your address, you also have to update your drivers license and… ding… it updates your registration.