Link: https://www.vote.org/am-i-registered-to-vote/
Warning: you will get texted so use your disposal number.
With all the news about citizens discovering their voter status has been lapsed, and new rules for being a voter, everyone should check.
But also, sometimes you forget. I have new neighbors who finished moving a month ago, and when I asked if they changed their mailing address and checked their voting status, we discovered they weren’t.
It is wild to me that in the US you’re not automatically registered to vote. The idea that you have to go through a manual process to exert one of your most basic constitutional rights is unfathomable to me.
Here when you turn 18 you can just vote. It’s that simple. No registration, no ticking a checkbox somewhere, you can simply go out there and vote the moment you’re 18.
In the USA many states work very hard to remove voters’ registration and voting locations so the folks they don’t want voting can’t place their votes.
You just have to stop thinking the US is an actual democracy and everything will make sense (or rather you will understand why nothing makes sense)
I have a brother in Oregon, they auto register there.
We’re the oldest democracy in the world and as such are likely the most poorly designed.
Is Greece that bad politically?
Their comment is based on this criteria:
Source https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/08/countries-are-the-worlds-oldest-democracies/
For anyone interested: the prehistoric origin of democracy, ie before the Greeks, is also interesting
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_democracy
It’s been a proto-democracy for so long, that it has become a pseudo-democracy.